Preparing your family for disastrous times can be a somewhat daunting task. There are so many factors to consider when it comes to properly preparing for critical times. Although overwhelming, it is the responsibility of every household head to make sure their family survives. It doesn’t have to be World War III that causes your life to descend into chaos. It could be something as simple as a long-term power failure or water shortage, which robs you of your basic everyday needs. The key to survival is proper advanced preparation for you and your family.
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You don’t need toxic chemicals to beat mosquitoes. While DEET-based bug sprays may be the tried-and-true method, if you do your research, you can find all-natural mosquito repellents. In fact, some of these natural mosquito repellents work better than DEET, and all of them are free of the nasty side effects DEET brings. Soybean Oil
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Do you ever feel like your child has a constant cold? Well, when you consider that the average kid gets between six and ten colds per year and each bout lasts a week or two, you’re not too far off! Young children tend to get the most colds, and kids in large families or daycare
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The jury has been out for quite some time on chemical fertilizers and herbicides – are they good or bad? Roundup, which is the most popular weed killer in the U.S., is at the center of the debate. Researchers in Europe have claimed that the weed killer has serious toxic effects. This, they say, is due to inert ingredients that amplify the toxicity of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate. As a result, Roundup is banned in nearly every European country. Research On Roundup Suburbanites all across the country have heard the warnings about chemical herbicides, yet
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For those of us who can and preserve our foods, we certainly know how rewarding it can be. Satisfied family and friends regularly enjoy our goodies, and we love being able to provide them. But, most of us often wonder about the world beyond our grandmother’s strawberry jam or our great aunt Betsy’s grape jelly. Surely in these modern times, we should be able to branch out and explore new creations. What stops us? The answer to that question, most of the time, is fear. Many of us follow recipes and are not brave enough
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Next to water, there is little to the prepper lifestyle that is more important than fire. It can provide heat to keep you warm and make water potable. Fire can, of course, also cook your food, provide light, or if the situation calls for it, offer you protection. In short, fire can keep you alive. It is essential you understand the mechanics of how to successfully start a fire. Most preppers know the importance of having a fire starting kit. However, there may be times when you find yourself in certain situations where you either
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Clutter has a habit of wreaking havoc on our lives. I know because I used to be the biggest pack rat. I come by it honestly because both my parents were pack rats. It drove my husband nuts for years, because as an ex-Marine, he knows there is a place for everything – even if that place is the garbage. He had this unwritten rule that if I didn’t do something with the piles soon after he glanced at them, he would. Not wanting to start fights, I slowly learned how to part with the
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My husband and I began envisioning ourselves in a prepper lifestyle at a point in our lives that looking back, turned out to be the height of our careers. Always knowing we wanted to get out of the rat race of corporate America, and Big Pharma in particular, we planned very carefully. Timing and enough money saved were as important as where we would do this and how it would look when there was no more “corporate sponsorship” coming in. I think we did a great job of planning, and although it turned out that
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If you’ve been around for a while like I have, you probably remember people in the early 1990s talking about a new health craze called juicing. The whole notion behind the practice seemed quite simple: Throw some fresh fruits or raw vegetables into a blender or a machine called an extractor, hit the on switch, and sit back for a minute or so, then drink your way to unrivaled health and freedom from all (or nearly all) of humankind’s chronic ailments. If you’re like me, you might also have done what I did: watch all
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Tansy is the common name for the flowering plant species known as Tanacetum vulgare L. If you live in the U.S., Canada, or Europe, there’s a pretty good chance you can find this plant in local environments such as pastures, rural roadsides, stream banks and fence lines. Tansy has a long history of use as a medicinal herb, pesticide, ornamental flower, and preservative. However, the plant is also toxic to human beings and livestock, and as a result, it has been largely excluded from modern herbal and medicinal guides. New Natural Fertilizer Doubles Garden Production…
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