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Why You Need to Grow Food One Year and Preserve Food for Two Years

Why You Need to Grow Food One Year and Preserve Food for Two Years

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Gardening can be fickle sometimes. One year you can grow enough for seven families and the following year, you barely have enough for your own family. Many factors can play into this like weather, watering, and neglect. Some years you will have the perfect growing conditions and plenty of time to weed, water, and tend to your plants. The following year could be a drought year or you have more things planted than time you have to work on the…

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Three Prong Approach to Food Storage: How to Make Sure You Are Covered For All Situations

Three Prong Approach to Food Storage: How to Make Sure You Are Covered For All Situations

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When you first start preparing, food storage is usually your starting point. Depending on what you are preparing for, you gear your food storage towards that direction. What if I told you that you could have your food storage covered in just about any situation? I believe in the three-prong approach to food storage: Quick, easy foods that do not need to be cooked or minimally cooked Long term food storage like freeze-dried foods, rice, and beans Cook from scratch…

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Decide, Plan, Prepare: How To Start Getting Prepared Practically

Decide, Plan, Prepare: How To Start Getting Prepared Practically

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We all have this idea prepping can just be done in any way possible. We try to do many things and quickly realize we might not have a direction or a plan to help guide us. In the beginning, many people just started prepping without rhyme or reason. All they know is that they need to get prepared and they need to do it now. They start by going to the grocery store and stocking up on goods without understanding…

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Laziness Will Kill You (Literally and Figuratively)

Laziness Will Kill You (Literally and Figuratively)

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(Writer’s note: I’m talking to me as well as all of you. I realized about four months ago I had a serious problem with laziness. I wouldn’t call myself lazy, but it was easier to be lazy than to admit that I had a problem with my phone. I have been making small changes since then to get better. However, this advice is not coming from a perfect hustler either.) In this day and age, laziness has become the norm. We love…

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Ten Ideas For Christmas Shopping With A Self-Reliant Prepper Perspective

Ten Ideas For Christmas Shopping With A Self-Reliant Prepper Perspective

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Christmas is coming around the corner. To say that I find Christmas shopping painful would be an understatement. However, I have a few tips and tricks to buy presents that fit into my values and beliefs without sacrificing my pocketbook. I have a budget for everyone on my list and they are well aware of it. I almost never buy toys that are electric, take batteries, or need electricity to operate them. My kids figured this out years ago and…

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16 Reusable Practical Items You Should Always Have In Your Home and In Your Preps

16 Reusable Practical Items You Should Always Have In Your Home and In Your Preps

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Being a prepper and being way more interested in self-reliance, I have become a lot more interested in items that can be reused time and time again. I would not have bought most of these things fifteen years ago, but now? I couldn’t imagine life without them.These things I think are important for home and possibly your survival. They are things that should stand the test of time, but we all know that can’t always be true. You should be…

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