Getting Started With Backyard Chickens
Raising backyard chickens is an easy and affordable way to add eggs and meat to your food supply. Just six chickens can provide 2 dozen eggs a week!
Alan Urban
What Type Of Survivalist Are You?
If you’re going to prepare for a disaster, you need to know exactly what type of disaster you’re preparing for. This will help you to focus.
The Survival Acronym
If a disaster strikes your area suddenly and you find yourself frozen in place, unsure of what to do next, you can use the letters in the word “survival” to help. This is known as “The Survival Acronym” or “The Survival Memory Device.” S – Size up the Situation (surroundings, equipment, physical condition).U – Undue Haste Makes Waste and Use Your Senses.R – Remember Where You Are.V – Vanquish Panic and Fear.I – Improvise.V – Value Life.A – Act like the Natives.L – Live by Your Wits or Learn Basic Skills. S – Size up the Situation. This means you … Read More
What Goes in a Bug Out Bag?
Although this site is geared toward people who intend to ride out disasters at home, there may be instances where you need a bug out bag.
What Will You Eat After The Economy Collapses?
My wife was living on the coast of Mississippi when hurricane Katrina struck. I’ll get into the details of her experience in another post, but for now I want to talk about what they ate in the days after the hurricane passed. They were without power for two weeks, but fortunately her father had a generator so they were able to keep the refrigerator and the microwave going. But since there was a limited amount of fuel, they had to start grilling the food in the freezer before it went bad. Over the next several days they ate steaks, hot … Read More
Survival Mindset
When preparing for the worst case scenario, most people focus on storing food, water, medicine, fire starters, and other survival gear. They prepare themselves in every way imaginable, but they never stop long enough to prepare themselves mentally. You might have a year’s supply of food and water along with all kinds of solar powered technology, but if you are not prepared to face the end of the world as we know it, if you are not ready to see the system you’ve always relied upon crumble around you, if you are not strong enough to both witness and endure … Read More
Home Invasion Defense 101
None of your preps will matter if someone invades your home and steals your stuff. That’s why it’s so important to think about home invasion defense.
Food Calorie Chart
Are you growing high-calorie foods? If you want to get a substantial amount of calories from your garden, take a look at this food calorie chart.
Surviving Doomsday Review
Are you really prepared to survive anything? Most preppers would have no trouble getting through a simple hurricane and a few days without power. But what about a few weeks without power? Or a few months? What if gangs of looters are going from house to house, taking whatever they want? What if your home has been flattened and you are forced to bug out of the city? Author Richard Duarte asks these questions along with many other tough questions in his book, Surviving Doomsday: A Guide for Surviving an Urban Disaster. He also provides the answers. Richard’s home was … Read More
19 Random Urban Survival Tips
Here are some random urban survival tips. Some of them are tips that didn’t fit in with any of the posts I’ve made so far, but they’re all important.
