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There are two kinds of survival skills that I like to call “soft survival skills” and “hard survival skills.” Hard survival skills consist of those abilities that a person or family needs to survive in an extreme situation, such as ...

Over the last few years, being a survivalist or prepper has become a much more mainstream and accepted by American culture. The stereotype of the paranoid man sitting in his basement surrounded by his gun collection and wearing his aluminum-foil ...

Distilling is basically the act of removing impurities from something or concentrating the essence of something in a liquid form. One of the most common liquids that people distill is water. Water can be distilled very simply with the right ...

Even if you do your best to prepare for the worst, sometimes things just go wrong.  There may be a natural disaster in which you lose all of your canned goods, or stuff could actually hit the fan leaving you ...

August 14, 2012 A quick video for newer preppers Previous Video

Most emergencies aren’t predictable or preventable with any realistic consistency; things like choking, allergies, fire, snake bites, and bee stings are a fact of life and oftentimes difficult to avoid. For someone who lives the off-the-grid lifestyle, self-reliance has become ...

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 threat of natural disaster has never been greater than it is right now. No matter where you live, no one is safe from the potentially devastating impact of nature’s wrath. Now more than ever, you need to be prepared ...

Being able to meet the needs of your family for everyday things only works if you’re healthy and strong. So what do you do if you get hurt or sick and the nearest doctor is far away, or there aren’t ...

Emergencies require fortitude, prior planning, knowledge, and tools to get through, but the most important focus should be on the essential life components: food, water, and shelter. Life requires water, and that is the focus of this article. How does ...