Lisa Bedford is your typical suburban mom of two who likes cute clothes, shopping at the mall, and lives half her life in her vehicle transporting her kids to and from various activities. She also has emergency kits stocked, an evacuation plan and enough extra food supplies to feed her family for at least three […]
Food Storage Made Easy Binder Review
If you’re just getting started in emergency preparedness, I have a book that might help you get going. Well, actually the cute girls over at Food Storage Made Easy have a book. I’ve been following their blog for a long time and believe me, these ladies were once beginners just like everyone else. It wasn’t […]
Book Review: The Forgotten Skills of Self Sufficiency used by the Mormon Pioneers
I recently received a copy of Caleb Warnock’s new book, The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers and of course was quite interested in finding out what I could learn. Forgotten self sufficiency skills? Right up my alley. I live in Utah and I’m a Mormon. With my own Pioneer ancestry, I […]
Book Review: Seven Years of Plenty Cookbook
I recently received a copy of Seven Years of Plenty Cookbook by Linda Olsson who also writes the blog Seven Years of Plenty. For those of you unfamiliar with the phrase, seven years of plenty were what Joseph in Egypt knew would happen before a great famine hit by interpreting Pharaoh’s dream in the Old […]
Book Review: Old-Time Country Wisdom and Lore
Voyageur Press recently sent me a copy of their newest book Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore: 1000s of Traditional Skills for Simple Living by Jerry Mack Johnson to review. This book contains a wealth of information from folklore about topics like water witching, weather, country remedies and herbal cures, bird migrations and animal lore, firewood […]
Book Review: One Second After
I recently got a copy of the book One Second After by William Forstchen. This is not a new book–it’s been out for a couple of years–I’m just a bit behind on getting it read. It is a New York Times bestseller and you’ll probably be able to find it in your local library. You […]
Book Review: Making the Best of Basics
I recently got a copy of James Talmage Stevens’ bestselling book Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook–a fairly thorough guide to basic preparedness. For a little background, let me tell you this–Mr. Stevens has been publishing this book since shortly after I was born. The guy has been around preparedness a little bit. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]