Here’s another survival situation that hits close to home: Power Outages. Unless you’ve been able to get your home completely off grid, you’re pretty dependent on power from the local power company to keep your place running. Usually a power outage hits without much warning (except you know it’s snowing or windy or whatever might […]
Headlamps are a Glorious Thing
Have you ever had to fix a car at night? What about reading a map in the dark? Or setting up a tent in the dark when you got to camp a little later than you thought you would? Or going out to check on the chickens or feed the horse after dark? Or just […]
Baby 72 Hour Survival Kit
Babies and toddlers have a whole different set of needs than we adults do when it comes to a survival situation, so your standard survival kit isn’t going to work for them. We’ve always just stuck baby stuff in our survival kits when we had a baby in the house, but this time I’m doing […]
Book Review: Will to Live by Les Stroud
I recently had the opportunity to read Les Stroud’s new book, Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival. I have to admit something here–I had no idea who Les Stroud was before getting the book. Serious. We don’t watch TV much here, so I didn’t know he was “Survivorman” until the book publicist […]
Blog Review: The Survivalist Blog
MD Creekmore recently requested reviews of his survival blog, and being a regular reader of his, I thought I’d write up a review for him. The Survivalist Blog, written by MD Creekmore, is a blog covering many different aspects of survival from food storage tips and advice, to living off the grid, to trapping, to […]
Baking Bread in a Solar Oven in the Utah Winter
Solar ovens have a very good reputation for cooking things on hot, sunny days, but what if it’s not a hot day? Have you ever wondered how well a solar oven cooks in the winter? Me too. So I’ve spent a few days with the Global Sun Oven in the Utah winter. I’m kind of […]
Book Review: How to Live on Wheat 3rd Edition
You know wheat is recommended as a vital part of any long term food storage plan, but after you have those buckets or cans of wheat in the food storage room, what are you going to do with it all? Even if you have a grinder and can grind it into flour, that will certainly […]
Survival Situations: Flood or Water in Your Vehicle
Here’s another survival situation to think over. This was brought up in the comments of the Winter Breakdown Survival Situations post. Heidi said: “A while back, a bridge collapsed (in Minnesota, I think?) and cars fell into the water. That immediately made me wonder what I could do to be prepared for that with really […]
Survival Situations #1: Winter Breakdown
There are a lot of different scenarios for which you could be preparing. Economic downturn, natural disaster, societal collapse, job loss, etc. Not every situation will apply to you directly (like I have no fear of hurricanes where I live, but for someone else that is an annual concern), and not every situation is as […]
Book Review: The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making
Do you hunt? Or raise livestock for meat? Maybe you plan to at some point or have in the past. What do you do after the animal is ready to butcher? With our few attempts at farm animals, we called the local butcher, but with our hunting game, I process the meat myself right here […]