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Passive solar heating and passive cooling—approaches known as natural conditioning—provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects or builders really understand the principles involved.Now Dan Chiras, author of the popular book The…

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…

While gathering information for this post I talked to a few people about what they would do with their animals in an emergency.  I got responses ranging from letting them go free to dispatching them before an evacuation to a 10 minute dissertation on why an emergency couldn’t possibly happen to them.  Ah … yeah. …

In my prepping journey I have had some strange looks when I mention I am aiming for food storage for a year (I have a long way to go!)  Some people have asked if I’ve switched faiths and become Mormon – ah no.  I believe however they DO have the right idea when it comes to food…

Even if you don’t keep too close of an ear to world events, you likely can’t help but have heard rumblings of a nuclear war with Russia lately.  Of course, I’m not the fear mongering public panic type, but I thought it might be a good idea to send a reminder…plant a seed of thought. …

Well, I would love to tell you all that the last few weeks were restful for me, but there is nothing restful about moving your family 100 km into the mountains.  Although we are settled enough to make life fairly normal, there is still plenty of unpacking to do.  Above that, the outdoors needs quite…