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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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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How To Harden Your Home Using the Cheapest Materials on the Market

There are steps you can take at home to make your property harder to enter and to enable you to defend it.

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How to Harvest Clean Drinking Water From a Tree

While everyone knows that you can tap maple trees for their syrup, birch and walnut trees can also be tapped.

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How To House the Whole Family in a SHTF-Emergency

This could be the housing solution preppers are looking for to house multiple family members during a long-term disaster.

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How to Identify Sepsis as Quickly as Possible

Most people don’t really know anything about this condition.

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How to Make a Battery That Lasts (Practically) Forever

If only there was a cheap and simple way to supplement a solar panel array on those cloudy days.

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How to Make a Fire When It’s Raining

Even if the rain has stopped there’s a really good chance that every bit of wood you find is going to be soaking wet. How are you going to create warmth when you need it the most?

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How to Make a Plumber’s Stove on Steroids for Cooking and Warmth

Here’s how to make an alternative heating and cooking source – a Plumber’s Stove.

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How to Make a Powerful Bow in Your Garage for $15

This is how to make a very powerful and effective bow with nothing more than PVC, paracord, and driveway markers.

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How to Make a Stealthy Smokeless Fire

So while you’re learning your wilderness survival techniques, you should think about how well they might work when the wilderness is the least of your problems.

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How to Make an Emergency Shelter in 5 Minutes or Less

Your footing gives way and you body is immersed in 45º water. The clock is ticking. Within 15 minutes, you’ll begin to lose dexterity in your fingers. You need shelter and fire.

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How to Make Firebricks (logs) and Wood Stove Logs for Free!

Here’s an way to turn all the spam mail you receive in the mailbox into fuel! Learn how to make firebricks with these easy steps!

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