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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15 Items That Should Be In Your Vehicle During the Winter

Winter brings about erratic weather patterns and chances are that we may be caught in them while we are driving. Having an emergency kit in our vehicles will help to ensure our basic needs are met.

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10 Seeds You Need for the Survival Garden

Survival seeds are one of those long-term preparedness measures that every family should have. If the days come when a survival garden is needed, the family will be happy to have invested in such an important prep item. 

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The Bug-Out Bag Meal Plan

Do you have the best foods to get you through those critical 72-hours?

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15 Tips to Get Safely Home Following an EMP

An EMP has hit while you are traveling home from work. What do you do? Are you ready? This step-by-step plan may save your life.

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4 Ways the Pine Tree Can Save Your Life

Nature has all that is needed to survive. Even if wild game, berries, and plants cannot be found, there are still edible choices to be found.

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10 Tips To Teach Kids About Internet Safety

Our children live in such a drastically different world as we grew up in. Dangers seem to be around every corner, and the Internet has invited those dangers into our homes and our children’s bedrooms.

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27 Survival Uses for Common Mullein Besides Cowboy Toilet Paper

As you can see, Common Mullein has many more uses than emergency roadside TP. Take a look…

5 Common Sports Items You Can Use to Protect Yourself in an Emergency

This article is for those who can’t afford the brand name tactical gear or are looking for frugal and inexpensive ways to add protective gear to their reserves.

A Step-By-Step Guide For How To Make a Kearny Fallout Meter

Learn how to measure your daily dose of radiation by constructing this electroscope. These step-by-step plans and instructions are all you need to make your own Kearny fallout meter.

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3 Uses a Stationary Bike Has When the Grid Goes Down

If you find yourself living through a long term disaster, where the new way of life is living off the grid, then the sooner you can begin learning creative solutions to adapt to this way of life, the better off you will be.

13 Disorders Caused by Lack of Water

Most people don’t think they need to worry about dehydration. But there is a chronic form of dehydration that does not have the sudden and intense nature of the acute form.

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10 Dehydrator Meals for Your Prepper Pantry

I love having some “just-add-water” meals on hand for those busy days when I need to cook something fast.

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