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National Preparedness Month is September!

By LPC on September 3, 2014 in Berkey® Water Purifier, Bug-Out-Bags, Disaster Education & Preparation, Family Projects, Fire, First-Aid, Food Storage, Heating, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Prepper, Self-Reliance, Shelter, Storage, Survival, Uncategorized, Water

National Preparedness Month is Here. If you haven’t recently, now might be a good time to access your overall preparedness during National Preparedness Month. With so many reasons to have some of the essentials you’ll need on a daily basis at your disposal, it makes sense to take some time to do a needs assessment. […]

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DIY MREs You Can Make At Home

By jeff on March 30, 2014 in Bug-Out-Bags, Cooking, DIY, Food, Food Storage, Self-Reliance, SHTF, Survival, Uncategorized

Do you have MRE’s in your food storage? Are you prepared in the event you have to leave in a hurry? Do you have a Bug-Out -Bag or a 72-hour kit? These packs are made in advance with the intention of being able to grab something when you are in a hurry and you […]

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The Ultimate Spring Storm Checklist

By LPC on March 13, 2014 in Bug-Out-Bags, Disaster Education & Preparation, Educational, Evacuation, Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Uncategorized

Source: Cheaper than Dirt It’s looking like the wild weather we’ve had this winter isn’t going away – it might actually get worse. Tyler Stanfield from Wunderground has an excellent analysis that predicts 3 hurricanes and 1 major hurricane along the Atlantic. Those of us in the west aren’t in for a walk in […]

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Pemmican – The Original American MRE

By jeff on January 13, 2014 in Bug-Out-Bags, Canning & Preserving, Cooking, DIY, Food, Homestead, Organic Food Storage, Survival

What makes a good bug bag? Not only does it need to have all the necessities but it should be as light as possible. One of the essentials of a bag is food. There are plenty of good MREs available that are lightweight and easily packable but today I found on Tactical Intelligence a recipe […]

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Bug Out Cabin is 350 sq Feet

By jeff on September 23, 2013 in Bug-Out-Bags, Entertaining, Natural Disasters, Self-Reliance, Shelter, SHTF, Uncategorized

Could you live in a 350 sq foot Bug Out cabin? We love cabins for bug out purposes, and on occasion a tiny cabin catches our eye. Sometimes it’s for it’s aesthetic looks, sometimes for it’s floor design and sometimes for its location. We’ve shared enough of these over the year to know that any […]

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Honey, Don’t Forget To Take Your Bug Out Jacket.

By LPC on April 25, 2013 in Bug-Out-Bags, Evacuation, Natural Disasters, Self-Reliance, SHTF, Storage, Survival, Tools

This is a sketch of a prototype 72 hr survival/bug out jacket. It’s unique in it’s design. What do you think, thumbs up or down? Our Safe Harvest Seed Banks Are On Sale Right Now For a limited Time. Click Here to See all of our on sale items

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Featured Post: Bug Out Bags: Build your own or buy ready-made? -The Survival Mom™

By David on September 5, 2012 in Bug-Out-Bags, Close-Calls, Communications, Disaster Education & Preparation, DIY, Drought, EDC Items, Educational, Evacuation, Featured Content, First-Aid, Improvised Techniques, Natural Disasters, Quick-Tips & Shortcuts, Search and Rescue, Self-Reliance, SHTF, Survival, Technology, Tools, Water

We recently returned from the 2012 Survival Expo in Las Vegas this last weekend. It was a fun trip that allowed us to see our friends and make new ones. One of our friends we were very happy to see there was Lisa “The Survival Mom” Bedford and her husband. Lisa was kind enough to […]

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