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

Bartertown, U.S.A.

by ST | May 3, 2011 | Barter, Economy, Food, Guest Posts, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Barter – To trade by exchange of com­modi­ties rather than by the use of mon­ey. (Source: Dictionary.com. Source loca­tion: Ran­dom House, inc.) Much has been writ­ten about the use of barter in a post SHTF/TEOTWAWKI. event. Even in “mere­ly” a post-finan­cial... Read more

Bare Minimum Gear You Should Have at Your Bug Out Location

by suburban | Apr 22, 2011 | Bug Out, Bug Out Location, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survival Gear

So, after hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with a cou­ple of prep­pers this week, I decid­ed to put togeth­er a list of gear in no par­tic­u­lar order around what you should have at your Bug Out Loca­tion.  Recent­ly I have been chat­ting with a lot of peo­ple around... Read more

Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Four

by suburban | Jan 25, 2011 | Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Okay, in part four Team­work for Sub­ur­ban and Urban Sur­vival, today we talk about a list of skills that we may think are impor­tant for you, your friends, and team to know in a short or long term sur­vival sit­u­a­tion.  As I scour the Inter­net for lists of... Read more

Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Three

by suburban | Jan 19, 2011 | Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Yes­ter­day, I fin­ished up the post by illus­trat­ing the old west.  Wouldn’t it be great to roll up on a small town that is iso­lat­ed from the rest of soci­ety, is self suf­fi­cient, has a great agri­cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty, steel mill, pow­er plant, hon­est... Read more

Teamwork for Suburban and Urban Survival – Part Two

by suburban | Jan 18, 2011 | Preparedness, Self Reliance, suburban survival, Urban Survival

Did you give some thought yes­ter­day to who your friends are and what skills they have?  Are they doc­tors, lawyers, black­smith, vet­eri­nar­i­an, phar­ma­cist, con­struc­tion work­ers, etc?  How about your­self?  What skills do you have?  What... Read more