Most Recent Shelter and Clothing Articles

Winter Warmth When the Grid is Down

When the grid goes down during the frigid months of the year, and you are ill-equipped to maintain warmth in your home, you have a major survival situation on your hands. Keep reading to learn ways one mom from the North keeps her family nice and toasty when the grid goes down.

Bushcraft Emergency Lighting

When it comes to long-term preparedness, we need only look back on our ancestors’ knowledge to affirm that their methods for surviving, often considered primitive by modern standards, are effective in their own right and are applicable in the event that our modern day conveniences are disrupted.

Teaching Kids How to Survive in the Forest

Would your child know how to survive if they were lost in the woods? Teaching your children these steps 10 steps could save their life.

How To Stay Cool During Rolling Blackouts

Rolling black outs are being threatened if high energy use continues. Learn ways to prepare for the black outs and use these tips to stay cool during the power outage.

Essential Emergency Preps: Thermo-lite 2.0 Bivvy Bag

While on a recent camping trip I had to forgo my ususal sleeping bag and use an emergency bivvy sack. Read my personal performance review on this product and why the thermo-lite bivvy sac is a must for your reserve supplies.

Fight the Cold: Homemade Pocket Warmers

Disposable hand and feet warmers are a great way to keep the cold at bay. In addition to these nifty items assisting in maintaining proper body temperature, they can also be used to soothe sore, achy muscles. Any sewing novice can make pocket warmers with these easy directions.

Surviving a Disaster in the Urban Jungle

After major disasters that occur in urban areas, crime waves typically follow. Those individuals that are antagonizing the societal breakdowns are typically the citizens that are ill equipped and unprepared to survive. How can a person survive an urban disaster? Should a person bunker down or evacuate the city? The answer lies in preparedness.

Characteristics of a Survival Homestead

What characteristics go into finding a survival retreat? Author, James Rawles’ provides key characteristics to look for when searching out the perfect acerage for a survival retreat.

Ten Things That Make a Survival Homestead

What you need to know to create a free life with a survival homestead.

Cold Weather Preparedness

As the cold weather is making it’s footprint on lands across America, we should all be reminded of the importance of storing food in the instance of being stuck inside our homes for an unknown amount of time due to snow and ice.  Having a short term supply of food can be achieved by buying a few [...]