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Survival Trees  When we think of trees in survival situations, we tend to gravitate to the obvious. Trees give us wood for our campfires. They provide structure for shelters, materials from which shelters can be built. These are all accurate ...

Air Conditioning Related Power Usage Set To Create Power Shortages In Many States Air conditioning related electricity usage will break records and may cause blackouts in Texas this summer. Power grid operators are forecasting that electricity supplies will exceed demands ...

Say you’re in a survival scenario, and you’ve already accomplished the tasks of finding water, building a shelter, and starting a fire. Your next priority will be to gather food. You’ve found plenty of edible berries and roots, but you ...

Visitors to my neighborhood in central Maine are often startled by the presence of Amish people.  Locals, though, are accustomed to the yellow road signs with black silhouettes of horse-drawn buggies, tracks of bicycle tires and horse hooves in the ...

More and more municipalities are now using fine money as a revenue source. The city of Doraville, Georgia, issued a warrant for Jeff Thornton’s arrest and fined him $1,000. Thornton’s “crime”? He stacked his firewood the wrong way in his ...

If you’re planting a survival garden this year, this could be one of the most helpful things you do. It’s a well-known fact that America’s soil no longer delivers the nutrients most vegetables need. You can blame modern farming, backyard ...

With summer back in full force, lots of folks are working and playing outside, using joints and muscles that “lay dormant” all winter. As a result, a lot of muscle injuries and subsequent muscle pain occur. The downside, of course, ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois were curious as to why Polish women who go to the United States of America were more prone to develop breast cancer than their relatives who remained in Poland. Possibly one of the primary ...

UFO sightings in some states almost never happen. Florida, for example, is the state least likely to be a beachhead for an alien invasion. In fact, the odds of seeing a UFO in the Sunshine State are the lowest in the nation. ...

Using wild plants for teas is something all “off the gridders” should consider. Heres why: In an effort to use all the resources at your disposal (and to save money), learning how to use the “weeds” that are growing in ...