Episode 8: Preparedness Basics Listen here! Preparedness 101: An overview of the basics of preparedness. Why prepare, what are we preparing for, making a plan, emergency kits, short and long term food storage, and how to start. Mentioned in the show: Prioritizing preparedness goals Making a Plan Vehicle Emergency Kit 72 Hour Kit here and […]
Archives for May 2013
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 7: Creek Stewart, Trying Things Yourself
Episode 7: Creek Stewart, Trying Things Yourself Listen here! I share with you the value of testing things out for yourself plus have an interview with Creek Stewart from Willow Haven Outdoor about his new book, getting youth involved in preparedness, and everyday items you may already be carrying around that could be used in […]
The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide Review and Giveaway!
Have you read the Hunger Games series? My two oldest kids loved these books, and they are chock full of young people in outdoor survival situations. Throughout the series, the heroine Katniss, eats plants, purifies water, builds shelters, uses plants for medicine, hunts her own food, and survives some pretty harsh circumstances. These books are […]
Book Review: The Prepper’s Cookbook
Tess Pennington of Ready Nutrition has a new food storage cookbook out: The Prepper’s Cookbook: 300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals. The book focuses on foods that are commonly stored and inexpensive to stock and really does have 300 recipes. There are recipes for breakfast, lunch, supper, sides, breads, […]
Storm Preparedness Plus Giveaway
Guest post and giveaway by the makers of STA-BIL and Start Your Engines! fuel treatments. Storm and tornado season is in full swing, and each year, the United States gets an average of 5.9 hurricanes, 1,000 tornadoes and 10,000 severe thunderstorms. Storms can be as scary as they are unpredictable and cause immense damage. But, […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 6: EDC with Survivor Jack
Episode 6: EDC with Survivor Jack Listen here! This week I have a fun interview with Survivor Jack about the need to learn first aid and ways to be prepared wherever you are. I also share some great preparedness gift ideas for the graduates or anyone getting started on their own. Mentioned in the show: […]
How to Cook Dandelion Roots
Dandelion is one of the most recognizable and widespread edible plants. You know that weed that pops up in your yard every spring with its sunny yellow flowers? That lovely yellow flower that then turns into a ball of fluff attached to seeds that get blown across the yard/town/nation by the wind and small children? […]
Solo Stove Biomass Stove Review
I recently got to test out the Solo Stove biomass backpacking stove. This little stove is very light weight and burns bio-fuels like sticks, pine cones, leaves, and other dry fuel. I put it through the standard testing and tried to boil some water on it. The stove burns really nicely. The first round I […]
Book Review: Fight Flight or Hide: The Guide to Surviving a Mass Shooting
There are many different reasons and scenarios for which to be prepared. One that isn’t covered too often is surviving a mass shooting. Do you know what to do if you find yourself in one of these attacks? In Fight Flight or Hide: The Guide to Surviving a Mass Shooting, John Forsythe outlines ways to […]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 5: Food Storage Cookbook, Preparedness Mother’s Day
Episode 5: Food Storage Cookbook, Preparedness Mother’s Day Listen Here! Did we eat dandelions? Why yes, we did! Plus how I got started with my long term food storage, some ideas for preparedness Mother’s Day gifts, and an interview with Megan from My Food Storage Cookbook where we talk about her super organized and easy […]