In a preparedness lifestyle, preparing beyond your storage food is essential. With today's economy and food borne illnesses a very real possibility, many people are wisely turning to backyard gardening to help with their food supply. For some families it has become a...
The Sacred Giant Bear and the Mosquitoes An Apache tribe had the last of the great giant bears living near their summer camp. The giant bear lived in the cliffs near their village. The Apaches all had a high level of respect for this sacred giant bear. They would...
Food Security with Machinery from the Past: A Walk Behind Tractor By Guest Blogger: David B. When our modern petrochemical food commodity production and distribution system falters from natural causes of weather, drought, disease, pests, mismanaged crop genetics or...
This is the perfect time of year to share information on Composting For the Home Gardener Let me begin by saying that, I do not generally recommend composting because of the equipment, time, space, and effort required, and because few people have the time, knowledge,...
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"One of the things I’d like to do is to show people how to start "positive" epidemics of their own. The virtue of an epidemic, after all, is that just a little input is enough to get it started, and it can spread very, very quickly." ~ Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping...
Written by Guest Blogger: Daisy Cooper (Bio Below) When you buy a new house or flat it is hard to make everything come together at once. Decorating the rooms, fitting a new kitchen and replacing the windows all take a certain amount of time and money, leaving you with...
Preparedness Medicine, Part I: Local Volunteers In the preparedness domain, no subject has any more importance than caring for and optimizing the human body. Aside from a warm and safe place to stay, nothing will be more important than the recovery and maintenance of...
Guest Blog Post by Regular Contributor Don Alley (Bio Below) Eating healthy makes you better able to perform. Duh. Now that we have the obvious out of the way, I’d like to share my recent healthy eating experience. I am not in the best shape I could be. Between being...