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
If the Stuff Hit’s The Fan (SHTF), what would your profession be? What would you do if you didn’t have your ‘day job’? I don’t mean “How would you survive.” At least for a while a prepper should have food… Continue Reading
Medicines are some of the things that might be hard to get in troubled times, and many of them can’t easily be replaced. The good news is that many are also quite cheap and readily available. In case you’re feeling… Continue Reading
Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and more: All berries are perennial fruits with attractive flowers that are good for supporting pollinators and attracting wildlife. Between them, they can keep you in fresh fruit May though late summer, with plenty left over to… Continue Reading
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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
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
“Two is one, one is none.” That’s a common prepper saying, acknowledging the fact that things break. If it’s critical and it breaks, you’d better have a backup. I think though, that a lot of people underestimate how much can… Continue Reading
Paranoid Prepper recently did a very nice piece on Operational Security (OPSEC), or how to not advertise your preps. You can find it here. It got Salty and I to thinking, and since our situation is somewhat different from Paranoid Prepper’s,… Continue Reading
The reluctant spouse.In Part I of this series, we looked at how to find out just why The Spouse is reluctant, and how to approach bridging the gap. We then recorded a podcast for for preppers to play for their… Continue Reading
It’s a House, Not a Solar Oven: Cooling Ideas That Needs No Power Cooling – Because, Physics. If you make air move faster, some of its heat energy is converted into the energy of motion, so it cools. This… Continue Reading