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A lot of us off-the-gridders don’t much believe anything the federal government says. That’s particularly true with statements like, “don’t worry, when Apple gives us their phone encryption key codes, we’ll protect your privacy.” Or, “we assure you that with ...

Living off the grid is a rewarding lifestyle that millions of Americans enjoy, but it is hard work for the newly initiated. Here are the five biggest challenges for most people who want to move and begin living off-grid. 1. ...

February 8th, 2016 Video courtesy of GrowYourGreens John from GrowingYourGreens shares with you his top 5 container gardening tips that will enable you to be successful at growing food in a container garden whether you are a beginner or someone ...

There’s no doubt that there is a lot of helpful information out there about wilderness survival from experts and those who made it out of a crisis situation themselves. Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of false survival information out there ...

Shoppers in several East Coast cities were facing the nightmare of empty supermarket shelves as Winter Storm Jonas approached the region this weekend. Empty shelves and ransacked stores were the norm in such major cities as Detroit, New York, Richmond ...

Those of us who have been storing food for a while probably have a pretty good assortment of food in our stockpile. We may have started out with just a few basics, but over time, we’ve been adding to it. ...

My mother tried to teach me about food. She did it all — gardening, canning, jellying, freezing, drying, cheesing. She knew all about the so-called “Hundred Mile Diet” that has become so popular in recent years, the now-trendy notion of ...

No matter how much thought and effort we put into preparing for the unknown, there’s always something we’re likely to forget. We fail to stock up on this, we put off buying that, or we neglect preparing things we think ...

There are people in the world preparing for every kind of disaster.  Possible doomsday scenarios include economic collapse, biblical Armageddon, cyberattack, polar shift, enemy invasion, irreversible climate change, and electromagnetic pulse — just to name a few. To some, it ...

Man, do I love chickens and fresh eggs in the morning. I also love hogs, and the pork that I can turn into Virginia hams and back bacon. Goats and cows provide milk and delicious red meat. But with the ...