You how it goes sometimes: You research a do-it-yourself topic like drip irrigation on the internet, it seems doable, so you ask some friends for advice, then buy a bunch of stuff and try and put it together …. Only… Continue Reading
Operational Security (OPSEC) is really, really hard for a motor-mouth like me to maintain, but it’s something we HAVE to do if we don’t want the whole town showing up on our doorstep if the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF).… Continue Reading
Train like you want to react in an emergency, because it could save your (and other people’s) life. Train like you want to react – an example When a bad guy charged the prepper, the prepper pulled out his handgun… Continue Reading
Prepper vs. hoarder — Do you remember how ammunition, especially .22LR, essentially disappeared from the shelves after Sandy Hook? Prior to Sandy Hook, some of us had stocked up on ammunition, just like we stock up on food and other… Continue Reading
Eliminate things? Cut back? It’s a hard thing, to get out the loppers and cut a perfectly decent limb off of a fruit tree. You can just see the fruit it might bear come fall! Of course, the way it’s angled it will… Continue Reading
Depression afflicts more than 10% of the population at some point in their life. Throw a lot of upheaval into people’s lives, and there’s likely to be a whole lot more. We here at 3BY are all about helping people… Continue Reading
This asset protection article was inspired by the reader JH who commented on Paranoid Prepper’s article PrepperNomics 107: A Look At Mutual Assistance Groups (MAG) Contracts. JH was part of a MAG that dissolved as part of an ownership dispute and… Continue Reading
Cables and gas lines run in a lot of places you might not expect, and preppers (along with everybody else) need to know where services cross our properties. Maybe your neighborhood’s gotten rough and you feel a need for a… Continue Reading
Don’t love gardening? I don’t. If you want a food prep that keeps on giving, year after year, in situations ranging from SHTF to ‘can’t afford produce’ though, start thinking about tree planting. Fruit and nut trees are a great… Continue Reading
Why are AR-15s so controversial? The rule here is no politics, but we are pro-2nd Amendment. I was asked to write a post on AR-15s explaining why they are both popular, and such a hot button with 2nd Amendment opponents. Since I… Continue Reading
When Ruger introduced to 10/22 takedown model, preppers and backpackers rejoiced. The venerable and well-loved 10/22 in a takedown configuration? What could be better than that? Like many preppers, I picked one up several years ago. My model of choice… Continue Reading
I hate punishing plants for growing well. Cutting grass. Pruning trees. Thinning plantings. In this podcast, Salty and I talk about the trees and garden plants. (Your HOA or other busy-body neighbors will be happy to explain why you need… Continue Reading
Paranoid Prepper recently wrote the article PrepperNomics 107: A Look At Mutual Assistance Groups (MAG) Contracts. A reader mentioned that the hard part is to figure out who to trust if your MAG is not family based. Trust Trust is probably… Continue Reading
Collecting Swarms – The Nuts And Bolts Of It One option that may be employed to collect swarms is the swarm “bait hive”. It is simply a box that is placed as an artificial nest cavity for bees. Prior to… Continue Reading
Starting your first hive or expanding your current colony numbers? Just getting started in beekeeping? One method of acquiring bees would be to capture a swarm. Although this may not be a guaranteed method of acquiring bees, it is one… Continue Reading