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Chances are pretty good that you know someone who lived through the Great Depression. Some of the stories they tell are almost unbelievable. My mother, for example, was a child during the Great Depression and World War II. She always kept some type of snack in her purse, even though she was well off. She…
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Electromagnetic pulse This seems to be a prepper’s favorite “Doomsday scenario”. Youtube has hundreds of videos on the subject. The internet is filled with web pages telling you to want you should or should not do in case of one. But how much do you really know about one? How much does anyone know? In this Part…
Introduction Why dry? Drying (dehydrating) food is one of the oldest and easiest methods of food preservation. Dehydration is the process of removing water or moisture from a food product. Removing moisture from foods makes them smaller and lighter. Dehydrated foods are ideal for backpacking, hiking, and camping because they weigh much less than their…
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The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis. Europe is now destabilizing amid the Greek soap opera; China’s stock market bubble is bursting, and the U.S. dollar’s world reserve status is about to be decimated by the global shift toward the International…
Introduction What distinguishes beans from other plants? Beans have pods with seeds inside them. Aside from beans, this includes peas, lentils and some people even include the peanut in this category. All legumes are able to take large amounts of nitrogen from the air and convert it to protein in the seeds. They also return…
Essential Foods For Any Disaster Everyday food storage is an important topic! The more people who prep, the safer we all are, which is why we’re giving away information for free. Looking for a magic list of grocery store survival food? Wondering what are the best-canned foods for prepping? Take stock of the 37 most important…
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Exploding A Nuclear Bomb In The Sky Creates An Interesting Phenomenon In 1962, during the depths of the Cold War, the U.S. military exploded a nuclear weapon high above an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Dubbed Operation Starfish, this exercise was part of a larger project to evaluate the impacts of nuclear explosions in space….
With winter coming to most of the country, I thought I’d write something about how to survive if you’re stuck at home during a blizzard or winter ice storm and the power goes out. We don’t really have that problem down here in Phoenix but I’ve lived in places like Alaska, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New…
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In a world where so many of us live so far from true threats to our existence, many have come to view survivalists as outsiders to society. They see us as selfish loners hidden away in an underground bunker or surrounded by a forest of trees somewhere. Some even believe survivalists are hoping for the…