Prepping, Moving, and Lots of Stuff. Protecting Your OPSEC

by suburban | Sep 19, 2015 | Bug In, Food Storage, Gear, Personal, Preparedness, Prepping, Survival Gear

Well, after many years in the 1 — 1/2 bed­room apart­ment in North­ern NJ, Ms. Prep­per and I recent­ly moved in togeth­er, and into a new home.  Any­one that has accu­mu­lat­ed any amount of stuff, knows that the mere act of pack­ing your stuff and mov­ing... Read more

Square Foot Farming Part 3

by Cameron | May 11, 2015 | Food, Food Storage, Homesteading, Pets, Preparedness, Prepping

This is the third part of a three part arti­cle shar­ing with you my expe­ri­ences with square foot farm­ing… well its not real­ly farm­ing but it involves both gar­den­ing and ani­mal hus­bandry so it may as well be. In part one, I explained some of my expe­ri­ences... Read more

Square Foot Farming Part 2

by Cameron | May 4, 2015 | Food, Food Storage, Homesteading, Pets, Preparedness, Self Reliance

This is the sec­ond part of a three part arti­cle shar­ing with you my expe­ri­ences with square foot farm­ing… its some­thing most sub­ur­ban dwellers can do and its an essen­tial prep­per skill. In part one, I explained some of my expe­ri­ences with gar­den­ing in... Read more

Square Foot Farming Part 1

by Cameron | Apr 27, 2015 | DIY, Food, Food Storage, Gardening, Heirloom Seeds, Homesteading, Preparedness

This is the first of three arti­cles geared toward help­ing a sub­ur­ban or even an urban dweller become more food self suf­fi­cient. It doesn’t take a lot of space to grow food but it does take a dif­fer­ent type of think­ing than the tra­di­tion­al gar­den.... Read more

Dogs as prepper companions

by Cameron | Apr 20, 2015 | Bug In, Bug Out, Food Storage, Gear, General, Natural Disaster, Preparedness

In our mod­ern world, prep­pers need to be con­cerned with guns, ammu­ni­tion, food, gaso­line, med­ical sup­plies… the list goes on and its daunt­ing.  But don’t for­get about the fam­i­ly pets. An often over­looked and very help­ful resource to your preps is a... Read more

The California drought and what it means for you

by Cameron | Apr 10, 2015 | Food, Food Storage, Gardening, Preparedness, Prepping, Water

Cal­i­for­nia is fac­ing one of the worst droughts the state has ever seen…. it is not the first drought, but based on the water lev­els (and pro­ject­ed water lev­els) the state is in dire need of water and water con­ser­va­tion. Gov­er­nor Brown and the... Read more