Corn. I don’t know about where you live, but there is a lot of corn around here, any time of year. If you’re in the middle of the United States and not in a city, there’s probably a lot of corn… Continue Reading
Home food production is an important prepper ability. It’s also one that takes preparation on the front end, both in having materials and knowing how to use them. The best way to be good at gardening is to keep one… Continue Reading
It happens. The End Of The World As We Know It. Fortunately, TEOTWAWKI happens in the spring. (Really the best time for it; Universe please take note.) The intrepid prepper grabs his Can o Seeds, digs up his yard, and… Continue Reading
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
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
Many preppers on a tight budget may be tempted to keep a stock of instant Ramen noodles on hand for use as a quick food in emergencies. A staple food of many broke young adults through their college and early… Continue Reading
Keystone Meats makes canned ground beef, ready to heat and serve, and the cans have a five-year best-by date. On the surface, this seems like a great item for preppers to add to their pantry. The question is, of course,… Continue Reading
As I sit tucked in a nice warm house considering the ice storm that’s likely to start any minute now, power outages are on my mind. We recently did a post on the most important issue of how to heat… Continue Reading
One of the hardest (and most expensive) lessons I have learned in my prepping journey is keeping our prepping proportionately in balance. When I started prepping, I went WAY overboard buying guns and ammo. Why? Because guns and ammo are… Continue Reading
As Paranoid Prepper recently pointed out, camping foods can be great choices for emergency kits, particularly portable ones. Some of the easiest to carry, cook, and actually eat are freeze-dried backpacker meals. Here we review one of these by Wise,… Continue Reading
Ok, Salty and I have made no secret of not being fans of Autumn Olive, as it’s a massively aggressive invasive species. We wouldn’t recommend planting it, ever. But it’s already There! and There! And There, and There, and There….… Continue Reading
Here’s a Catch-22 for the prepper: Many disasters might make it necessary to produce one’s own food to have all you need. Also, many disasters make it harder to produce food by their impacts on the weather. How can preppers… 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
If the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF) where is the food going & water going to come from? To me, that’s the single biggest question when it comes to choosing a bugout location. So… let’s talk about where the food… Continue Reading