Author: Damian Brindle
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Disaster Preparedness When Living With Chronic Pain
Though our world has certainly seen its fair share of natural disasters in recent years, it seems like wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes are happening more frequently. Knowing that there’s a potential for disaster is one thing, but taking the time to make the proper preparations and have a plan of action to ensure your safety…
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Freeze-Dried Tomatoes, Peppers
My wife’s friend gave her four pounds of tomatoes last week, so I decided I would freeze-dry them because my wife didn’t have any use for them: As usual, I had no idea as to how many slices I was going to get out of them, but after some rearranging, I got about three trays…
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New Survival Book: Sold Out Forever
Last week I released a new survival book on Amazon, Sold Out Forever: 101 Items to Grab Before the U.S. Dollar Crashes. It’s about, as you might have guessed, everything I believe people like you and I should purchase before hard times hit. If I haven’t made my views clear already, I firmly believe that…
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8 Considerations for Long-Term Camping
When most people think of camping, they picture pitching a tent for a weekend and heading back home after a few days. Short-term camping is a great way to get out into the wilderness and away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life for a few days, but what if you don’t have the…
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Freeze-Dried Pineapple
This week, I chose to try pineapple. So, I stopped by my local Sam’s Club and purchased a box of five large pineapples for $14.20: As with the bananas and applies I freeze-dried in previous weeks, preparation took longer than I’d hoped for, but mostly because I spent more time cutting larger chunks into smaller…
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How to Pick Contractors for Your Homestead
There are plenty of benefits of living in a bustling city — employment opportunities, restaurants and entertainment, shopping, meeting people and high-quality amenities are only a few worth mentioning. Yet, many city dwellers dream of trading it all in for simpler living somewhere off the beaten path. That’s why more people opt out of their…
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How to Optimize Your Food Storage
Following all the turmoil in the world, it’s no surprise you might be making plans to optimize your food storage for emergencies and worse. A recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report stated natural disasters now occur three times more often than in the 1970s and 1980s. As a result, there’s now a broader…
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Freeze-Dried Apple Chunks
As one might expect, I’m already behind on posting my weekly freeze-drying posts. That’s partly my fault (because I got started way too late this week) but I’ll attempt to blame the freeze dryer soon. I decided to buy some apples at the store because our orchard is still too young, and our vegetable garden…
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Small Rainwater Catch, Does It Work?
Last Friday, my son began to ask me about our water preparedness plan. I was honest; it’s not great. I told him we had eight 55-gallon drums that had clean water we could drink, and six IBC totes collecting rooftop rainwater that would certainly need filtered and then boiled before I would feel comfortable consuming…