If you live in cold weather regions, extending your growing season with hoop houses and cold frames could save your crop and even your life, if it means the difference in whether or not your family has enough food to eat.
News and Commentary
‘Allergy Laws’ Come into Force Across Europe
There has been no direction on how the information has to be conveyed to the customers, and some people feel this is going to cause confusion.
U.S. Ranked 30th in the Safest Countries to Give Birth In
Considering the cost of healthcare in the United States and the fact that we lead the world in medical research and development, where neonatal deaths are concerned it seems those things make no difference at all.
[Infograph] Emergency Comm Devices Explained
Consider, for a moment, what our lives would be like without access to communication channels telling us what is going on? Choosing the proper communication device is a big decision and completely dependable on your location and type of disaster. This infograph is great way to decide which comm device is good for you.
12 Days of Christmas Cookies: Toffee Squares
On the second day of Christmas, My true love sent to me Two Toffee Squares, And a cookie shaped like […]
12 Days of Christmas Cookies: Spritz Trees
On the first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me A spritz cookie shaped like a Christmas […]
Superbugs to Kill ‘More Than Cancer’ by 2050
A stark warning, and one that needs to be dealt with urgently if we are not going to be flung back to the medical Dark Ages.
How to Build a Winter Home Emergency Kit
There’s a lot that goes into a winter home emergency kit and while you probably have many of these supplies around in one form or another, having them together and ready for a winter disaster is vital to getting through a disaster in the freezing cold successfully.
Borax: Its Many Uses
A naturally-occurring mineral also known as sodium borate, Borax is an eco-friendly cleaning solution featuring a host of other benefits. If your emergency or camping kit needs another component, check out some of the white stuff’s many uses.
Book Review: Expatriates, by James Wesley Rawles
If you’re looking for a survival novel with a lot of technical and tactical information, as well as some moral lessons, check out Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. It’s a work of fiction, but it’s loaded with solid information that many will be able to apply to their own preparedness endeavours.
Eat Fat Get Fat…What’s so Difficult to Understand?
I have always been solidly built, I remember clearly my mother telling me I was “built for comfort, not for speed”