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Preparedness Lessons from the Boy Scouts
"Always be Prepared" - Preparedness Lessons from the Boy Scouts Last weekend, I had the opportunity to join my nephew’s Scout troop on a camping outing. The weather in the inland Northwest can be unpredictable this time of year. But that was the purpose of this trip – to learn...
Recent Black Swan Events: 3 You May Have Missed
Recent Black Swan Events: 3 You May Have Missed A few years back, a friend who is also a prepper turned me on to a new phrase: Black Swan Events. Shortly after he told me about it, I got to digging. You can read our first write up on these...
Special Report: Building a Culture of Preparedness
Building a Culture of Preparedness In FEMA's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, recently published and outlined in comments to the House Homeland Security Committee – the first strategic goal reads: "building a culture of preparedness." Seeing this intrigued me. As most in the prepper community, I've been skeptical of FEMA for some...
Preparedness Wisdom from Ephesians
Preparedness Wisdom from Ephesians It’s been some time since we discussed the Bible, and this weekend of Easter makes it a perfect time to return to the best-selling book of all time. This week takes us to the book of Ephesians. To give some historical background, it was written after...
Special Diets & Personal Tastes: Your Guide to Custom Food Storage
How To Easily Customize Your Long-Term Food Storage Supply If You Have Special Dietary Needs or Food Preferences When people are thinking of building their food storage plan, they often ask our experts these questions... How much food do I need? How long can I keep it in storage? Where...
The Day We Stamped Our Fate for Liberty
The Day We Stamped Our Fate for Liberty Tomorrow marks the 252nd anniversary of a pivotal event in our nation's history. On March 18th, 1766, the British government repealed the Stamp Act of 1765. Although this act, the first of many internal taxes levied on the unrepresented colonies, was repealed,...
All About Salt & Preparedness
All About Salt and Preparedness Salt has been valuable since the dawn of civilization. Many are familiar with the phrase "worth his salt." This has origins in the ancient slave trade, where slaves would be traded for this commodity. Ancient Roman soldiers were also paid in salt, called a salarium,...
Clutter is a Prepper's Worst Enemy
We all know preparedness is a journey. Journeys take time. Over this course of time, we add supplies and contingencies to our preps. We become more self-reliant, but we also have even more of a need for organization. I realized how important this was recently while visiting a preparedness-minded friend....
Lincoln's Journey - Lessons for Life and Preparedness
The above quote is one of my favorites of Lincoln's. It can be interpreted in many ways. Some feel it is an eloquent way of rephrasing the saying "Use the right tool for the right job." For those of us committed to preparedness, we can see the obvious parallels. In...
The Only True Long-Term Survival Food Plan - Here's the Secret
The global food supply is a vast, complex and ultimately fragile system. For years, news of crop failures, shortages and contaminated foods have been making mainstream news. These disruptions have a direct impact on the food that’s available to us and how much we pay for it at the market....
30 Million FEMA Meals Never Delivered - Urgent Bulletin to Prepare
"Do not ship another meal.Your contract is terminated." This was the simple, two-line email a rep from FEMA sent to Tiffany Brown, owner and sole operator of Tribute Contracting. Shortly after Hurricane Maria relief efforts were underway, Tribute Contracting was awarded a FEMA contract to deliver 30 million meals to...
When the Government Shuts Off the Water
Imagine your local government telling you that the pipes in your home will no longer deliver water in a few months. That’s the reality for the nearly half a million residents of Cape Town, South Africa. How did this happen? Despite one of the world’s strictest water management policies, it...
