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On April 6-12, grow your knowledge for organic living. Grow it faster than if you read a wheelbarrow’s load of the best books on food production, harvesting and preserving. April 6-12, the Home Grown Food Summit will host 35 presentations from experts, across a variety of organic food topics. (Presentations from experts who’d be the…

We’ve all been there…early in the morning, calling into the boss to tell them that we won’t be in that day for any multitude of reasons.  It could be a bout with the flu, strained back, or something else along those lines.  When we leave that message, we pop some OTCs and head back to…

Canada – meet Relief Foods.  Relief Foods, meet Canada.  We know you are going to be good friends. We are proud to be the exclusive Canadian distributors of Legacy Premium Foods, and for Relief Foods as well! Why another freeze dried food line? How is Relief Foods different from Legacy? Why would I choose one…

Bomb Calorimeter A bomb calorimeter is used to measure the food energy that is in a food item. So if you want to know how much food storage you need to survive for a month, you could stick some samples inside one of these babies, light it up, and then hire a scientist to interpret…

Cam and Michelle Mather are hosting another one of their fantastic workshops! The Hands-On, Solar Powered, Off-Grid, Personal Independence and Resilience, All You Can Grow, Ready for Rough Times Workshop     The next workshop will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Cost is $120 per person and includes morning and afternoon refreshments and…

It’s 5am. I sit here, having woken out of a deep sleep with such a start that it launched me out of bed and into the general blurry direction of my laptop. My article! It’s due today! The screen blinds me as I try to make my sleepy fingers type. My brain strains to string…

I’ve been through a few real situations where life was on the line, and a few where it was borderline becoming real. And I’ve found that there is a very interesting few seconds between realizing there is a problem and deciding how your going to react. It’s the few seconds where your gut feels like…

WINTER BUSHCRAFT ADVENTURE Your aircraft has gone down, and it is winter in the Rocky Mountains…would you be able to survive? Aurora Bushcraft & Survival wants to show you how! Learn firebuilding, navigation, knife and saw safety and cutting techniques, winter survival, shelter building, winter foraging and snow travel on a weekend long winter bushcraft…

This Week On Movie Monday Che, from the Ontario Preppers Survival Network is a major contributor to the preparedness community not only in Ontario, but across the country. Every summer, Che hosts the Ontario Preppers Annual Meetup, where a multitude of leaders in the preparedness community gather to share their knowledge. Che himself is an…