Author: denob

You may have heard the recent news about the State of Emergency in Lethbridge Alberta. The situation there went from bad to horrible in only a matter of hours. Here is a quick rundown of the timeline: Tuesday – the city issued a statement saying they were having trouble with the water plant keeping up,…

A Few Tips on How to Make your Camping Trip a Bit more Comfortable Camping combines all of the best parts of sleeping on the ground, getting eaten by insects, and pooping outdoors. However, despite the fact that most of our ancestors got over “the call of the wild” about ten thousand years ago, nearly…

There is a new trend developing in the prepper community in regards to portable power.  A multitude of new products promising to deliver renewable,portable power have emerged onto the market including this one:  the Waka Waka power.  This is the big brother to the Waka Waka, which is essentially an LED light with a solar…

We are an interesting group of people. We store lots of food when the grocery is only minutes away. We rack up gear not knowing if we will ever use it. We train ourselves mentally for scenarios that may never happen. We spend countless hours of our time that could be devoted towards other “hobbies”…

Updating Your Emergency Preparedness Plan From time to time, people are reminded that their comfortable lifestyles could be torn from them by societal catastrophes or natural disasters. This has led many Americans to create emergency preparedness plans for themselves and their families. They often stash several months’ worth of food, medicine, ammo, and other supplies….

We often obsess over the “what if” scenarios in life and for some, those horrific “what If” situations have been a terrifying realty.  I would like to highlight two articles discovered on BeforeItsNews.com.  In the first article Mike Adman shares his year in hell, where he and 15 family members put their survival skills to…

Every prepper should have food storage from a variety of methods.  Store bought canned and dry goods, home canned fruits, vegetables, and meats, dehydrated produce, MREs, and of course, freeze dried meals.  Of course, buying extra food at the grocery store is easy…just buy more of what you already buy on a regular basis and…

So you’ve found yourself in a tense scenario – your spouse is not interested in preparedness. Or worse, completely against it and you having anything to do with it. I see this often and it’s really hard, you believe you are doing whats right, storing away some food and gear for whatever may come, and…

So what happens when SHTF and you run out of yeast? Well there is yeast in the air we breathe all around us as well as in the flour we use to bake bread. All you need to do is set out a bowl of food to capture and grow it. This is called sourdough….

Thanks to our current cold shoulder from Mother Nature, our greenhouse is still a little in the planning phase.  Constructing a green house in sub-zero temperatures is not far from the norm of my impulsive, “getter done” behavior.  However, my desire to get out in the elements and soldier on is not completely reciprocated by the entire Chylan…