Joshua Krause

Joshua Krause was born and raised in the Bay Area. He is a writer and researcher focused on principles of self-sufficiency and liberty at Ready Nutrition. You can follow Joshua's work at our Facebook page or on his personal Twitter. Joshua's website is Strange Danger

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This New Material Could Be a Gamechanger for Outdoorsmen

There are certain technologies on horizon that may be poised to replace the traditional tent/sleeping bag combo with something significantly lighter.

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How to Filter Dirty Water with Charcoal

It’s a good idea to learn as many methods of filtration as you can, because the situations you might find yourself in without clean water, are highly variable.

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Coca-Cola Caught Paying Nutrition “Experts” to Recommend Soda

To parade yourself as a health expert while subtly influencing your readers to buy something you know is unhealthy, is pretty of despicable.

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5 Overlooked First Aid Items You Should Add to Your Kit

Band-aids and alcohol wipes are nice, and they’re adequate for most minor scrapes and cuts, but they’re simply not enough for any severe injury.

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Have You Ever Wondered Why Gardening Feels so Good?

It’s safe to say that modern life has done more than just separate us from mother nature. It has also removed us from an environment that is essential to our well being.

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The Crop Yields Found in Vertical Farming Will Blow Your Mind

This vertical farm is what community wide preparedness would like. If our society was serious about sustainability, and reluctant to rely on an aging and vulnerable infrastructure for its needs, greenhouses like this would be everywhere.

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Six Books on Plant Foraging You Won’t Want to Miss

Of all the skills a prepper might attain, I think the ability to forage for plants may be one of the most coveted. Not because it’s all that special, but because it’s one of the more difficult skills you could master.

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Could This Be the Perfect Generator for Preppers?

These machines are extremely versatile, very small and quiet, simple, and pretty cheap and easy to build. In fact, if there were a cataclysmic collapse of civilization, this is the one engine that anyone could build from scrap.

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New Study Finds Store Brand Supplements Are Garbage

It may not come as a surprise to many of you, that a recent study conducted by the New York attorney general’s office, has found that some store brand supplements don’t supplement much of anything.

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How to Spot the Sociopath in Your Midst

It doesn’t matter if they’re a member of your family, or someone you’ve known for years. If they think it’s in their best interest to hurt you, and they think they can get away with it, that’s exactly what they’ll do.

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Brazil’s Water Crises: See How One Disaster Can Turn into Many

The truth is, it’s never just one disaster that causes a collapse. It’s often a series of problems that compound and feed each other, begetting more calamities until the system buckles.

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Five Essential Tools for Fixing Your Clothes on the Cheap

Sometimes quality and appearance aren’t at the top of our priorities, and we need to get things fixed fast and cheap.

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