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As strange as it may sound Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is derived from the inner bark of a Willow Tree. This has been known and used for thousands of years by various cultures to reduce fever, relive pain and thin the blood. Modern medicine it is not. This miracle drug has been around and in use for ever. There are several other features of Aspirin that people are unaware of. This surprising drug… Read more

You don't need acres to grow hundreds of pounds of potatoes. All you need is a small 4 sq ft box! That's right! Great things can come in small packages. If you are tight for space or just want to try something very cool this can be an amazing option. Inner city prepping never sounded so rewarding! Between this method of growing potatoes as seen here as well as using 5 gallon… Read more

Are you tight on space? Can not grow a large garden? Cant grow a small garden? Cant grow anything?  The dog tramples your garden yearly? Rabbits eat your stock? Clay soil? Torrential downpours or floods wash away your garden? Have you looked into growing vegetables in containers? This is a simple and effective way for you to provide wholesome an fresh vegetables for your family and you can beat the space constraints… Read more

Article originally posted at Mother Earth News By: Linda Holliday During our boiling, broiling, blistering summer of 2012 here in the Missouri Ozarks, water was a topic of conversation wherever we went. Creeks and ponds dried up (some never recovered) and the water table dropped, forcing a few neighbors to have their well pumps lowered or to even have deeper wells drilled. Many folks shared memories of rain barrels, cisterns, hand pumps… Read more

I'm sure the biggest regret most people will have made when (not if but when) the economy implodes is that you did not have a proper amount of food in your cache to cover the time it takes for the nation and its people to heal. I don't have enough myself. I hope to and its going to be a work in progress for the rest of my new way of life.… Read more

Amazing surveillance video from a Walmart in Midwest City, Okla., shows a heroic police officer saving a 2-year-old girl from the clutches of a deranged knife-wielding man. He did so by shooting the criminal at point-blank range, killing him. Well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23uPQgaJ24Y A fine example of heroics. Read more

I'm not really sure why everyone continues to tell us the United States Economy is improving when its clear to see the middle class is being eliminated. As this happens our economy dies. Our economy doesn't depend on the small percent of rich that lives here does it? No, that's right it doesn't. What about the poor? Well they don't work or pay tax... the only thing they do is collect and… Read more

I know we have talked about a lot of things to do in order to prepare for a potential economic or societal collapse. Also what to do and have stocked in a black/brown out or a long term power outage.Well there is one thing I have never mentioned earlier that I feel I should have. The internet. Knowledge. Information. Know how. If you want to learn about something in today's day and… Read more