Homesteading After 60 What You Need To Know

My grandparents had a farm in Georgia, where they raised nearly everything they needed. I remember my grandmother telling me that they bought coffee, flour, and sugar. They raised most...

How Much Food Is Enough? Understanding How Long your Food Stores will Last

When starting their food storage people commonly ask: How much food do I need? There are a few considerations to make when deciding on quantity. Each food storage type...

16 Ways to Use Crisco That You Never Thought Of

Crisco is not just for making the perfect piece crust anymore – at least not if you are a prepper. There are copious amounts of survival uses for this...

SHTF Survival Options – Indoor Gardening

As a prepper, you may have stockpiled all sorts of food items, and you probably know how to grow your own food crops. You may be so skilled at gardening...

Guerrilla Gardening for Survival

The phrase “guerrilla gardening” was first used in 1973 in New York City, when Liz Christie and her Green Guerrilla group transformed an empty private lot into a vegetable...

Storage-Friendly Survival Gardening

When we sit down with the goal to be prepared and self-sufficient, we have to balance a lot. We already walk tightropes between work and home life in many...

THIS Really Happens if You Eat a Bucket of Survival Food

Food: it seems to be the one constant in prepping. We start out buying food and many of us are still buying food, long after we think we’ve got...

59 Long-Term Survival Foods and Supplies from the Grocery Store

There is a whole industry that has grown up around the prepping and survival community. This industry is working overtime to provide everything from pre-packaged meals to the latest...

Best States for Homesteading

Homesteading's best state depends on many factors, and might not be the same for everyone. Every state has advantages and disadvantages, so what's right for you will depend on...

7 Prepper Food Storage Mistakes

1 – VARIETY Most people have inadequate variety in their housing. 95% of the people with whom I worked stored only the four essential things we listed earlier: wheat,...