Whether you choose to get started with chicks or eggs, quail are an easy way to provide sustainable meat even in small spaces. They’re prolific layers, can be eaten without the meat becoming tough at any time during their lives, and are a great way to get into poultry for the small scale homesteader.
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.
Sustainable in the City: A Guide to Looting When the SHTF (And Your Counter-Strategies)
Looting after a disaster is a reality, so understanding and accepting it as such is important now – so that you are fully prepared to deal with it if ever confronted by such a situation.
Sustainable in the City: Community Solidarity When the SHTF
Educating the masses on the importance of emergency preparedness, setting up protocols, and cooperating with existing disaster organization’s procedures will help the community as a whole pool resources and sustain themselves in times of long-term recovery.
Sustainable Living: A Primer on Batteries for Use with Solar Storage
Ready Nutrition guys and gals, this article is being posted to address questions posed by one of the readers, as well as any others who might want to know about batteries for use with solar panels.
Sustainable Prepping: 5 Alternative Energy Types for When the SHTF
Let’s cover some methods to generate energy and provide power, and discuss the positive and negative aspects of each one.
Sweeten Up Your Pantry: The Best Types of Sugar for Your Stockpile
With the holidays right around the corner, now is the time to add some less processed, non-GMO sugar to your pantry. Here’s what you need to know.
Take Action: How Immediate Action Drills Can Reduce Reaction Times in Emergencies
The only thing more important than reaction time is reacting effectively, and not suffering from the “paralysis of analysis,” or staying rooted in place and doing nothing. Practice what you are going to do in a life-threatening situation in each of these areas of your day.
Take the Frustration Out of Chopping Firewood With This Quick Tip
Both of these methods are pretty useful for making your firewood chopping session a little shorter, and a lot less tedious.
Tech Company Develops the World’s First EMP-Proof Wallpaper
Someday soon, turning your house into an EMP proof, counter-surveillance bunker may be no more difficult, nor any more expensive than a home makeover.
Testing Precious Metals for Long-Term Preparations
Learn tried-and-true methods to test jewelry and precious metals to ensure that your investments are lucrative ones.
Thanksgiving In a Can
Nothing says the holidays like the gathering of friends and family. And at any gathering,
food is the centerpiece for these holiday festivities. Planning to have food for the holidays, even in a short or long term emergency is something to think about. Not only does holiday foods provide nutrition, but will also carry on traditions and be a morale booster in harder times.
Take Shelter: An Unexpected Prepper Movie You Must See
Writer and director Jeff Nichols set out to make a movie about human fear and anxiety, but wound up making something that I think most preppers can totally relate to.