Hello Pack, I hope you all have had a productive and enlightening week of prepping. This week we have had a host of good and bad things happen on our survival homestead. Tallulah, one of our Pygora fiber goats (in the center of the three white goats in the photo above) broke her leg. I am not sure how, and…
Water is one of life’s essentials, so it should certainly be part of your emergency stockpile, as well as your daily habit of staying hydrated. But, just how long can you store water for before it becomes dangerous? Purified water that’s stored in a properly sanitized container in cool, dry, and dark conditions can be kept for about 6 months.…
Hello Pack. We are in excited preparation for our trip to North Carolina to attend Prepper Camp. Our plan had been to go only as eager attendees, but that all changed last week. My prepping mentor, Rick Austin, who hosts Prepper Camp along with his lovely and prepper phenom of a wife Jane, invited me to be a presenter. I…
If you aren’t currently in the habit of regularly cleaning the lint from your dryer lint trap, it’s never too late to start. But don’t throw that dryer lint away! Find an easy way to collect it, and save it for later use. I keep a plastic bag right next to the dryer so I can put the lint directly…
Hello Pack. We have been making the most of the late summer cooler weather, and getting a lot of fence mending, firewood splitting, and other typical homesteading chores accomplished this week. We had to make our annual multiple pairs of work gloves purchase at Tractor Supply early this year. Either the gloves are less hardy than they used to be,…
The classic on-foot bug-out is a central part of many a prepper’s plans, be it across the plains or through the woods it seems the plotting and planning of an extended bug-out in the form of a hike is central to prepping in general. There is just one problem: an awful lot of preppers aren’t doing it! I mean to…
Hello Pack. We welcomed a new tribe member into the fold this week. The hard working bundle of furry cuteness featured above is Bear. He was not our puppy initially, but since he kept sleeping on the patio at our back door, eating at our house, and curling up in our lap every time we hopped onto an ATV, he…
Learning how to shoot a bow should be one of the top priorities on your survival plan. For some reason, picking up a bow often tends to intimitate folks far more than learning how to shoot a gun. Maybe it’s because aiming and shooting a firearm seems like a less complicated process than figuring out how to load and release…
Hello Pack. I hope you have all had a productive and educational week of prepping. There is so much going on in our country at this time, being prepared is even more important than ever … but I am sure y’all know that. Thankfully, more folks are being awakened to the need to at least stockpile food, water, and other…
Gasoline is one of those essentials that many preppers will choose to keep on hand as part of their survival stash. Considering it is absolutely essential for powering the vast majority of automobiles, smaller vehicles, generators and power tools this is prudent. Unfortunately, gasoline presents several challenges for the preppers who would store it for the long haul, namely that…