This is What We Are Up Against!

by ST | Jun 7, 2011 | Personal

We, as prep­pers, by def­i­n­i­tion think ahead about “what if” sce­nar­ios. I grant that some peo­ple take prepar­ing to unrealistic/unlikely extremes (I high­ly doubt an alien inva­sion or a zom­bie apoc­a­lypse for exam­ple). And as prep­pers we gen­er­al­ly do... Read more

Rice and Beans? Beans and Rice?

by ST | May 31, 2011 | Cooking, Food, Guest Posts, Personal

Rice and beans – unques­tion­ably the top two items most often cit­ed as “must-haves” in any prep­pers pantry. Even for non-prep­pers, when dis­cus­sion of hav­ing a few extra food sup­plies on hand comes up (and this comes up a lot more these days in a great many... Read more

Man’s Best Friend? Or Worst Enemy?

by ST | May 24, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Urban Survival

An odd occur­rence hap­pened to me this win­ter. The short ver­sion: Late one cold evening we heard an odd sound at the front door. Our dog start­ed bark­ing. I didn’t see any­one at the door. No one rang the bell. So final­ly I care­ful­ly cracked open the door and a... Read more

Reality check — Part 2: Hunting In A Post-SHTF World

by ST | May 17, 2011 | Personal

Hunt­ing in the for­est or field for meat is a com­mon theme in survival/prepping. Many prep­pers are already active sport hunters. Either as a sup­ple­ment to lim­it­ed com­mer­cial meat sup­plies or as the main or sole source of meat, the expec­ta­tion to be able to... Read more

Reality check — Part 1: Farming/Growing Your Own Food

by ST | May 10, 2011 | Food, Gardening, Guest Posts, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

Every survival/prepping web­site and book has some sec­tion on grow­ing your own food dur­ing a SHTF event.  There are ads for seed com­pa­nies show­ing a per­son push­ing a shop­ping cart down isles of emp­ty super­mar­ket shelves and the cap­tion reads... Read more