Let’s take a quick look at the two options available to preppers. Ready To Eat meals include MRE’s, freeze dried meals (Mountainhouse etc.), canned meals (Beefaroni etc.).There are some great advantages to these types of foods. First off, nothing more than a can opener is needed in regards to opening cans. For freeze dried meals,…
Although I have been living in the city for the past 20+ years, I have still managed to put in a garden from time to time. When I was younger, growing up in a small town, my parents put in huge gardens every year that supplied the whole family of six the year round with…
What exactly is self-sufficiency? Webster’s defines it as follows:adj. Able to support or maintain oneself without aid or cooperation from others. Let’s take a look at this definition “Able to support or maintain oneself without aid or cooperation from others.” To some, this could be as simple as holding down a job, making mortgage or…
When the well pump won’t run due to a power outage or the municipal supply becomes contaminated or otherwise undrinkable, there are many sources of water available to you. Many of these sources need to be filtered, or otherwise treated before consumption.There are many high quality filters available on the market today that will clean…
If you have a wood burning stove or fireplace for heat, weather primary or backup, you have probably at least looked at artificial fire logs. I have used a few different types of these and find that they do have a place next to my wood pile, but there are clear advantages & disadvantages to…
I want to take a minute to thank all the readers as well as contributing members for helping to keep the blog alive. If you haven’t already done so, check out the forum. Some of the provincial blogs will automatically redirect you there. There are sub forums on a variety of topics and the atmosphere…
We have all heard about the current solar maximum and its possible effects here on earth. Living in Quebec, I remember the solar flares in 1989 knocking out the power grid for hours. This was during a solar maximum. In 1972, sporadic, but temporary phone outages were reported around North America. In 1958 & 1959,…
As part of my interest in prepping, I regularly search the internet for wind power projects. I plan on building some sort of wind generator in the near future. My searches led me to this site…not exactly te scale I had in mind, but seems like a handy and useful project to do. I may…
Alright then everyone…pop quiz!What is the number one recommended prep item?If you answered food, then you are correct. So to help all our fellow preppers get that food put back, our call for recipes is food storage ideas. Dehydrating, canning, you name it…give us those home preservation methods here. And thanks again to TCadd for…
Let’s take a minute to look around a bit…Major earthquakes have hit in Chile, Austrailia, and now Japan.Civil uprising in Egypt and Lybia.The world is going to Heck in a handbasket.Locally, things don’t look any better…1998 – Ice storm hits eastern Canada2000 – Devestating tornado in Pine Lake2010 – Hurricane Igor hits Canadian east coastNow…
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