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The Preppers Are Right! : More than 50 million Americans short of food
“Whether they are known as home, mixed, backyard, kitchen, farmyard, compound or homestead gardens, family food production systems are found in most regions of most countries worldwide. They may be the oldest production system
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Will This Happen In America ? Three Tons of Food Looted From Grocery Stores In Spain As Millions Struggle
As the economic and financial systems of the world rapidly approach the real possibility of total collapse, signs of what we can expect on a mass scale in the near future are beginning
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Getting Prepared Month 12: Food, Water and the Motivation to Keep Going
The term “at the twelfth hour” is often used to describe something or someone that is late. But for us, in month 12 of prepping, nothing could be further from the truth. More
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Printable Checklist: The Preparedness Test by Gaye Levy
29 questions to help you determine & secure your level of preparedness…when an urgent event strikes. After reading the questions, is there anything that you think needs to be included or that you
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40 Items to Barter in a Post-Collapse World
Do you know how to barter? In preparedness circles, the term barter is used lot when describing a post SHTF situation when goods and services may no longer be available through normal channels.
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Be Prepared: 4 Foods for Your Survival Food Storage
In both the ‘30s and recent history, economic collapses and food shortages troubled average people across the nation and globe. While a global food and energy crisis may seem outlandish to some, there’s no
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3 Reasons EVERYONE Should Have Coffee in their Emergency Food Supply
Prepare Wise is excited to introduce a new product that’s sure to add a little kick to your food storage fare…. Legacy Premium Ground Coffee! Now don’t worry, you won’t need to add Solar Powered
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Fifty food items to stockpile now: Health Ranger releases preparedness foods shopping list
With food prices skyrocketing and food supplies looking increasingly questionable for 2013, you'll be happy to know I've selected and assembled a list of recommended storable foods from a trusted discount source. All the
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Congressman Bartlett: “Every Citizen Should Develop an Individual Emergency Plan to Prepare for the Absence of Government Assistance for Extended Periods”
Outspoken in his belief that each individual American should prepare for a crisis where the government would be unable to provide for the basic needs of the national population, Bartlett has himself created a
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9 Tips for Food Safety When the Grid Goes Down
Recently, 600 million people in India were without power for two days. According to news sources, the suspected cause was one of simple supply and demand: more people wanted power than the Indian infrastructure
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The Hunger Wars In Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, Global Unrest
The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas,
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When the power goes out…….have a black out kit
Power outages can be caused by a wide variety of sources including general utility problems, winter storms, lightening strikes, wind storms as well as grid overload. There are numerous other causes but for
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Nine Steps to Take Now to Prepare for the Perfect Storm of Civil Unrest
According to an Army field manual “In these modern times, demonstrations, civil unrest, public disorder, and riots happen for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons are economic hardships, social injustices, ethnic differences (leading
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The Most Often Forgotten Survival Preparations
I think it’s safe to say with some conviction that in the year of 2012 the concept of survival prepping is NOT an alien one to most Americans. When National Geographic decides there
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8 Simple Budgeting Strategies to Survive Hard Times
Of all expenses people can control, perhaps the one with the biggest variation (percentage-wise) is food budgets. If you eat out all the time, these costs can be enormous. Or, at home, they can
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Survival Basics: Preparing for a Grid Down Power Outage
Recent storms in my own area reminded me that power outages resulting in a grid down can happen anytime, to anybody, anywhere. Some outages are planned, some are the result of mother nature
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Survival Basics: Water
Clean water is something that we all take for granted. We turn on the faucet and there it is. It is plentiful, it is clean and it is drinkable. Yes, it may have some
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The Best Bartering Items to Have in a Collapse
Everyone knows that they should be buying gold and silver for when the collapse happens. Everyone knows that they should have a supply of food and in the best of circumstances a self-sustaining off-grid
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10 things the recent D.C. power outage taught us about a real, large-scale collapse
In the wake of violent storms, the power went out for millions of Americans across several U.S. states. Governors of Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio declared a state of emergency. Over twenty people were
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21 Basic Survival Skills
Have you decided to take the Survival Mom Family Camping Challenge? If so, you might find this list interesting and helpful. How many of these skills do you already have? Which do other
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Six Things to Do to Prepare for Going Off-Grid
Anyone who has gone camping overnight knows that there is a certain magic involved when sitting by a campfire or camp stove, sharing fish tales and roasting marshmallows over the flickering flames. The
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Power grid goes down for millions of Americans as Mother Nature reminds us all to get prepared
Mother Nature has a way of interrupting our lives with not-so-subtle reminders to pay attention to reality. Over the last 48 hours, a blistering heat wave has swept across nine U.S. states, causing the
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