2011 Urban Farming in Review

by ST | Dec 13, 2011 | Gardening, Guest Posts, Preparedness, Prepping, Self Reliance, Urban Survival

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... Read more

What’s Missing in Your Food Storage

by suburban | Nov 11, 2011 | Personal, Preparedness, Prepping

A very short post today… So, I took it upon myself to to re-arrange my food stor­age last night, repack some of it, con­sol­i­date some of it, and just make it a bit more orga­nized.  Hon­est­ly, it is still not where I want it.  How­ev­er, I need­ed to make... Read more

It’s All About the Jobs

by Prepperjim | Nov 2, 2011 | Civil Unrest, Crime, Economy, Gold and Silver, Money, Personal, Prepping

I read this arti­cle and became real­ly con­cerned, fright­ened even. The fig­ures from pay­roll tax­es report­ed to the Social Secu­ri­ty Admin­is­tra­tion on jobs and pay are, in a word, awful. Even more alarm­ing is this graph with the title “Few­er Jobs,... Read more

The Time Is Now, and It’s Not Too Late

by suburban | Oct 21, 2011 | Economy, Food, Preparedness, Prepping

I’m sit­ting in anoth­er damn air­port.  Not bitch­ing, how­ev­er, just anoth­er damn air­port.  I have to rant a bit.  The time is now.  The time is now if you are not a prep­per to prep.  The con­ver­sa­tions I have had with friends who are... Read more

100, no 200+ Items a Prepper Must Have for Survival and Barter

by suburban | Oct 7, 2011 | Barter, Gear, Preparedness, Prepping, Survivalism

This post was just updat­ed for clar­i­ty, accu­rate links, and fur­ther defined.  This list has NOT been bro­ken down into cat­e­gories, and is sim­ply expand­ed from it’s orig­i­nal for­mat from the 2014 update, almost 10 years ago. Updat­ed Feb­ru­ary 24th,... Read more