Prepping is insurance. You pay now — in money, time, and effort. You hope you won’t need most of what you paid for. How about a prep you put most of the work in up front, but it continues to… Continue Reading
I’ve been growing a vegetable garden for years, but it’s changed. Before prepping was on my mind, it was all about the yield: What I most wanted to eat, for the least work input. Now that I’m using it as… Continue Reading
Home food production is one of the most versatile preps. It serves every situation from ‘money’s tight’ to ‘there’s no food that can be bought’. It also is a stealth prep and one that offers benefits even if there’s no… Continue Reading
Take a look at most prepper storage foods and you notice a few things. Lots of chili and soups. Pasta and rice everywhere you look. Nothing fresh and very little green. Oh wait, what’s that? A handful of fresh, green… Continue Reading
Survival seed banks are good… but… Because there has to be a “but”, right? I recently read a good article on a very popular, well run prepper site which extolled the virtues of survival seed banks. It’s a good article,… Continue Reading
A year and a half ago I started an experiment on growing potatoes in a bin, touted as the most space-efficient way to grow food I’d ever heard of. When the first year’s crop was disappointing, I did some trouble-shooting… Continue Reading
The story is as old as human agriculture. You prepare, plant, carefully tend, watching the food come to perfection in the summer sun. You watch as the colors brighten and the fruits get fat and yielding. The last dawn breaks… Continue Reading
Seeds grow up and turn into plants. I know, hardly an earth-shattering concept, right? Here’s the thing, though… knowing seeds can be grown into plants in a greenhouse environment is one thing… actually learning the skills and techniques of doing… Continue Reading
Beets? Are those even a real food? Well, I’ve never eaten them much either. My garden is there in part to be a prepper’s experimental test bed though, so I’m trying some things so I can share the results with… Continue Reading
This is my third year watering gardens from drip irrigation systems, and I’ve been very pleased with it. It saves water, time, frustration. It stretches a dinky little half inch thunderstorm into two good waterings. Most importantly, it saves food… Continue Reading
Perennial plantings are the gift that keeps on giving to preppers. Put the work in now, reap the benefits from now on. Two such plants are a match made in heaven: They cooperate very well in the same bed, they… Continue Reading
In the first article of this series, we looked at why garlic is useful to a prepper — I mean, beyond being tasty and keeping away vampires. In this part (see Part 1 by clicking here), we look at how to… Continue Reading
Autumn Olive is one of the most controversial plants for people who forage for their food. On the one hand, it is an aggressive, invasive species that we all know should be killed on sight. On the other hand… it… Continue Reading
There’s all kinds of considerations to make when picking a homestead or bugout location. One of the things you need to consider is how well the soil can grow what you want to plant… with us, we knew we wanted… Continue Reading
If you’ve read much here at 3BY, it won’t surprise you to hear that Salty and I think gardens are a really valuable prep for many kinds of emergencies. Raised bed gardens are particularly productive, being filled with good soil… Continue Reading