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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You’ve Got Cooties!

In an extended emergency, having lice is no joking matter and can quickly spread to other group or family members. Equip yourself with the knowledge and tools needed to naturally eradicate lice from the home.

Your Ancestors Had Some Hard Core Survival Instincts… This is How You Can Get Back to Your Roots

When we were hunter-gatherers and even after human settlements such as towns and villages were established thousands of years ago…our ancestors used all of their senses. All of them.

Your Body Will Be Pushed to the Limit in an Emergency – Here’s How to Prepare For It

Physical conditioning is a key factor for you, and the work that you do now will pay off in spades when the time arrives.

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Your Computer May Not Survive a Collapse But These Off-Grid Archiving Strategies Will

Be a custodian of information that will take care of future generations.

Your Home Security Plan Is At Risk Without This Essential Prep

You have valuable possessions and documents that need safeguarding; and without this essential home security prep – all could be lost.

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Your Kale Might Be Making You Sick

It just goes to show you that the only food you can truly trust these days, is the stuff you grow yourself.

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SHTF Dental Care: These Are the Supplies You Need To Survive a Post-Collapse Dental Emergency

In a grid down collapse, there are going to be a lot of problems that will affect the teeth and gums, so the more you know about oral hygiene alternatives now, the better.

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Why a Community Fails: The Missing Piece To a Prepared Community

The simplest way to prevent post-disaster breakdowns in a community is to adopt a solid understanding that each member takes personal responsibility and prepare their own households. The missing piece of the preparedness puzzle is a community that encourages individual readiness. Rather than waiting on someone or an organization to rescue them, they rescue themselves.

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Sustainable in the City: Bloom Where You Are Planted

People are sometimes alienated by the prepping movement when it seems that everything is black and white. That’s why it’s important to take your current situation, warts and all, and work with it.

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Sustainable in the City: Prepping in Small Spaces

Those living in apartments face special challenges with prepping in terms of the space availability, living in population dense areas and planning for urban emergencies. Learn from the experts who are walking the walk and talking the talk.

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The End of My Worlds as I Knew Them

Survivor Jane contributes her experience of moving out of the city and the transition of moving to a small town to become more self sufficient. She gets back to her roots and learns from her homesteading parents. Read more on her incredible story and how she is living as a homesteader.

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Security in the Suburbs

It is possible to survive in suburbia, but preparations must be put in place and neighbors must be on board. Read more on how to better prepare your community shtf-style.

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