Vegetable Garden Planning for Beginners
Hopefully, you are already in full swing on your own garden, but if you have been putting it off, or are still conducting research on how to start your...
DIY SHTF Healing Salve
When I grew up my mother and father seemed to have a salve for everything (which we pronounced 'sav'). When I and my siblings fell over, they applied a...
How to Tap Water from Your Heater and Toilet
Any SHTF story begins like this: “so, there I was, once upon a time (in December), in the wild, no water, no food, and with wolves on my ass.”...
Feeding During SHTF – Bread Options
A crisis of some scale is a hard time either learning to live without, or making a great deal of work for ourselves. We can still have stuff with...
How to Make Rope from Plants – Natural Cordage Making
You can make rope or natural cordage (rope and string) from many fibers including (Bast) Dogbane, Milkweed, Nettles, Hemp, Flax, (leaves) Cattail, Yucca, Agave, Douglas Iris, (Bark) Willow, Maple,...
How $5 A Week Can Get You 295 Pounds Of Food
Looking at the state of the world today, with all its threats to our society and way of life, it’s easy to think anyone would see the benefits of...
DIY Bicycle Generator
Making your own bicycle generator is a good addition for those who are interested in going off the grid and finding a way to live on their own terms....
How to Avoid FEMA Camps
The mere mention of the words FEMA camps is bound to draw polar responses from our readers. Almost any topic that can be linked into a large list of...
More on Blackout Foods
Oh, how I love food! Let me count the ways. Actually, I don’t like food-food, but the homemade variety. And nothing beats a meal cooked during an SHTF situation....
How To Plant Your Orchard To Have Fruits All Year Round
There are few things more rewarding than watching your orchard full of fruit trees and berries grow.
Keeping an orchard is a long term investment. Most fruit trees won’t even...
