– For the Safety, Security, and Success of the Family
As you stock your Prepper’s pantry, you’ll want to strike a balance between foods with long shelf lives, and foods that represent a balanced diet. Since you’ll have to rotate your stock on healthier items with shorter shelf lives, it’s important to keep an inventory on expiration dates. Luckily, some staple items can last for […]
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It is all well and good to stock food and tools, read books on gardening and bushcraft, and pack your Bug Out Bag with the essentials. In fact, these steps alone will put you ahead of the average American in being prepared for an emergency. But as Preppers know, there’s much more to being prepared […]
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By any standards, 2020 has shown us Level 1 of SHTF: the world went crazy over Covid-19, declaring a “pandemic” and closing economies. People live in fear, shutting themselves into their homes and wearing masks and gloves at all times. Store shelves emptied of food, cleaning products, medications, and toilet paper. Unemployment has skyrocketed and […]
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As you gather your supplies, invest in precious metals, stockpile your food, and grow your garden, there are a few areas that new Preppers tend to overlook. One is your level of physical fitness (you can read more about that here: Hunting Training & Survival Fitness, and another is your Prepping education. Do you know […]
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It is well-known that there is safety in numbers. In addition to physical safety, there is security, camaraderie, and more expansive skill sets that come with a community. When it comes to Prepping, it’s easy to stockpile supplies and create plans that only involve yourself, or just your immediate family. But creating a community of […]
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When it comes to Prepping, many people look at stockpiling enough supplies for their families to survive for a year without outside help. But what exactly happens after that year? Of course, if you’re retreating to your underground survival shelter due to a nuclear bomb or EMP attack, the supplies make sense. But if you’re […]
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2020 has taken a turn that many people didn’t see coming back in January. A pandemic kicked off an economic shutdown, which could eventually lead to a great depression. Preppers were much more prepared than their neighbors, and the community has grown by leaps and bounds now that Americans are viewing Prepping less as entertainment, […]
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Once you’ve selected your camping or survival hammock, your work is only half done before you can start to enjoy the benefits of hammock sleeping; now it’s time to choose how to hang your hammock! Ultimately, you have 4 options available to you: tree straps, hanging hardware, rope, and hammock stands. The most common method […]
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Hammock camping has been steadily gaining popularity as people ditch their tents in favor of a much faster to erect, and more comfortable sleeping setup. There are plenty of benefits to hammock camping, from the comfort level, to the ease of finding a location to hang it, to the open-air star-gazing it allows for. Many […]
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For thousands of years, humans have harvested fur-bearing animals for food, clothing, and population management. Furbearers are now an under-utilized renewable resource, despite the social and cultural importance to those that rely on them for sustenance and even income. As long as sufficient habitat exists and ethical hunting and trapping practices are followed, furbearers can […]
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