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Challenge: A rodent burrows into an exterior wall of your home and eventually chews into an electrical wire in your living room. The wire short circuits and eventually starts a house fire. The living room is filled with smoke that slowly smolders before spreading, filling the entire home with thick, billowy smoke. Ask yourself, do you have the proper smoke alarms engaged? Pretend the primary exit is blocked. How quick can you… Read more

Vinegar is a liquid composed of water and the key ingredient acetic acid. Vinegar is used mainly for cooking but in days and ages past it had a great uses in several sectors of daily life. Use ranging from medical, industrial and even domestic have been excellent though long forgotten. Vinegar is not just for salads. With high quality white and apple cider vinegar in mind lets go over some of the… Read more

Ya. That time of year is coming up. Flu Season. Not sure how you guys feel but the last thing I want to do is load up with some vaccine that has god knows what in it. If you are on the fence this year about weather or not to get the flu-shot let me pull you to one side. Read this awesome article by Daisy Luther over @ TheOrganicPrepper.ca She covers… Read more

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 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