Vikings Used a Gross Survival Firestarter. Here’s How to Make It You have to admire the practicality and ruggedness of our European ancestors: All they needed was some fungus and some boiled piss and they had FIRE! Don’t discount this article! When you understand the chemistry involved it is ingenius!
Category: Prepping
Why A Sillcock Key Is The Secret to Survival
Why A Sillcock Key Is The Secret to Survival Although not specifically designed for survival situations, a sillcock key is a handy item to have in your bug-out bag. Widely used by plumbers, contractors, and engineers, it’s a simple device used to open tamper-resistant sillcocks and hose bibs. You’ll find these outdoor water faucets…
Blanching the Veggies
If you Garden this is a MUST to ensure you always have fresh, tasty veggies at the ready 24/7 365.
Two-Point Perspective Drawing
This is a very practical skill to know and master. One of the most practical ways to use this is to draw to scale maps of your Area of Operations (Home and surrounding property) to help identify Avenues of Approach, Egress Routes, Exit Routes etc. Highly encourage you to go back and watch some of…
Prepping 101: The Kratky Method – Growing Food Without Soil
KRATKY METHOD: GROWING FOOD WITHOUT SOIL As of late self-reliant food production has been made the #1 priority around the Hermit cave. I have been gardening for over twenty years but never ventured into hydroponics because of the complexity and cost involved. This article changed my entire perspective on that. In a nutshell it…
DIY Hard Copy Maps
H/T BCE This site Lets you configure any location, and save it as a .pdf and then, download it for printing. You can add the symbols and whatnot on the right, as well as overlay the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) on the map itself. Even allows you to place sector boundaries,…
Lessons in Community: Preparedness is a Group Activity
SAFETY IN NUMBERS: PREPAREDNESS IS A GROUP ACTIVITY Lone Wolves get eaten. Enhance your preparedness by establishing a squad of like-minded individuals with common-core goals. Think LOCAL, LOCAL LOCAL! Because when the fecal impaction that is FUSA hits the oscillating device, that is all that is going to matter.
Time for Some Backyard Chickens!
Egg Prices Soar As Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Spreads Ahead Of Easter I bought six laying hens (Orpingtons), a rooster (Brown Leghorn) material and plans to build a chicken coop and chicken feed two years ago when all the fun started with Wu-Flu. I now have a steady supply of brown eggs for my family and…
Ukraine Invasion: Preparedness Lessons Learned
Ukraine Invasion: Preparedness Lessons Learned A good, practical read for the Armed Citizen. The bottom line is that we should not be wasting our time watching, reading and arguing about war propaganda. The Nature of War is Deceit and Lies. We should be using our valuable time to Train and Prepare so we don’t…
Fieldcraft: Alternative Fire Starting Without Matches
Alternative Fire Starting Without Matches Good things to have in your mental and physical survival toolbox because you never know when you might need FIRE.