Episode 9: Emergency Water 101 Listen here! Water 101. What are my options for storing water? How often do I need to rotate water? What should I look for in a water filter, and tons of other great emergency water information! Featuring an … [Read more]
Food Storage and Survival Radio Episode 8: Preparedness 101
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
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 … [Read more]
