Skills

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Daily Disaster Drills and The 5 C’s of Survivability

Emergency preparedness doesn’t cover the entire scope of self-reliance. However, it often times serves as a gateway or starting line for deeper self-reliance and Doing the Stuff skills.

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Disarmed? How to Create DIY Self-Defense Tools With Items in Your Home

When guns aren’t available or allowed, using random items at hand may be your best choice in a bad spot for taking back control of a situation.

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Do Preppers Suffer from Our Own Normalcy Bias?

Do preppers have our own normalcy bias?

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Essential Books For Rebuilding Civilization Part Two: Medical Skills

While most of you will never get around to attending 8 years of medical school, anyone can teach themselves a basic understanding of the medical field.

Essential Skills, Tasks, and Training for Preppers and Survivalists: Part 1

To survive and thrive as you and your family develop physically, mentally, and spiritually to well-round yourselves and prepare for any disaster that arises.

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Extending Your Growing Season in Winter: Can Your Garden Survive the Cold?

If you live in cold weather regions, extending your growing season with hoop houses and cold frames could save your crop and even your life, if it means the difference in whether or not your family has enough food to eat.

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Another Year Of Gardening Failure (And What I Learned)

These are just nine of my failures this year. I also mysteriously lost a couple of pomegranate trees to an unknown pathogen, lost chickens to raccoons, misplaced my good pruning shears…

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Firearm Training: How Draw Drills Will Sharpen your Handgun Combat Skills

All the certifications in the world are no substitute for the basic fundamentals of marksmanship and the ability to employ them.

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Fit to Fight: Preparing the Body and Mind

Mental discipline and concentration are premium for any fighter to succeed; but you must train.

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Five Self-Defense Tricks That Could Save Your Life

No one plans on being attacked in the course of their daily routine but the reality is that danger could find you anywhere and at any time. When you find yourself in a precarious situation, do you know how to defend yourself?

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Five Essential Tools for Fixing Your Clothes on the Cheap

Sometimes quality and appearance aren’t at the top of our priorities, and we need to get things fixed fast and cheap.

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Foraging Edible Weeds in Urban Food Deserts

Looking back out at my backyard, I’m wondering how much more food is really out there that I have no idea about.

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