4 Ways How To Tell If A Dented Can Is Safe
Some dented cans of food are unsafe and should be discarded, but you may be surprised to discover that most are perfectly safe. Here’s how...
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How To Turn A Broken Car Into A Survival Super Market
You should be riding around with survival gear in your vehicle. Period. But just in case you get caught empty handed, it doesn’t hurt to...
Food Storage: Where to Start
Food storage is one of the first things that people begin to consider when starting their preparedness plans. And this is obviously a smart thing...
How to Make a Survival Water Filter
Is it safe to drink this water? I ask myself that question often and most of the time the answer is no. There often is...
Survival Foods: Plants – cattail, conifers, grasses and acorns
Ever wondered what kinds of survival foods you could eat if you were caught in a survival situation? When I first came to Washington state...
Tick Bites – Symptoms and Treatments
Ticks need blood meals in completing their complex life cycle and humans are often the victim of tick bites. There are about 800 species of...
Poisonous Spiders – How to Identify Them
Poisonous Spiders: The Black Widow <img alt=”black-widow-small” src=”http://natureskills.wildernessawaren.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/black-widow-small-300×200.jpg” width=”300″ height=”200″ /> When considering poisonous spiders and spider identification, the first one that comes to mind is...
How to Build a Coracle
Once humans developed a need to travel on water in order to fish, trade and explore, cultures worldwide created lightweight boats consisting of the skin...
Make Your Own Pantry-Fridge Basics
Has it ever occurred to you that instead of habitually buying pantry/fridge ‘basic’ items at the grocery store – things like ketchup, mayonnaise, chicken/beef broth,...
Cooking After The Collapse
How will I cook without electricity or gas if it ever comes to that? Here’s one way… Solar Oven Cooking Solar energy can be very...
Rookie Preppers: 8 Mistakes To Avoid
As some of you know, I’ve been prepping for a little over 3 years now. Believe me when I say that I have probably made...
Homemade Probiotic Salsa Verde Recipe
I love a good salsa verde sauce, especially over enchiladas. In my quest to eliminate commercial bought products and make my own healthier foods, I...
Home Grind – The Art Of Making Your Own Flour
Another quite small and frugal tool that can provide health benefits far beyond the modest monetary savings that can be had, is the grain mill....
Turn your empty beer bottles into reusable glassware using string and lighter fluid
Obviously, your beer bottle glass will have previously contained better beer than this. Business Insider may think that canned beer is better than glass-bottled beer. And...
Supersizing Food Storage with BUCKETS
I was asked to give a class one time on storing food in buckets and I definitely could relate to Brian Regan with his cup...
This Week’s Harvest: Peaches
Nothing says summer like taking nibble from a peach, still warm from the sun, that is so juicy it runs down your chin when you...