Starting a Fire With Steel Wool and Batteries – Video Blog Post

Our family is progressively taking steeps to reduce our toxic imprint on the planet.  Our next phase is to reduce the toxins we bring into our home by making household cleaners from scratch.  Making your own cleaners does not just reduce toxins: having bulk base ingredients on hand is a great addition to preparedness. We…

Welcome everyone to a brand new year filled with opportunities.  We are making a few changes in the new year in hopes of livening up the site a bit and getting as many Canadians as possible prepared for what may be. Uniting The BlogsIn the past, the CPN was describes as a group of interconnected…

So today we had a little test of some of our preps. The utility company cut power in the neighborhood for maintenance between 8AM and 3PM. We learned a lot about what we had done right, and also what we had not done right. Here is a rundown of what we were able to test….

I used to think that the world was going to heck in a handbasket. Earthquakes, civil uprising, disasters of all kinds from all over the globe. It’s sometimes no wonder that there always seems to be a self proclaimed prophet predicting the end of times. Many preppers point out how these disasters seem to be…

So go ahead and check for yourself…  Google how much water to store or visit your favorite prepping website and look it up for yourself.  Undoubtedly you will find the same answer everywhere you look, two quarts per person per day for drinking plus two quarts per person per day for cooking and washing.  At…