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What do you think of when someone says they have a stockpile room? Is it the zombie apocalypse or World War 3 that comes to mind? With me, it’s simple preparedness. Maybe it was the seven years I spent associated ...

Looking for a productive way to grow food that requires less work? Utilized in Germany and Eastern Europe for hundreds of years, hugelkultur (literally meaning “mound culture”) is a method of growing food that can be built using locally available ...

Our greatest priority in preparedness should be long-term food storage, simply because any catastrophic event will affect the supply chain and food will quickly become scarce. But while food storage has significant value and provides us all with a level ...

Gardening in drought-prone areas is always a challenge, for one obvious reason: Plants, like people, can’t survive without water. But the good news is we can manage to grow a productive dry weather garden with a bit of planning and ...

Storing assorted types of batteries for the long term is a part of survival and preparedness that’s just as necessary as stockpiling food, water and gasoline. But storing batteries won’t do you any good if you don’t store them properly. ...

Editor’s note: Read part 1 in this series here. Once firewood has been selected and split, it is time to stack, store and eventually burn it. While stacking can seem like a fairly straightforward concept, it can be too easy ...

Even though the gardening season is coming to an end for most of us, it doesn’t mean that home gardeners aren’t already thinking of next season – and planning ahead. One of the best ways for the home gardener to ...

Among the many enemies to off-grid supplies is moisture. This doesn’t just affect food, although moisture can be a big problem for food. However, it is just as big a problem for a lot of different types of supplies, from ...

Long-term food storage is a challenge. Generally speaking, foods do not keep well for an extended period of time, except in the case of a few rare foods like honey. That’s why so many different methods of food preservation have ...