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Cooking when the grid is down can be a bit tricky for those who rely on their oven or other electrical appliances to prepare a meal. Whether you live in an area prone to power outages or simply want to ...

Having the knowledge, skill and redundancy in your pack’s fire-making systems is absolutely crucial, especially if you plan on spending any length of time in the wild. Not only does fire have the ability to keep that eerie nighttime psychological ...

If you’re thrifty, you likely have stockpiles of salvaged materials of all types in storage. Among these, balls of string or yarn and bags of rags likely await future use around your homestead. You know what some of these materials ...

We live in very volatile times, times that are marked by increasingly horrific weather events, water scarcity, financial instability and in many cases, civil unrest. What does this mean for us? It means we need to live in a state ...

Many off-the-gridders have extensively prepared for an uncertain future. Much of the preparation concerns being as self-reliant as possible on a self-sustaining homestead. But if disaster strikes, the only option may be to abandon the homestead and flee as fast ...

We live in a society that has a well-oiled system in place to meet our various needs, be it providing the food we eat, the clothes we wear, or the house we live in. Can you imagine how helpless we ...

You don’t necessarily have to know 200 ways to sharpen a knife, but if you’re new to the art of bushcraft/survival you will want to make sure that you’ve got a few of the basics out of the way prior ...

Any survivalist or bushcrafter knows that a crisis won’t wait for sunny weather. Whether it’s a cold spring night or a frigid winter day, the environment itself becomes a hazard that you’ll have to mitigate. All survival is critically dependent ...

I’ve known quite a few avid bushcrafters in my day, and from Eagle Scouts to lifelong trapper/hunters, they all seem to have one thing in common: While they do enjoy teaching and mentoring a newbie bushcrafter, sometimes, the newbie is ...

If you’ve been in the field on maneuvers with the Army, been in combat or even been around the survival community for a while, you’ve probably heard about MREs. MREs are the Army’s current version of combat rations, which the ...