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Ponder this…..by adopting a self reliant life style you enjoy a verity of benefits.  You save money, build relationships, gain time and financial freedom, find independence and live a life full of continuous learning.  Here at Chylan HQ we have devoting our business and lives to lead the change.  By becoming part of the self reliance…

I like the layered approach to prepping – some people call this the one-is-none/two-is-one/three-is-two principle.  If you’ve never heard the saying before it means that having a backup to the backup is a good way to go because sometimes your first and most obvious choice gets broken, doesn’t work out, runs out of gas or…

This is an introductory post to a series on disaster mitigation.  Mitigation can be simply described as efforts made to minimize the impact of a disaster SHOULD one occur.  There are many ways we can take steps to reduce the damage and impact that occurs during and continues after a disaster.  The first step in…

As I’ve written many times before – I am a firm believer in food storage.  It’s an insurance policy that covers one of life’s most basic necessities – our daily food. There have been many times in the past where we have had more-month-than-money and having food storage made life much easier.  It also allows…

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…