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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Survival Food Series: Medicinal Plants for the Survival Garden

Plants have been revered through out history for their magical healing powers. In a dire situation where over the counter medicine is no longer available, many will be forced to turn their backs on modern medicine and reacquaint themselves with more homeopathic and natural forms.

Survival Food Series: Secret Survival Garden

Those who have thought of long term emergency situations and how to secure their land, food and possessions, have also thought of how to grow food, yet keep it hidden at the same time. Having your garden in an inconspicuous location will not only ensure OPSEC (operational security), but also to discourage others from seeing what you are growing. Here are some tips on how to achieve the impossible.

Survival Food Series: Three Sisters Technique

The Three Sisters gardening method is a sustainable gardening approach to making the most of space, using companion planting and using plants as a living support. Learn more about the Three Sisters and how to plant it.

Survival Food Series: What To Eat When There Is No Food

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.

In an emergency, your diet could be the one distinguishing factor in what saves your life. Find out why this food source serves a purpose in our survival, and what fat sources are best to store.

Survival Food: Fat Sources For a SHTF Diet

In an emergency, your diet could be the one distinguishing factor in what saves your life. Find out why this food source serves a purpose in our survival, and what fat sources are best to store.

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Survival Food: How To Catch a Fish Without a Hook

In a survival situation, your energy output will play a big part in how successful you are at surviving. This primitive fish trap made from sticks, vines and cordage or paracord is by far the single best method for catching fish.

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Survival Food: Wild Game Recipes

Contrary to popular belief in Western cultures, meat does not originate in a clean, plastic-wrapped piece of Styrofoam. Some families still live a hunting lifestyle, but they are much less common than they used to be.

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Survival Fuel: You Must Have This in Your Disaster Supplies

Being well-nourished during a disaster can mean the difference between powering through the event with strength, stamina, and energy or […]

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Survival Medicine: New Wound-Closure Method That Could Replace Stitches

In a world without medical facilities, open wounds can invite serious, life threatening infections. To the untrained eye, it could cause death. A new invaluable and less invasive medical tool could be the answer to safer and improved wound closure.

Survival of the Most Adaptable

Failure to adapt to a situation could be the difference between survivability or death. Daisy Luther shares some very wise words on this subject and explains how to adjust more quickly to your new reality.

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Survival Preparedness for $100

For $100 you may be surprised what you can get.

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Survival Skills: How to Find Water In the Wild

There will be times when we must draw upon our survival knowledge to help us continue on. Knowing how to find this basic, yet necessary skill could save your life.

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