What if you haven’t planted a garden yet this year, but would still like to grow something? Is it too late to plant? Well, that all depends on your location and the number of frost free days you have left in your season, but the short answer is no, it’s not too late. For various […]
Eight Fantastic Food Storage Foods for Toddlers
Do you have little people in your preparedness plans? Even if you don’t have any babies or toddlers in your home right now, you may end up providing for those around you or those in your extended family. We’ve covered some great options for food storage for babies, from stocking up on formula to dehydrated […]
The Short List of Essential Off-Grid Sewing Supplies
In a grid down situation, sewing may become quite a valuable skill as clothes and furnishings need repaired, rebuilt, or created. Even in everyday life, having the tools and skills to do some sewing repairs can be extremely useful. There are a myriad of sewing tools out there as evidenced by racks of “notions” in […]
Top 10 Preparedness Graduation Gifts
It’s graduation time from most schools and there will be a whole lot of young people leaving their homes for the first time on their own–off into the big world. Rather than a bouquet of roses, why not give a gift that will help them be more prepared in this new adventure in their life? […]
4 Things I’ve Learned About Bee Suits
In all our short experience with bees, I’ve already learned a thing or two about bee suits. They are really a necessary part of having a hive, unless you want to be stung more or be paranoid about that tickling on your neck the whole time you’re checking your hive. None for me, thanks. I’ll […]
Five Reasons to Update and Rotate Your Emergency Kits!
Once you get an emergency kit put together either for your home, office, car, or bugging out, there is a tendency to stash that kit somewhere and forget about it. Don’t do it. Be friends with your kit. Check in on it at least once a year–every 6 months is even better. And some kits […]
Nine Things to Consider When Looking For Your Survival House
You don’t need a bunker in a remote location in Idaho or Montana to have a home that is able to withstand an emergency situation. However, there are a few things you’ll want to consider when choosing where to live as your home is an often overlooked but important part of your preparedness efforts. If […]
The Four Best Methods for Long Term Food Storage
I had a reader email with a question about long term storage of rice. The following is the answer I gave her. Although we were discussing rice, these storage techniques work for long term storage of any dry product (wheat, rice, beans, oats, sugar, etc.). I bought a bag of rice and I do not […]
7 Ways to Use Sprouted Wheat
Following the tutorial on sprouting wheat, I got the question, “What do you do with sprouts that small?” Good question. They’re not tall green “sprouts” like the alfalfa sprouts you have on your sandwich. What do you do with those little sprouted wheat grains? Well, here’s seven great ways to use sprouted wheat. 1. Eat […]
Nine Great Emergency Light Sources Other Than Flashlights
This post is day 9 of the 30 Days of Preparedness! See the end of the post for the other 29 days! So the lights go out and you feel around to get the flashlight that you had stashed in its secure location on top of the refrigerator (stepping on somebody’s blocks and toy soldiers […]