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Build a Year’s Supply of Emergency Food Piece by Piece
At the start of a new year, many of us make resolutions… and let’s face it, most of us fail to keep them. We have the best of intentions, but life, time, or money get in the way. The same thing is true when it comes to building a...
Why Christmas This Year Is More Meaningful
Christmas has always been special, but after 2020, this year’s Christmas feels even more meaningful. It’s not because things have gotten better (in many ways, they haven’t). Christmas 2021 is more meaningful because we gained a new perspective in 2020. When the world shut down in 2020, everyone suffered. Schools...
Our Readers’ Favorite Survival Scout Articles of 2021
Many of us hoped that 2021 would be a better year than 2020. But 2021 proved to be just as weird – if not more. We continued to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the addition of vaccines and vaccine mandates. We watched in horror multiple times as citizens...
When the Government Takes Away Freedom of Movement
Most of us didn’t really give much thought to our right to freedom of movement until coronavirus quarantines began. Boston University Law Review explains, “The right to travel is different from the right to free speech, to bear arms, and to equal protection under the law. These enumerated rights have...
Water Contamination: New Data Paints a Stark Picture
Think you have access to clean drinking water? Think again. The Safe Water Drinking Act was enacted in 1974 and updated in 1986 and 1996 to protect Americans from contaminated water. But despite all of that, the water coming out of our taps still has far more contaminants than is...
Preparing for a Parallel Society
In 1953, Ray Bradbury penned the classic dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. In it, he depicts a futuristic society where firemen are responsible for burning books, as censorship is key. However, the novel ends with the main character, a former firefighter, choosing to go against society by aiming to preserve books...
13 Cooking Hacks When You’re Missing Ingredients
We’ve all experienced some type of ingredient shortage – whether stores are closed because of a hurricane, the current supply chain issues have made it hard to find basic ingredients, or the grocery stores are out of stock. Take yeast, for example. When the pandemic first impacted the United States...
Top 15 Gift Ideas for Those Who Love Prep
We’ve all received a gift we don’t want. We may have even been the person who gave an unwanted gift. In fact, that’s highly likely according to statistics. Some 61% of Americans surveyed admit to getting at least one unwanted gift over the holidays, totaling roughly 154 million American adults....
10 Survival Skills from the US Military Everyone Needs to Know
On November 11, 1919, America recognized Armistice Day on the first anniversary of the ending of World War I. Armistice Day eventually became Veterans Day and an annual national holiday in 1938. While Memorial Day honors those men and women who have lost their lives serving our country, Veterans Day...
Control the Food. Control the People.
Henry Kissinger famously said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” History shows us this is true – especially when it comes to controlling food. Many people would like to believe that famines are...
Why Morse Code Is Still Important Today
On April 15, 1912, telegrapher John G. Phillips sent out the following Morse code message: “CQD CQD SOS SOS CQD DE MGY MGY.” CQD stands for “Come Quick Disaster” and SOS stands for “Save Our Ship or Save Our Souls.” And DE MGY stands for “from the RMS Titanic.” We...
Will It Ever Go Away? What 7 Past Pandemics Teach Us Today.
The Spanish Flu shook the world from 1918 to 1919. Then, America entered the Roaring 20s. Surely that means that the Spanish flu was eradicated and had a clear ending…right? Wrong. As much as we’d like to believe the end is in sight with the pandemic we are currently living...
