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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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Updated 5/17/2025 When you first start preparing, food storage is usually your starting point. Depending on your preparation, you gear your food storage towards that direction. What if I told you you could have your food storage covered in just about any situation? I believe in the three-prong approach to food storage: In my experience, you should have all three kinds of food storage. You might be preparing for natural disasters and think #1 is all you need. However, you…

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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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How To Prepare For A Second Lockdown At Home

How To Prepare For A Second Lockdown At Home

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(Updated 5/4/2026. This was first posted in November 2020 during the worst of the pandemic. While that crisis is considered over, this information remains pertinent. Another pandemic will occur and be considerably worse than the one in 2020. Be prepared!) In the last week, the media has been reporting the certainty of another lockdown occurring in the next 3-4 months. While we may want to call foul and stomp our feet, this is certainly not the time to be unprepared…

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