by Prepare Magazine | Apr 5, 2025 | Blog
If you’re a print edition subscriber, the latest print issue of PREPARE Magazine will be in your mail box soon! Hot off the presses the much awaited third print issue is ready to mail. Take a little sneak peek inside:
Great topics are included in this issue such as:
- Growing food in the winter.
- Make a Muli-Seasonal Car Kit
- Situational Depression
- Solar Collector Can Cut Your Electric Bill
- Book Review: Survival Mom
- Cold outside. No power? No problem!
- Many more….
If you’ve not yet subscribed to the print issues – take a look at this blog post to see what the difference is between these and our monthly issues: Ten (10) Good Reasons You Want PREPARE Magazine in Print
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by Prepare Magazine | Apr 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
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How good is that? It’s Awesome!
If you’ve waited to subscribe for your free digital year of PREPARE Magazine, NOW is the time to do it. Along with all the subscription, each new subscriber will be given The “NO DIET” Diet Guide. (Valued $4.99 on Kindle)! [wpgfxm_button title_color=”#FFFFFF” size=”medium” color=”dark_blue” align=”center” new_window=”_blank” link=”http://www.preparemag.com/subscribe”]SUBSCRIBE + BONUS[/wpgfxm_button]
When you confirm your subscription – you’re subscribed. That’s it! You’ll immediately get the link for the January 2014 Digital publication of PREPARE Magazine and get started with your subscription right away (after you click the confirm email that you get when you subscribe).
It’s that easy!
The first digital issue of PREPARE Magazine this year focuses on the importance of health, fitness and wellness in our preparedness plans. It is crucial that we address our health and fitness in order to deal with the stresses that will come as a result of difficulties or emergencies.
We are going to take it one step further and give you more than the great content in January’s Issue. Besides receiving a link each month to view a vibrant full colored digital magazine, if you subscribe by January 31, 2014 you will also receive this BONUS: The “NO DIET” Diet Guide
One of our contributors, Jamie L. Burleigh, has offered us the opportunity to share a Special Report (and guide) which he wrote – outlining how he lost 100lbs in ten months. THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!
Congratulations Jamie, and THANK YOU for allowing us to share this short guide with others!
Here is what Jamie has to say in the introduction …
“I have been overweight my whole life,and struggled with bad eating habits and the conveniences of fast food and poor eating choices for as long as I could remember. One day I felt fed up with my life, how I looked,and was sick and tired of BEING sick and tired!
I will not sugar coat the realities of my own personal choices Nor will tell you how to live your life as everyone’s individual lifestyle and circumstances are vastly different.What I do want is to share my own personal triumphs of overcoming bouts of depression and obesity. This informational guide is all you need to help you make the right decision every time that you go to the market to buy food for you and your family.”
REMEMBER this FREE BONUS is ONLY available through January 31, 2014 – so get it now.
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Here’s to a healthy, happy and PREPARED 2014!
by PREPARE | Apr 5, 2025 | Coming Issue Updates, Premium Membership Updates, Uncategorized
It’s a brand New Year and a perfect time to evaluate and set new goals for the upcoming months. New plans, hopes and strategies are on the horizon. The beginning of the year is always a good time to assess what is working and what isn’t working in our preparedness efforts and to set new actions into place that will help us get better prepared for any uncertainties ahead.
The January digital issue or PREPARE Magazine has been released and is ready for viewing. The download link is below.
The focus of the January 2014 Digital Issue of PREPARE Magazine may seem cliché, but nonetheless it is a topic that needs to be addressed from and for the mindset of those of us who hope to be more self-sustainable: Prepare Your Health and Fitness.
The topics of our health and our fitness are often not addressed while trying to learn skills, plan long-term food options, follow the political climate, and generally prepare for what external sources may bring upon our lives. But this cliché topic for the New Year is a vital key to handling the changes to life ahead and needs to be addressed. So we are happy to address it with, of course, a preparedness slant.
Premium Members can access the January publication – and all previous digital publications – by logging into their Member area.
by PREPARE | Apr 5, 2025 | Blog, Coming Issue Updates, Uncategorized
The next print publication of PREPARE Magazine will soon be released. It is in final phase of printing, and according to the printers should be concluded next week. The Holidays and shipping issues caused a bit of a delay with our printers, but will soon be distributed to our subscribers via USPS.
