Self Reliance

2012 Urban Garden in Review, by an Anonymous Contibutor

February 22, 2013
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It was a great year! By comparison to last year and before our urban garden did very well. I credit a lot of our success to trial&error over the last several years, learning as we go, reading and researching why this or that happened etc. Before going into details some background is needed: We live [...]

Tagged as: Gardening, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance

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Hurricane Sandy Updates via Facebook

November 1, 2012
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Hey everyone, I just want to let you all know that I am making personal updates about Hurricane Sandy on my facebook page and will be putting together more comprehensive posts for the blog later.  Please check out the page if you have not at www.facebook.com/SuburbanSurvivalBlog. Thanks and for those that can get to the page [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Hurricane Sandy, Natural Disasters, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

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The Modular Survival Kit, Cache Valley Prepper

August 1, 2012
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The Modular Survival Kit is a fairly simple concept.  And one that I know that the military is familiar with, but not one that I’ve heard get much attention in the prepping community.  Once I had built up my kit, as any aspiring survivalist would do, I did a few practice bug-outs in the form [...]

Tagged as: Bug Out, Bug Out Vehicle, Bugging In, Bugging Out, EDC, Gear, Guest Post, Modular, Modular Gear, Modular Kit, Modular Survival Kit, Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, survival, survival kit, Survivalism, Weather

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Survival Heater for Your Car, My Test

February 13, 2012
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I know. Everyone has done a YouTube lesson on how to build one of these inexpensive emergency heaters for your car. Honestly, I had to try it for myself to be sure that it “worked.” Many people use empty steel coffee cans, some people improvise and use what they might have in the garage as [...]

Tagged as: DIY, Gear, Improvised Gear, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance, Weather

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Test Cooking with Preps, Breakfast for Dinner, Part One

February 10, 2012
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I like breakfast for dinner.  I do.  I have James Bond’s fetish for scrambled eggs.  Give me scrambled eggs, an omelet, or frittata any day of the week and I am a happy guy.  So, tonight, we make breakfast for dinner.  I have picked up some tester / samples from various vendors and I am going [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Cooking, Food, Food Storage, Preparedness, Self Reliance, skills

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Look Who’s Coming to Dinner

January 31, 2012
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(Note: This article is both a stand-alone piece as well as a response to the article “Who would you bug out with?” that appeared recently on this site.) ”If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when?” – Rabbi Hillel (Jewish scholar & theologian, 30 BCE – 9 [...]

Tagged as: civil unrest, Guest Post, Levels of Awareness, Preparedness, Psychology, Self Reliance

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Of Leadership, Reliability, Responsibility – and Preparedness

December 20, 2011
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Reality check: Some people are just more prepared for events of life than others. “Events” can be anything from a personal emergency to an unexpected home expense to a family emergency to a natural disaster to something good like a great job or investment or trip opportunity when it presents itself. “Prepared” can be anything [...]

Tagged as: General, Guest Post, Preparedness, Self Reliance

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2011 Urban Farming in Review

December 13, 2011
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2011 was a pretty good year farming wise at home. For an urban (I do consider myself urban) backyard container farm we did pretty good. And more importantly, we learned a lot to apply for next year. Starting out we added several new containers to our farm. I was surprised my wife went along with [...]

Tagged as: Gardening, Guest Post, Preparedness, prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

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Coupons for Preparation, by ShaneTheNurse

November 23, 2011
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My kids will tell you if it is not on sale and we do not have a coupon we do not need it. Having this mentality will help you to save money and build your stockpile of life sustaining goods. I am sure by now many of us have seen shows on television with people [...]

Tagged as: Couponing, Coupons, Preparations, Preparedness, Preps, Self Reliance

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Who Will Help me Eat My Bread?

October 4, 2011
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There is an old children’s story about someone who asks “Who will help me make my bread?” No one helps. No one helps plant the wheat, harvest the wheat, mill the wheat, make the dough, or bake it. But at the end when it is asked who will help eat the bread everyone comes running [...]

Tagged as: Barter, Bartering, Food, Money, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivalism

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