Category: Preparedness

3 Easy Ways to Take Herbal Tinctures and Help the Medicine Go Down

Randolph Jason

3 Easy Ways to Take Herbal Tinctures and Help the Medicine Go Down by Sara Tipton for Ready Nutrition Tinctures bypass the need to digest entire herbs in the gut and are easily absorbed by the body. Because they are concentrated, the taste leaves a lot to be desired. Here are 3 easy ways to dilute the flavor and help the medicine go down. As people turn away from taking pills and the pharmaceutical companies’ side effect-riddled remedies, many look to herbal tinctures as a more natural and holistic approach…

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60% of Americans Do NOT Have an Emergency Fund. They’re One Missed Paycheck From Disaster

Randolph Jason

60% of Americans Do NOT Have an Emergency Fund. They’re One Missed Paycheck From Disaster By Daisy Luther for The Organic Prepper GNN Note – Translation – If they don’t the where with all to have an emergency fund they probably don’t have a lot of supplies in their home. 60% of the people around you, right now, have the potential to become extremely violent within the next 3 days if something were to go horribly wrong and supply lines shut down. Let’s not forget, these folks are looking to…

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PREPAREDNESS: A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT FOR YOUR CAR

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PREPAREDNESS: A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT FOR YOUR CAR by Mac Slavo for SHTFPlan It’s time to get your winter survival kit upgraded and thoroughly audited. Before the first winter storm hits, you should audit your car’s winter survival kit to make sure you’ve got what you need and nothing is missing or expired. If you want the guesswork taken out of preparing a winter survival kit for your car, that’s an option that is available. Ready America has a cold-weather survival kit for one person and it costs less than $65. However, if…

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Water Source & Storage is Critical (Level 3 Preparedness)

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Water Source & Storage is Critical (Level 3 Preparedness) by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog “Prepping and Preparedness 3” is a level of being prepared for up to 1 year. Check the series overview for my logic and reasoning why I split it the way that I did. Sourcing, Transporting, & Storing Water | #1 Priority You can store water fairly easily for the time frames of most aftermath scenarios of disruption. Level 1 & 2 preparedness will have you covered for nearly any likely emergency or disaster. That…

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Adventures in Beekeeping

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Adventures in Beekeeping by K. in Tennessee for Survival Blog I’ve been a regular reader of SurvivalBlog.com for years and had developed an interest in keeping bees. I started researching online, got a book or two from the library, and after a few years felt I was ready to give it a try. Then we moved 800 miles away, bought some land, built a house, and started a little hobby farm in southern Appalachia. Life has funny ways of getting in the way, but I’m much happier for it, and…

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Food Storage: The Basics

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Food Storage: The Basics by Pete Thorsen for Survival Blog More and more people are seeing the common sense in having some stored food on hand in case of emergencies. Many of these people are not preppers but just want to have the peace of mind knowing they have some extra food on hand for “just in case.” The only problem for some is the question of “Where to start?” With food it is an easy start. Well, then again, maybe not so easy after all. If you decide to…

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What to Do (and NOT Do) If You’re Driving During a Flash Flood

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What to Do (and NOT Do) If You’re Driving During a Flash Flood By Jenny Jayne for The Organic Prepper Many people still have to venture out on the roads, even if there’s a flash flood watch. We have obligations like school and work that keep us driving through sub-optimal weather even when it would be safer to stay home. What if, despite watching the weather, you and your family become trapped? With flash floodwaters rising around your car and filling the roads, you have to act quickly. What’s the…

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Two-Way Radio for Your Retreat

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Two-Way Radio for Your Retreat by Tunnel Rabbit for Survival Blog Around here, in this part of the American Redoubt, everybody and their brother, including Bubba and the Back Woods Boys, may have access to a Baofeng, or an older dusty radio transceiver unit sitting in a box somewhere that was pulled out of their retired logging rig.  It could be CB, or VHF, or a Baofeng.  I know, because for years ‘we’ have promoted their use, and program radios for whomsoever will buy one.  Who knows what’ll happen, so…

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Emergency Freeze Dried Food | Tips Before You Purchase

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Emergency Freeze Dried Food | Tips Before You Purchase by Ken Jorgustin for Modern Survival Blog Last night we had “Pasta Primavera” for dinner. It came from our emergency freeze dried food storage. And you know what? It tasted delicious! You all should be rotating your long term food storage. In other words, you should be eating it. And then replacing it. Some foods have a much longer shelf life than others. So those foods might not be rotated (consumed) as often. One example is “freeze dried” food (it lasts…

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SELCO: Hunger vs. Habit (and How It Affects Your Performance in Survival Situations)

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SELCO: Hunger vs. Habit (and How It Affects Your Performance in Survival Situations) by Selco for The Organic Prepper Having enough food stored is an important topic in prepping, but we fail to go deeper into the topics of food and hunger because of the way of modern living today. What does it actually mean to “be hungry?” Well, again, because of the habits that most of us have today being hungry usually means that we are hungry if we do not consume something all the time. So it is…

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