Preparedness

Is your home prepared for life’s emergencies? A disaster of any kind rarely stops with the initial event and has the capacity to last days or longer. Because of this, it is important to have a well-rounded approach to your preparedness efforts. Our research-based resources on emergency scenarios, emergency checklists, and disaster scenarios offer family-based preparedness advice to create a multi-layered approach so your family can be prepared for anything! Learn more about survival food, potable water, safety and security issues, how to live in an off-grid environment with alternative power and how to get your pet prepared for emergencies.

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Germs Don’t have Brains

At home things get discussed, serious issues are talked about, assurances given when needed and plans made when assurances aren’t enough.

Get Prepped: The Hurricane Primer

It only takes one hurricane for victims to see how quickly their lives can change. The time to prepare for this natural disaster is now and this primer will help get you started.

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Get Ready: America’s Cities Are Cracking Up

If you live in the an urban area, brace yourself for another crazy summer.

Climate Change

Getting Hotter or Getting Colder? Either Way You Need to Step Up Your Preps

Climate change is the one subject that can polarize the guests at a dinner party in one minute flat, but what many people fail to recognize is that both scenarios require us to step up, and in some cases look in a different way, at how we prepare for the future.

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Getting outta Dodge

Getting outta Dodge-what to do when you need to leave.

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Getting The Most From The Cottage Garden

As I’ve said before the garden at Knowle cottage was big, but not huge. It took some creative planting to make sure we produced enough to feed the family.

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Going Rogue: 15 Ways to Detach From the System

We must come to the understanding that there is no true safety net for us to fall into; it’s up to ourselves to get us out trouble.

Granny Spears ‘Herbology’

Unless it was especially serious we relied on remedies passed down to us over the years

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Green Beret’s Trauma Guide: Bandaging and Splinting

In this section of the SHTF trauma care series, he discusses the importance of understanding the basics of bandaging and splinting.

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Grow Buckets Of Calories in a Kiddie Pool or Tub

What if I told you there was a way to grow a few thousand calories in a kiddie pool?

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Guns for Gals: Recommendations from a Green Beret

The single most effective defense occurs when multiple firers concentrate their fires on a target. Therefore, home defense cannot be solely up to the man of the home. Here is a great list for firearms and a few home-defense pointers that the prepper chicks will find most helpful.

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Hand Drill Fire Starting

Using a hand drill to start a fire is a skill that every prepper and survivalist should learn and practice.

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