Month: January 2019

It only takes a few seasons to realize that you are not going to want to reseed your land every year. Not all of it, anyway. The mass appeal of perennial plants for long term gardeners is the idea that these plants should return the following year. If they are cared for properly they might […]

We are getting into deep water with the government shutdown. We are facing things that we have not faced in this nation before. Most of it has to do with dependency and that doesn’t bode well for the people of this nation and the civility therein. The longer this thing goes on the more families […]

It’s interesting how many people worry about survival shelter and the ability to build a shelter of natural materials. This means there is certainly an understanding of how important shelter is. What’s hard to understand is, why so many are ready to bug out and leave their most precious shelter. Your home is your true […]

Food production and food procurement are cornerstones of the prepping process. Its a very simple thing to understand. You have to either have the food, make the food or gather the food to survive. For most people a garden is part of this answer. Its astounding what some gardeners have been capable of pulling off […]

A good campfire doesn’t happen; there is an art to building a campfire correctly. It takes the right tools, the right fuel and a bit of practice to build a campfire correctly. What You Need to Build a Campfire All good fires start with the right combination of heat, fuel, and oxygen. For the heat, […]

A solid bugout plan is one of the most important pars of a city preppers planning. You have to have a means of getting away from the city in a serious disaster. There is no other option. You will not live in a city for long. Resources will disappear and you will be left to […]

For a long time Americans have bought into these strange rituals. They are weird things that we all do so that we fit in. One of the big ones is landscaping. We grow all the same trees, grasses and bushes. We trim our hedges, or pay someone to, just so they look good like our […]