There are many advantages to having a trailer to bug out in if a SHTF scenario occurs or a disaster strikes.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson was a Special Forces Medic, EMT and ACLS-certified, with comprehensive training in wilderness survival, rescue, and patient-extraction. He is a Certified Master Herbalist and a graduate of the Global College of Natural Medicine of Santa Ana, CA. A graduate of the U.S. Army’s survival course of SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape), Mr. Johnson also successfully completed the Montana Master Food Preserver Course for home-canning, smoking, and dehydrating foods.
Mr. Johnson dries and tinctures a wide variety of medicinal herbs taken by wild crafting and cultivation, in addition to preserving and canning his own food. An expert in land navigation, survival, mountaineering, and parachuting as trained by the United States Army, Mr. Johnson is an ardent advocate for preparedness, self-sufficiency, and long-term disaster sustainability for families. He and his wife survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Cross-trained as a Special Forces Engineer, he is an expert in supply, logistics, transport, and long-term storage of perishable materials, having incorporated many of these techniques plus some unique innovations in his own homestead.
Mr. Johnson brings practical, tested experience firmly rooted in formal education to his writings and to our team. He and his wife live in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with their three cats.
Why It Is Imperative to Maintain Fishing Gear for Long-Term Survival
In a disaster or a collapse, you’ll need to feed the family. Fishing gear that is both clean and maintained in working order will not then be leisure toys: your gear will be survival tools.
Light It Up: The Ultimate Survival Flashlight: the Fenix TK-25
The Fenix TK-25 has some features that you will be able to use to your advantage whether out hunting and camping, or in the midst of some disaster such as a hurricane or snowstorm.
3 Emergency Uses for Plastic Sheeting
It is important for you to pick up a few rolls of plastic sheeting for your home that can benefit you and your family not just for use in a greenhouse, but in a disaster, as well.
Every Member of Your Prepper Group MUST Have This On Them When the SHTF
Having these items pre-packaged cuts down on response time and gives the responders more of an advantage in properly caring for the wounded.
Off Grid Cooking: 4 Types of Camping Stoves and Why You Need Them
Let’s take a look at four types of stoves: Sterno, heat-tablet, propane, and liquid fuel.
Machetes Are All the Rage Right Now. Here’s the Best One to Put in Your Backpack
If you have to “bust brush,” you could use more than a walking stick. This is where a good machete made by Gerber will come in handy.
Creative Prepping: 5 Everyday Items That Do Double Duty in an Emergency
Let’s cover a few tools that you can carry and some of their subtle uses…not necessarily the uses for which they’re designed. You want things that are convenient to carry and usable, yet not for everyone’s eyes.
Brace Yourself! Why You Need These Six Braces in Your Emergency Supplies
One of the most common sets of problems deals with orthopedics and injuries to the joints during exercise. There are a number of good reasons for this, and we are going to go into them a touch and cover braces.
Independence Day Wishes and a Salute to Our Ready Nutrition Readers
Our Independence Day links us to the actions and sacrifices of those who went before us. We owe it to them to carry on that legacy: to survive what is coming, and the triumph of not allowing it to turn our hearts from goodness and the pursuit of happiness and peace. Our sincere thanks to all the readers of Ready Nutrition who read, comment and share our posts.