Put simply, our body needs vitamins and nutrients from fruits and vegetables in order to thrive. This carries through to the foods we eat during disasters. By making healthier choices now about what we stockpile, we can ensure that the food we eat during a catastrophe truly nourishes our bodies.
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.
Keeping Warm in Winter
Heating the cottage with just the firebox on the range and no mains back-up made you very inventive at keeping the heat in.
Keeping Your Home Secure in a Technological World
Emerging technology once viewed as a convenience, should now be perceived as a double edged sword. Take a look at a few online features criminals are using as a way to gain access to the content in your home and find some ways to use this technology against them.
Keeping Your Mind Present in the Midst of Chaos
Mental preparedness is often the most over-looked aspect of prepping. Being able to maintain your presence of mind in an emergency is far more valuable than any number of canned beans.
Kefir: Your Solution To Milk Without Refrigeration
Kefir is a healthful yogurt substitute you can make yourself – and it can be stored without refrigeration.
Know Your Enemy: 9 Prepper Truths You Need for Defense Preparations
Know the things that drive us (from positive and negative drives), and understand these inherent weaknesses and drives are common to all mankind. When you have that base covered, conduct good intelligence…it is not found…it is made. Make good intelligence out of recon conducted on your enemy…those that threaten your home and family.
Knowle Cottage
When they were tiny it was easier, they would all get dumped in, washed and dried in the parlour in front of the range. When they got older and developed sensibilities they bathed in the scullery.
Land Navigation: Finding Your Way in an Urban Environment SHTF Style
An urban environment is the most challenging of all places, because of the amount of people you’ll have to deal with and the number of confusing (and dangerous) situations that will arise when the SHTF.
Last Minute Preparedness: How To Prep For Sheltering in Place
If the time comes when you have to shelter in place, these 15 critical planning tips could greatly increase your chance of surviving.
Lead Exposure From Firearm Use Is More Common Than You Think
There’s one aspect of gun safety that is often overlooked.