How to prepare your family to survive and thrive in todays uncertain world
Recently a reader sent me a question asking about the often repeated story about ‘Rabbit Starvation’ The story says that if you eat only rabbits, as in a survival diet, you’ll die of malnutrition. So why bother with raising rabbits? The theoretical science behind this is actually correct. If you eat a diet of extremely [...]
For the last week or so we had family visiting from out of town. Their visit sorta triggered a thought in my mind about coping with situations where you have a few extra folks in your home. Clearly there was no emergency situation here, and therefore some of the stress that we’d see in that [...]
So today I thought I’d talk about something a little bit different. I tend to be pretty pragmatic about things, and focus on the more probable events first before worrying about the crazy stuff. Like worrying about a job loss before worrying about a giant asteroid hitting our planet. But one thing I’ve always talked [...]
So my wife and I were sitting around watching the new Doomsday Bunkers show on Discovery to see if it was any good. It’s marginal, btw. If you haven’t seen it, it revolves around a guy that builds custom bunkers for “preppers” and shows some of the process as well as a few finished products. [...]
It’s way too easy to focus completely on prepping and lose sight of the fact that even though we’re preparing for things to go wrong in some way, life continues in the mean time. Bottom line, it’s important to make sure that you don’t forget about having a life. Everyone should have hobbies and interests [...]
From time to time I get emails asking just how to get started from scratch in emergency preparedness. Without going into details about why prepare, my philosophical view on preparedness, and the like, this is what I’d consider if I were getting started today. Recognize that what we do when we prepare is to prepare [...]
Note: This is part two of the guest post from Andrew Base at the Emergency Communications Blog. Enjoy! This is probably one of the most important areas for you to invest in your emergency communications plan. Get licensed (because it’s easy), get some inexpensive equipment to begin with, and get familiar with it (which is [...]
This is another guest post by Andrew Baze from the Emergency Communications Blog. You probably remember him from the book ‘The Road Home’ which I reviewed here a few months ago. The most common amateur radio communication options fall into these two categories: UHF – Ultra-High Frequency (known as “440 MHz” or “70 cm”, which [...]
It should be readily apparant at this point that nobody who is currently in power in this country takes the economic train wreck that’s on it’s way seriously. Nobody who WANTS to be in power takes it seriously either. Obama, Romney, Santorum … Democrat, Republican. None of them have the intellectual honesty or flat out [...]
Here’s part two of the guest post from Marie James at The Homesteader Kitchen. If you missed part one, Thoughts on Sustainable Food Production, go back and read it… So here’s my updated list of points to consider as I keep moving on toward long-term sustainability. As you look at the list, see which ones [...]
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