Protein is the hardest macronutrient to store long-term. Grains, legumes, sugar, and salt are relatively straightforward. Meat is not. Fresh ...

When most people think about survival, the first image that comes to mind is a person holding a rifle, standing ...

Burns are one of the most common serious injuries in any survival or grid-down scenario. Open fire cooking, camp stoves, ...

You already know why prepping matters. You've probably been doing some version of it for years - maybe decades. You ...

Most people walk past hawthorn without a second glance. They see a thorny shrub with small red berries and keep ...

Most parents give kids chores because the house needs to be clean. Prepper parents give kids chores because the world ...

When it comes to building a solid emergency stockpile, most advice focuses on what to store. And that makes sense ...

If you've ever driven through Amish country and noticed a solar panel on a barn roof or heard the hum ...

The government doesn't want you to panic about hantavirus. And that's exactly why that should worry you. While the country ...

A root cellar is an underground or partially underground storage space that uses the natural insulating properties of the earth ...

There's a thing that happens when the power goes out at night. For the first few seconds, your brain doesn't ...

In the 1930s, American families were baking chocolate cake with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Not because they ...

There is no shortage of prepping advice on the internet. You can find lists of what to stockpile, reviews of ...

The power grid goes down more often than the people who run it want to admit. Extreme weather events, infrastructure ...

The Amish do not bake for the fun of it. Every recipe that has survived in Amish communities for generations ...

Like most people, you probably assumed that night vision is expensive military technology that regular folks can't get their hands ...

More than four years have passed since Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian border, and the war shows no real sign ...

If you've been prepping food for long-term storage, you've probably seen mylar bags recommended everywhere. They're the default answer on ...

You are buckled in, the car just went off the road, and the door will not open. The seatbelt is ...

In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of every file related to a program called MK-ULTRA. Boxes of ...

Most drivers spend years on the road without ever thinking about what they would do if their car caught fire. ...

An electromagnetic pulse can arrive without warning. Whether it comes from a high-altitude nuclear detonation or a severe solar storm, ...

Open the drawer next to your bed. Check the shelf in the hall closet. Look in that box in the ...

If you've been part of a prepper community for any amount of time, you've probably heard the warnings. Someone new ...

In 1799, a twelve-year-old boy named Conrad Reed pulled a heavy yellow rock out of Little Meadow Creek in Cabarrus ...

A trench shovel is not glamorous. It does not have a battery, an app, or a multi-tool attachment. What it ...

For about forty years, the United States and the Soviet Union spent an absurd amount of money preparing for the ...

Most of what keeps people alive when things go wrong cannot be downloaded. It cannot be streamed. It cannot be ...

I first ran into this idea while reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. There’s a scene where the characters are ...

Hollywood gets a lot wrong about survival. The hero always finds food in the first place he looks, the fire ...