Hello, Pack. I hope everyone has had a productive and safe week of prepping. We have had a rare week around our survival homesteading retreat – nothing broke! The amphibious vehicle engine rebuild is still a work in progress, but all of the SUVs, trucks, ATVs, tractors, and machinery are all in full working order. Yes, I did just knock…
Hello fellow preppers. I has been a busy and surprisingly productive week here on our survival homesteading retreat. The surprise along the productivity front stems from tasks accomplished even though we got some rain – that of course generated even more mud, and had trouble with the tractor battery….again. Our wood shed is now not only completely full, we have…
It has been a week of rinse and repeat here on our survival homesteading retreat. I didn’t really focus on how long it takes to get the hay and firewood in each year until I started writing about it to share here with the pack. Weather and equipment issues (rinse and repeat…again) plagued some of our efforts, but 90 percent…
It has been an incredibly busy time here on our survival retreat. We got more done over the weekend than we normally do in an entire week. Our tribe rocks! Ok, well, rocked before getting a brand new excavator (that only had 17 hours on it) stuck in the mud. In addition to building new roads into the woods to…
This recipe has been handed down in my family for generations, which each woman who tucked it away in her cookout altering it slightly along the way – until complete perfection was achieved. This is a vegetable-soup based recipe that uses up whatever grew in great abundance in your garden and is therefore filled with powerful nutrients to help you…
Well Pack, it was a week of frugality, functionality, and flooding here on our survival homesteading retreat. I could call it a three Fs kind of week, but thanks to the flooding and some barbed wire entangling, there was another F tossed about by a few of our tribe members during work details…but I won’t chat about those outbursts here.…
This has been a productive week of prepping here on our survival homesteading retreat. My Bobby and I took Monday off work for the Labor Day holiday, and used the time to get another pasture cut down and ready to go back into the rotation for fall and autumn medicinal herbs planted. We are blessed to have enough land to…
Medical preps are the most difficult aspect of any survival plan – and toothache remedies are not exception. Actually, it is usually a bit more difficult acquire a quality toothache and SHTF oral care and repair kit than it is to buy or assemble an emergency medical kit. Growing your own apothecary should be a top priority for all preppers.…
Harvesting and preserving time may be over, but there is still plenty of hot, sweaty, and dirty work going on here on our survival homesteading retreat. Our preps this week were primarily focused on moving downed trees that had been drying, chopping them up, and then splitting them to make firewood. Bobby and I had several “date nights” out enjoying…
The only hard part about making an oven out of a #10 can is finding a can actually still made out of metal. Once upon a time you could walk into any grocery store and buy a metal can of coffee, but plastic is king now and those days are gone. Boy Scouts have been making tin can cookers to…