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Food Storage Won’t be Enough: Build a Seed Bank
If you’re concerned about what the future holds, especially with respect to food prices, aside from a healthy amount of food storage and a garden to harvest every year, how about creating your very own seed bank? Sounds easy, but the problem is that there’s more you can do with respect to gardening and growing…
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Core LDS Bulk Food Prices Up Over 37% in 3 Years
Yesterday I visited the local LDS Home Storage Center here in Kansas City for the first time in probably a decade, which sounds like I’ve been lazy with my food storage, but we did move away to Seattle for several years during which time we visited the the nearby LDS Home Storage Center in that…
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$100 for a Bedding Fork and Scoop? Really?
I went to Lowe’s over the weekend because I realized that, if we’re going to do this homesteading right, or at least make a valiant attempt, that we were going to need a few more tools than we have. Sure, we have plenty of shovels and rakes and axes and useful tools like that, but…
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Best Pistol for 3-Gun Competition
What Are Some Great Pistols For 3-Gun Competition? Understanding the impacts of the different needs of a three-gun shooter on overall success in 3-gun Three-gun competition shooting is exciting, and can help you feel accomplished, regardless of where you place. But who doesn’t want to be in the winner’s circle? The best pistol for 3-gun…
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Streamlight AA Lantern Review
I recently purchased two of these Streamlight Siege AA lanterns because my old AA-powered lanterns were a tad outdated by about a decade, lol. That, and even though I like the D-cell LED Lanterns I purchased for emergency purposes very much, especially for the price, I have plenty more AA batteries on hand as well…
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Test Proves Survival Water Filters Useless?
Okay, so the title is a tad like clickbait, I’ll admit, but when I first watched the video I began to wonder just how useful my survival water filters were seeing as though my trusted black Berkey filters, Lifestraw, and Sawyer Mini all performed quite poorly at removing total dissolved solids, red food dye and…
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Labeling Mistakes to Avoid When Organizing Your Prepper Pantry
Do you have enough food, water and other supplies to survive when SHTF? Do you have everything you need to create a sustainable household without needing to rely on others? Perhaps most importantly, do you know what you have on your shelves without having to guess? Creating a survival cache is one thing. Trying to…
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Understanding Land Acquisition for a Homestead
Have you ever wondered what it takes to purchase a plot of land? Whether you want to use it to build a homestead or set up a survival bunker, it’s important to understand land acquisition and how the process works. Regardless of your plans for the property, buying land is a major undertaking and just…
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How to Hide from Drones
Sometimes YouTube does me a solid and offers up something truly unique, interesting, and surprisingly useful. If you’re starting to become concerned about the state of our society and, regrettably, what you might have to do one day to survive, consider the following advice on how to hide from drones. The first video is what…