Category: Preparedness

Preparing For The Grand Solar Minimum Will anyone recognize that a Grand Solar Minimum is apparently coming? And what are they (or you) going to do about it? How much of the food supply might be affected and how to prepare for it? by Anony Mee We engage in a preparedness lifestyle just in case misfortune befalls us.  We often discuss what sorts of events those might be – loss of a job, medical emergencies, wars of various sorts, and how to prepare.  Ken does a survey generally every year on what…

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Prepare To Get Out Of The Cities And Into The ‘Red Zones’ In The Event Of A Worst Case Scenario By Stefan Stanford – All News Pipeline Reports Of Martial Law In The Cities Are Another Reason To Avoid Them Like The Plague While thinking over this past weekend about the huge difference between the left and the right on how the two groups think about Covid-19, lockdowns, vaccinations and everything else now unfolding in America, (with reports of martial law already now coming out as we’ll explore more below),…

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Solar Power System Diagram | 4 Basic Building Blocks from Modern Survival Blog Solar power systems vary widely in their power producing capabilities and complexity. But I wanted to sketch a simple basic solar power system diagram that shows the building blocks. Regardless of a given system’s capacities and specifications, there’s a common thread among most of them: The basic building blocks of its major components. 1. Solar panels 2. Charge controller 3. Battery bank (if off-grid or standalone system) 4. DC to AC inverter for AC power Solar Power…

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The Chauvin Verdict Proved Riots and Intimidation WORK. Expect More of It. by Terry Trahan for The Organic Prepper The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial prompted the writing of this article. No matter what you think of the officer’s actions, this has been a catalytic action in the insurgency or riots and intimidation that we are witnessing now. The Organic Prepper’s Note: I’m the author of the headline, which some may find inflammatory. Let me take a quick moment of Terry’s article to explain what I mean by this. Representative Maxine Waters…

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How to Survive Riots and Civil Unrest by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper As the world seems to be on fire in countries across the planet, the threat of civil unrest and riots certainly feels like it’s increasing. People are responding with rage to perceived injustices, and whether that rage is warranted or not isn’t the point of this article. Often when I write about surviving events like mass shootings or riots, people scoff and say, “That was a false flag perpetrated by government operatives” or “Those people got paid…

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How to Start Prepping: The First 10 Things Every New Prepper Should Do (Some of Them Are FREE!) by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper Before we talk about how to start prepping, let’s take a moment to remind ourselves of why we should be prepping. Over the past decade, here in America… Contaminated water caused a complete loss of municipal services in both Ohio and West Virginia, resulting in almost a million people vying for the stock in local stores. A freak confluence of storms caused a “Superstorm” that took out power to…

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Are You Suffering from Situational Bias? Be HONEST. by Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper We’ve all heard of normalcy bias, a mindset in which people don’t believe that the bad things they see on the news could actually happen to them. But have you heard of situational bias? What’s more, are you perhaps guilty of it yourself? What is situational bias? In the context of prepping and survival, situational bias is a systemic cognitive bias that causes people to believe that their unique situation protects them from the events…

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How to Stay Safe on Public Transport by Rachel Lauren for The Organic Prepper If you don’t have a car, you learn to rely on things like the city bus or your local subway system. You may have heard some horror stories about using these offerings, so here are some tips about how to be prepared and safe on public transport. Uber and Lyft are nice options if it’s just a once-in-a-while thing, but those prices rack up if you use them all the time. So more often than not,…

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8 Reasons You Should Be Collecting Rainwater by Kristen Chapple for The Organic Prepper Collecting rainwater is a vital prep. As an added bonus, it helps you save both money and the environment while preventing possible property damage. Rainwater generally runs out of the downspouts, through the lawns, and into the trench drains during the rainy seasons. This water then goes to the storm drains, channeled to the nearest stream or lake. During heavy storms, this water can destroy properties as it finds its way to the storm drains. Sometimes,…

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The Seven Steps of Survival from Modern Survival Blog [This was contributed a number of years ago. There’s some great insight here with the notion for seven steps of survival ] Guest post by a MSB reader: A few decades ago I took a series of wilderness survival courses through Sea-Grant and our local community schools program. I live in coastal Alaska and the classes were intended to teach survival in high stress wilderness and marine emergency situations, cold-water survival, CPR, wilderness first aid, survival pack, and numerous others. The…

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