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Spring is fully here and summertime is just around the corner. That means different things to different people, but one of the things it means is that a lot of people will be taking off on vacation; traveling far from home. For most, it will be a time of rest and rejuvenation, but there will always be some who will find that their vacation plans are interrupted by some calamity. The question is, if that’s you, are you ready for it. In most cases, I’d have to say that the answer is no, even for experienced preppers. The fact of...

In the last two articles, I've talked about rethinking the bug out bag and what you really need to have. In the first one, I talked about the four big needs of: fire, shelter, water and food. Then I followed that up in the second article with a discussion of the tools you really should carry. Now I want to talk about your weapons. If there is anything in the prepping and survival community that is controversial, it's the subject of weapons. Everyone seems to have an opinion and each have their reasons to back that up. I normally stay...

In my last article, I started taking a look at some of the conventional wisdom for survival kits and bug out bags. There are a great many things we do in the survival and prepping community, simply because others do them. But that doesn't mean that what we're doing is the best. Times have changed, and the things we have available to use for survival are greatly different than what was available to us 10 or 20 years ago. I've always said that if you're doing things the same way you've always done them, it's time for a change. As...

I'm going to start this article out with an assumption. That is, you have some sort of survival kit. Whether you call it a bug out bag, a get home bag, an everyday bag or a survival kit, you've got something that you intend to take with you, if you ever find yourself in a survival situation. That's a good start. But I'd like to ask you a question. When was the last time you revised your bag, removing items you don't need and adding items you do? I don't mean just throwing some new gadget you got into it,...

There has been a lot of talk at one time or another about using gardening as part of a long-term survival strategy. I’ve even talked about it a bit myself. But I have to say, I think a lot of that talk is a bit unrealistic. When people talk about a four foot square garden providing all their nutritional needs, I start getting skeptical. I have a garden; it’s 15 by 30 feet and contains four large raised beds, totaling over 200 square feet. That’s 14 times larger than a garden that’s a four foot square. Yet even with all...