Amaranth is a resilient and valuable survival crop that is nutritious, delicious, produces lots of food, and can survive in harsh conditions.
You can make flour from many plants. In fact, you can grind just about any starchy type of grain, bean, or nut into flour.
Making these do-it-yourself products will help you limit your trips to the store, and they'll introduce you to many simpler, healthier alternatives to store-bought items.
Trees not only provide oxygen, shade, and firewood, but they also offer many other benefits. Knowing about them could save your life.
If you're a prepper, you need to think about many factors when deciding the best place to live including climate, resources, and local laws.
Foods that are converted into powder are easy to store, transport, and use as ingredients in meals. Plus, they still have all the nutrients.
These medicinal herbs are natural painkillers. They aren't as strong as morphine, but they can at least make the pain more tolerable.
While you may think amaranth is new, it has been around for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations grew it for much-needed nutrients.
Urban Survival & Wilderness Survival are two very different things. When looking for Survival Kits for Rural or Urban Environments, make sure you don't get caught up in the wilderness survival marketing gimmicks...
Explore these forgotten recipes from the past and learn how our pioneer ancestors cooked with what they had.
If you're in a survival scenario that forces you onto the streets, you might find yourself turning to homeless people for advice.
If you look, you could find medicine in your backyard. Practice identifying them now because there may come a time when you need them.
If you're growing food in your garden, you'll want to avoid harmful synthetic chemicals when dealing with pests. Here are nine organic alternatives.
A dark winter is when there are widespread power outages during the winter, and that is exactly what is happening to millions of people.
Discover the 5 crucial trees that can provide essential resources for survival. From food to firewood these trees can save your life
American Amish communities use a different power grid: “God’s Grid.” Here are the skills they use to make it work.
If you could only grow one food as part of your emergency preps, which one would it be? If you ask me, it would most assuredly be this.
You may think the remedy grandma swears by is silly, but have you tried it? There are many strange home remedies that actually work.
Vertical gardening is a great space-saving option for urban preppers. Maximize your growing potential with this guide to vertical gardening.
When you're in an urban survival situation, there is a rule that will help you prioritize. It's called the Survival Rule of Threes.
Ponchos are a great way to stay dry in the rain, but did you know there are also many prepper uses for ponchos? A poncho can be a prepper's best friend.
After the collapse of society, there are many survival skills we'll need. Some of these are pioneer skills, and others are more modern.
YouTube is a great place to find survival and prepper channels and shows for inspiration and ideas. Here are 35 of our favorite creators.
There are abundant opportunities to stay warm and cozy inside and still draw your favorite outdoor scenes while urban sketching during the winter season.
Here's how to stay cool and keep yourself, friends, and family alive when the heat becomes dangerous, especially if you’re without power.
When people decide to raise animals, they usually get chickens, but there are many reasons preppers should raise rabbits for meat.
Many herbs possess medicinal and healing properties when eaten, used for tea, or in herbal medicine. Here are nine to keep on hand.
Borax can be used to clean almost anything around the house and it takes up very little space, leaving you room to store other things.
Surviving in the harshness of the frontier took true grit, the knowledge of what to do, and the right preparation for any problems.
Roman concrete is the most durable kind of concrete, and you can make it with little more than limestone, and volcanic ash and rock.
Chickens are the most common livestock raised by preppers, regardless of where they live. Here's how to raise them in the city.
Hoarding isn't always a bad thing. If you're a prepper, there are many items you should be hoarding. You never know when you'll need them.
Diatomaceous earth is a versatile problem solver, useful for food storage, pest control, improving your health, and even smoothing your skin.
