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The Advantage of the Suburban Farmers Market

You might not think there is one.  At first glance you might say, the vegetables are not organic, they have less flavor because they are factory farm grown, they have steroids, etc.  But there is one advantage of the suburban farmers market.  They get fresh shipments of vegetables every day for purchase at a discounted price.  This […]

Lone Wolf or Survivalist Group?

As many of the readers know, I have joined a meetup.com group for preparedness.  I joined for a couple of reasons.  First, as a “lone wolf” I was looking to connect with like minded people to hopefully teach and learn from them.  The second reason I joined, admittedly, was to possibly become part of a […]

Build Process Into Your Preparedness

So, yesterday, on The Survival Mom’s blog, she had a post on “What SurvivalMom Can Learn from Starbucks” about survival or prepping.  I read it with interest, because I try to think outside the box when it comes to my prepping and other areas in my life.  It helps me to justify what I am doing as […]

Unlikely Places to Find Survival Information Online

Here is a small list of unlikely places to find information on survival.  This is more fun I think, to most of the readers than informative, but when I started looking around for these I only found a few places online that I could draw from. Primer Magazine Online The Anatomy of an Emergency How […]

Your Home Crisis Guidebook for a Survival Situation or a SHTF

Family.  They say family is one of the most important things in life. If it is just you and the wife or you and the husband, they are family. If you have kids, and your kids have kids, now that’s a family, and no doubt they are very important to you. If you are reading […]

Practical and Affordable Prepping, at the SurvivalBlog.com

JWR‘s blog, this morning has a good post on Practical and Affordable Prepping, that I think is worth the read.  Here is a snippet and the link. The purpose of this submission is to establish that we all have real lives to lead while we remain vigilant about all possibilities, most of which others choose […]

The Core Concepts of Modern Survivalism, by Jack Spirko

Sitting in LAX airport, or any airport for that matter I enjoy catching up with my podcasts. To me the airports are “hurry up and wait” situations that offer some much needed personal downtime while I wait for the plane. Fortunately, today as well, I have WiFi access on the plane and can write a […]

The homeless as survivalists

I was in NYC yesterday, as I often am. As I was walking to the hotel to visit a friend that was in town, I saw several homeless people as I usually do near Port Authority. Today, however, I took particular attention to them, noted what they were wearing, how they were carrying their gear, […]