Dehydrating food without electricity, no problem. Dehydrating as a way to preserve food has been around for many centuries. It is a good way to set food aside when food is scarce or out of season. Dried food takes up less space and doesn’t weigh as much as fresh food. With today’s electrical dehydrators, dehydrating […]
Preserving Herbs With Salt – Taste Summer All Year Round Fresh herbs add a wonderful flavor to your food like nothing else. But what if there are no fresh herbs around? What if it is in the dead of winter, and your cat knocked over the pot of basil you were growing in the windowsill, and you […]
Building Shelter Out of Everyday Materials The importance of having a safe shelter is second only to water and food. Even though modern homes do an excellent job of keeping out the elements, if there is a power outage during a storm the temperatures drop drastically. There have been incidences of people dying from hypothermia […]
Dental Hygiene – Cleaning Your Teeth without a Toothbrush or Toothpaste Keeping your mouth clean is more important than not offending the people nearby with bad breath and gross teeth. When it comes to mouth health, it can be vital in how well you can function. If the SHTF and you’re struggling to survive, it would make […]
Learn how to make your own Grazing Box for Chickens Chickens love eating plants. The problem is they are not very discriminating on whether or not to avoid your flower bed. If you let them have free rein in your yard, you might have bar patches of soil where your plants used to be. I […]
Sore Muscle Remedies We all know the feeling of sore muscles. Sometimes it’s the slightly sore “my muscles feel kind of tight” variety and sometimes it is more along the lines of “if I walk down these flight of stairs it might literally kill me” type. Whether the soreness comes from spending a beautiful day […]
Homemade Cough Remedy by Winnie The seasons are changing. As the weather gets colder my thoughts are towards s preparing for winter. One of the things that I worry about is how not to catch the virus of the week. Although I am really careful about washing my hands, not touching door knobs in public […]
Home Made Weed Killer They are everywhere where they shouldn’t be. Noxious weeds can be found in every nook and cranny in my yard. They are persistent and I’m convinced that they will still be around when everything else on earth dies. It will be a world ruled by weeds and cockroaches with the occasional over […]
Survival Cement, a.k.a Being Primitive Isn’t so Bad In the Southwest deserts, there are Anasazi ruins in the cliff walls that have been there for over 1000 years that are basically intact. The materials that they used to construct the walls were readily available. With a little but of clay-rich mud, grass and water, you […]
Preparing a 72 Kit In the event of an emergency or natural disaster, often it takes two or three days before assistance comes. If you have prepared a 72 hour kit for you and each of your family members, it can be the difference between surviving comfortably and putting yourself in a dire situation. I found on […]
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