A Few Ways To Obtain A Safe And Secure Backwoods Shelter
There is a pleasure to be had in carrying a minimum of high-tech gear in the wilderness and relying on time-tested traditional methods for staying warm and dry. I rarely use a nylon tent for camping...
View ArticleSimple Guide For Making Your Own Soap
Up until the early 1900’s, most soaps were a homemade concoction that neither looked pretty, nor smelled pleasant. It was generally a mix of lye leached from wood ashes and fats leftover from animal...
View ArticleStep By Step Guide To Home-Brewed Beer
Man has been brewing beer for ages. In fact, some of the earliest written records were Babylonian clay tablets detailing how to make ale. Besides the fact that it tasted good, brewing beer and ale...
View Article10 Strategies To Be Self-Sufficient In The Wilderness
Living in the wilderness is not as easy as movies and TV shows portray it. In fact, becoming self-sufficient in the wilderness takes years of experience, and there are certain skills one should master...
View ArticleFinding And Using Wild Fruit In Your Area
No matter where you live in North America, there’s likely a tasty wild fruit available for picking sometime during the year. While Native Americans and early pioneers actively picked and ate wild...
View ArticleCB Radios: Citizens Band Radios for Preppers’ Communication
Citizen Band radios are extremely utilitarian communication resources, best used during emergencies or for staying connected with the pride, in case you are traveling to an inaccessible location with...
View ArticleHunting Dog Training: 7 Tips for Success
The training relationship with your hunting dog is ever-changing. Training begins the moment you and your pup lock eyes, and it doesn’t end until you put away your gun for good. To train a reliable...
View ArticleTips For Building A Meat Curing Chamber
Everyone who tastes dry-cured meats such as bresaola, sausages, salamis or prosciutto walks away with two thoughts. The first is that the meat is delicious. Second, they wonder if they can make it...
View Article10 Tips To Stay Warm During A Power Outage
Modern technology provides all the comforts one would need to have a happy and healthy life. Still, this technology we all depend on it’s not invincible, and preppers imbued with self-sufficient...
View ArticleNative American Tips for Drought Farming
Despite an above-average snowfall during the past winter, the spring was very dry. By the middle of May, New England was already having temperatures in the high 80s, and we were in drought by the start...
View ArticleForaging For Wild Edibles All Year Round
As the first long hunters and early settlers explored and tamed this country, they fit the very definition of the term, “hunter-gatherer.” Absent were cultivated crops or convenient trading posts at...
View ArticlePicking The Best Gauge For Hunting
When it comes to shotgun sizes and game, there’s not a one does all best gauge. Let’s see how they measure up when you’re out in the field. I’m quite fond of the smaller-gauge shotguns. Through the...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Online Therapy Programs of 2020
Seeing that we are going through rough times with the pandemic and all that is happening in our country, I often wondered how people are dealing with everyday stress. To my surprise, a lot of folks out...
View ArticleThe Sassafras Tree – A Prepper’s Favorite
Sassafras trees grow widely across much of the eastern United States. They can be found from southern Maine and southern Ontario west to Iowa and south to central Florida and eastern Texas. Their...
View Article12 Ways To Figure Out Your Direction Without A Compass
Sometimes around the year AD 1100, the Chinese developed the first practical compass for helping people navigate in unknown territory. But before that auspicious day, mankind had other ways to know...
View ArticleGetting Your Traps Ready For the Trapping Season
There is more to successfully trapping than making lures and setting traps, hoping that an animal might walk by and step on the pan. That rarely happens. What many new trappers do not realize, and some...
View ArticleMental Health: 7 Ways of Coping with Stress
In everyday life, we all experience pressure situations. As a result, we feel stressed. Sometimes it’s due to tight deadlines or heavy workload. Mostly external factors, to which we have no control,...
View ArticleThe Tomahawk – A great Wilderness Multi-tool
The Tomahawk has been an integral part of the pioneers kit for centuries. It is lightweight and has a handle long enough to propel the relatively light metal head with the right amount of speed to do...
View ArticleTips For Building A Proper Smokehouse
Once upon a time, every home had a smokehouse out back. Before refrigeration, smoke curing was the only way to safely preserve meat. Besides making the meat last longer, the time it spent inside the...
View ArticleWhat To Do If You Get Bitten By A Dog
Dogs are famously some of the kindest and friendliest animals known to man, owned by tens of millions of Americans and renowned for their loyal and loving nature. Unfortunately, while many dogs are...
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