Water. In tough times it is easily the key between life and death. Most disaster preparedness plans consist of bleach to use as an emergency method in making your drinking water safe to consume. Bleach does destroy most (not all) organisms that cause disease by chemically disinfecting it. While bleach …
Read More »How to safely preserve your eggs for 9 months
Eggs go bad after a few weeks even with refrigeration right? Or is that just what we are lead to believe? Keeping eggs fresh even in a refrigerator for months at a time is hard to swallow I know. With a little time and some mineral oil you can preserve …
Read More »If it crawls you can CAN it!
Most people get most of their food from the supermarket. Even most of your homesteaders. Sure they may grow a few rows of corn, or raise a few chickens and provide a fair portion to supplement, but even then a lot of our food still comes from the market, especially …
Read More »Quickly deploy a hardened concrete shelter (just add water)
Now this is cool. If you ever find yourself in a jam and need a quick shelter there are concrete canvas shelters that could fit your needs just right. Maybe recent military members have seen these concrete canvas shelters in use but I do not remember this style in use. …
Read More »Home evacuation tips
Evacuation Station Our main goal so many times is to secure our home to the best of our abilities, stand our ground if need be and stay put. But there may be times when it is in our families best interest to evacuate. Do you know when? There may also …
Read More »Getting started: Food Preparation
Food is usually the first thing to come to mind when attempting to prepare for a disaster scenario. A great example of this is when someone races to the store to buy bread and milk at even the mention of a bad storm. Can you blame them? Statistically the next …
Read More »Contest giveaway: FREE SILVER COINS
For our second contest we are proud to announce that we are giving away free silver coins from our personal collection. 3 winners will be drawn at random to win 3 random pieces of silver coins (1 each) drawn from our personal collection of silver. It consist of many denominations …
Read More »Adding up your families water needs
Your family has an overall water consumption need. Potable water for drinking and hygiene as well as non potable water. The average recommendation is to have enough water to last two weeks. Lets go over a breakdown of the water your family should require. This is a general rule of …
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