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Seasons are still a marvel to me. I lived in South Florida for more than 16 years, the land of two seasons — the hot-and-rainy season and the not-quite-as-hot-and-rainy season. I was away from the natural cycle of the year ...

In a former life, before moving to the Ozarks to embark upon an unanticipated homesteading lifestyle, I studied to be and worked as a zoologist and marine biologist. As odd as it may seem, the skills I acquired and the ...

If you are anything close to my age, you probably got your first impression of what a survival should be from Sly Stallone in one of the Rambo movies. As a teenage boy, and already an avid outdoorsman I became ...

In prepping, we tend to put a lot of thought into big picture planning. We gather food supplies, medical supplies, fuel and water. We carefully rat hole these items at our chosen refuge, and continue storing, maintaining and rotating our ...

You can find a lot of actual wisdom in folk wisdom. One of my favorites is “Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.” In general this is very sound advice. But, like all great rules, it requires exceptions to ...

Teaching your kids to use firearms properly and safely is a sacred trust. It is a skill that can provide them with a lifetime of enjoyment, a lifetime of increased safety from the dangers of the world, and a lifetime ...

Living on a working homestead is a great test bed for long-term survival situations. On the homestead, you learn and put into practice the skills of self-sufficiency. You produce food. You learn to make for yourself many of the things ...

Disasters and crisis situations, by nature, have a habit of occurring at the most inconvenient times. For parents, this means that the kids may very well be at school or elsewhere when the world turns upside down. For those of ...

It seems that everywhere you turn these days, some element of the food, hygiene or pharmaceutical industry is trying to force toxic waste into our bodies. One of the prime motivators in the journey to a self-sufficient lifestyle, all preparedness ...

The subcompact pistol is nothing new — .38 snub-nosed revolvers with 2-inch barrels have been around for over 50 years, and pistols that were relatively compact (but not subcompact) such as the Colt Officer’s model are also old timers. There ...