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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Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Water in an Emergency

After the initial danger from an earthquake or hurricane or other disaster has passed, the most significant risk to your family’s health could very likely be contaminated water.

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Top 12 Homemade Firestarters For Survival And Camping

Everyone needs to learn how to start a fire and pack lightweight materials in their bugout bag or get home bag to help accomplish the task.

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Top 13 Uses for Pine Trees in Woodcraft and Self-Reliance

Winter is on the way and many of your favorite edible and medicinal plants will fade into the landscape. But trees, they’ll stick around all four seasons. Now is the time to locate these valuable resources before their foliage covers the forest floor.

Top 20 Prepping and Survival Sites

Survival and prepping have come a long way since I first started Ready Nutrition. In that time a lot of websites have been created and these are some of the best prepper sites out there!

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Trail Signs – Communicate Secretly

What does the CIA and a hobo have in common? Both love secret communications. And if you’re on the trail, it’s a good idea to know a few of their methods.

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Trash to Treasure: 6 Everyday Items Will Be Worth Their Weight in Gold in an Emergency

Recycling and scrounging are two skills it would behoove you to develop prior to a collapse.

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Treating Burns – When There Is No Doctor

You were out for a walk in the woods and while returning to your campsite you discover that your duck hunting partner has burned himself on the campfire…

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Treating Cactus Injuries Is Harder Than You Think. Here’s Why.

Those thick sharp spines aren’t what you should be worried about. It’s the spines you can’t see that will keep you up at night (literally).

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Tsunamis Are an Underrated Threat to Western Nations

It’s been a long time since these waves devastated our shores, but that may change in the near future.

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Turn a Car Battery Into an Emergency Power Source For the Home

Prepare and plan for the emergencies that you may be able to forecast for your own home in the midst of a disaster and lay in your tools and supplies.

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Turn Your Trash Into Treasures With Fiberglass Resin

One of the most under appreciated crafting skills, is working with resins and epoxies. If you’re not familiar resin based materials, then you’re missing out.

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Turn Your Yard Waste Into Fuel With a Wood Gas Generator

Having a running vehicle is a huge advantage during any grid-down scenario, and you’ll be one of the lucky few working vehicle, long after Mad Max runs out of gas.

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