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I am sure it has to be a crummy feeling to wake up only to find a crime scene in your back yard. That being some wild animal has gained access to your chickens and ripped a few apart during the night for a midnight snack. It causes unwanted stress to not only your family but the other chickens which can effect their eggs as well. Its our job to protect them… Read more

Today we get a chance to sit down to have an interview with Scott Kelley of GraywolfSurvival.com and ask him a few questions about prepping in general.  How long have you been prepping for? That all depends on what you mean by prepping. I grew up in the woods of Central Pennsylvania so I learned about hunting, fishing, camping, and being outdoors early. Plus I was in the cub scouts, boy scouts and… Read more

Are our readers practicing long term food storage preparation? I am sure most of our readers do in some way or another. Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm. Can you blame them? Statistically the next… Read more

Christopher Parrett the editor of the LDS Preparedness Manual has announced  the 2012 edition, which is the most current release. While released a few years ago I recently now stumbled upon this so I suppose others may find it of use as well. If you click over to the LDS Another Voice of Warning Site, you can download the entire thing - free on Pdf. 429 pages of very good prepping info. The… Read more

In another installment (probably our last we have done so many) of ask-a-prepper we talk with the "PrepperBabe" of Facebook and ask her to weigh in on a few prepper related questions. How long have you been prepping for? 7 years+ never really thought about it. Any reason why you began prepping? I was a coupon queen, wanted to find foods that lasted longer and I have a friend that referred me to… Read more

This has been done a few times in the past.------------------------------------ I wouldn’t go as far as to say the guys over at ‘Practical Primitive’ invented the uber match (although I could be wrong!), but their version is excellent.  It is very cheap to make, all you need is some strike anywhere matches, cotton balls and some candle wax. Put it all together and you get a very effective firestarter that is waterproof… Read more

The summer heat is here and with it comes the sun that helps everything to grow. Unfortunately for many people direct sunlight for a prolonged period of time can leave our skin burnt or even blistering from the sun. Clearly prevention is better than a remedy but many of us and for various reasons need to be in the sun no matter the weather. In a SHTF scenario, sunblock will simply no… Read more

If you ask around about food storage you will find the same answer more often than not about eating what you store and rotating your food.  Rule number one: store what you eat and eat what you store. Rule number two: rotate your stock from oldest to newest as to eat your older rations first. Well this can be a daunting task if you (like so many others) simply stuff your canned… Read more