This is a beautiful issue that is loaded with excellent content that is very relevant to our times. The two main focuses of this Print issue are: Preparing in the Winter Season and Preparing with Animals. These two topics may not seem to fit together at first glance, but we are personally finding that they actually do. We recently lost our entire flock of hens due to an early, harsh winter storm, which killed all the available flora earlier in the season than usual. The predators in our mountainous area were then in high-hunt-mode due to lack of vegetation and began to pick off our free-range flock one by one in broad daylight. Winter was coming earlier and they needed sustenance before hibernation. Winter and animals – be they pets, livestock or wildlife – do go hand in hand.
If you are a subscriber, be on the lookout for this issue in your mailbox soon! If you are not a subscriber, we’d like to invite you to become an annual print subscriber. Get your subscription at: http://www.preparemag.com/print-subscription/
by Prepare Magazine | Apr 5, 2025 | Guest Bloggers
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 fails from a disruption of transportation, communication or power systems, or socio-economic meltdown, if we do not have a secure food supply we become a refugee.
Consider that 100 cases of pork and beans will fill up a pickup truck; you will be licking the bottom of the last can in a month if you have a dozen friends and family. Do not plan on unsustainable hunting and gathering as too major of a part of your food supply.
Consider the amount of these essential storable foods required per person per year (PPPY).
GRAINS: Wheat 200#, Corn 40#, Oats 40#, Rice 80#,
LEGUMES: Dry Beans and Peas, 66# .
To grow this list requires one half acre PPPY (based on 2002 USDA non-irrigated crop yields, reduced by 2/3 for production inefficiencies, and similar to 1950 yields). Fruits and vegetables in any form enhance the nutritional value of this diet. A laying hen will need 100 pounds of grain, and milk or meat animals require multiples of their own weight per year.
For thousands of years civilizations have thrived using draft animals in intensive agriculture. Many people advocate acquiring vintage draft farm machinery for large scale sustainable food production. With the industrial revolution came more powerful machinery allowing large scale commercial agriculture, regional marking, urbanization and loss of self sufficiency. While wartime Victory Gardens often provided 50% of the fresh food for many families, primarily because many urban populations had the skills from a rural heritage and were motivated by rationing.
70 years ago Sears Roebuck & Co. partnered with DAVID BRADLEY CO. (DB), a respected Illinois farm machinery manufacturer and marketed inexpensive walk behind garden tractors. Tens of thousands of versatile DB tractors were sold nationwide from the famous catalog. Basically just a massive reduction transmission with auto tires and handlebars, a walk behind tractors had a rear drawbar for easily attaching actual farming implements. These included a moldboard turning and middle plows, disk and spike harrows, planters, interchangeable tool cultivators, cultipacker, hay rake, lawn roller, riding sulky, or a utility cart. Quickly interchangeable front mounting and power take off (PTO) for reel, rotary, and sickle mowers, tree and cordwood saws, dozer blades, snow throwers, compressors, orchard sprayers, and generators were also available. The belted motor pulley was used for PTO operated machinery such as grain mills, windmill pumps or a washing machine. The single cylinder 2 to 5 HP air cooled gasoline lawnmower engines were simple and reliable, repairable and replaceable. DB tractors were produced until the late 1960’s when leisure replaced personal reliance.
With a properly equipped walk behind garden tractor you can have your Victory Garden and maintain your yard and woodlot. When you need to plant and harvest acres of grain fields or row crops on urban vacant lots or waste ground, a suburban golf course, or abandoned farm land you can do that, too. The front quick mount and PTO has been used for portable home built time saving equipment including water pumps, pressure washers, gravel or compost trommels, leaf and brush shredders, broadcast seeders, winnowing fans, and grain conveyors. Because these economical tractors use only a quart of gasoline per hour you can store a season’s worth of fuel in the tank of an unused auto, or distill corn beer into ethanol fuel. Walking tractors have also been harnessed to a mule or converted to pedal power, and recently even solar-electric powered.
While most have been sold for scrap iron, DAVID BRADLEY tractors can still be found as rural ‘yard art’, behind old barns and fence rows, online auction sites, vintage tractor club meets, or by posting ‘wanted’ ads in local newspapers and grocery markets. You can find a restored tractor plus common attachments for less than 100 cases of pork and beans, or a repairable one for $20. Disclaimer: Vintage equipment does not meet current consumer safety guidelines and requires operator vigilance and common sense.
Consider a DAVID BRADLEY walk behind tractor as one of your preparations; begin your searching, and don’t overlook a supply of heirloom seed.
Guest Blogging Author’s Bio: David B. is a retired engineer relocated from California to a rural Wisconsin homestead, utilizing expertise in a practical, sustainable lifestyle.
