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I stumbled through the woods wearing blaze orange, carrying my rifle. I was fourteen and on my first elk hunt in the Colorado Rockies.  It was getting dark, not because it was late in the day, but because a storm ...

Imagine bringing home a bounty after a trip to the neighborhood farmer’s market, piling those fresh fruits and veggies in baskets you yourself have made using twigs, branches or other items found in the great outdoors. What a wonderful way ...

They say that college is a pivotal point in your life—you make lifelong friends, discover new things about yourself, get started with your career, and maybe even meet your future spouse. I can definitely agree with this, as all of ...

The will to survive is encoded in our genetic structure. When you’re faced with a situation where you must catch what food you can to stay alive, where you must rely on the elements of nature for shelter and water until the situation resolves, how do you come out? Are your survival skills enough that you make it out alive? Or do you become another death statistic? Every year dozens of people in each state become lost, hurt, or stranded in the woods.

It wasn’t all that long ago when learning a trade – such as being a journeyman, baker, craftsman, tailor or smither – in lieu of college (which of course was and still is unattainable to many), meant finding someone under ...

What are you working on to increase your preparedness and survival planning and skills? Amping up your food storage? Building a root cellar? Installing solar panels? How about cleaning your house? Cleaning house? That is not a prepper skill! But ...

Disasters come in a full spectrum of sizes and forms. Some may be personal, like a divorce, a death in the family, or the loss of a job. Others may be regional, national, or global.  It could come as a cataclysmic natural ...