The Skills of Native Peoples can help us survive. But how do we learn these long lost skills? Skills that were advanced for their time but didn’t rely on electronic technology. These were and are the skills of survival. It would do us good to learn them, practice and experience them again. Some folks, such as …
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Book Bonanza Giveaway: Prepper’s Long-term Survival Guide
This Week the Book Bonanza Giveaway offers the chance to win “Prepper’s Long-Term Survival Guide.” This is a great book written by best selling author, Jim Cobb who has authored several of the top selling preparedness books that have hit the market in the last few years. Most people think that preparing for an emergency …
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Update on Our Preparedness Adventure – A New Chapter
It seems like we’ve been on the journey of Preparedness for a lot longer than it’s been ‘popular’ (Is it actually popular or just a new niche/fad? Hmmm)…but the truth of it all is that this journey is just that – a journey, an adventure – not a prize to be won or a finished …
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System-Reliant Disappointment
I have nothing but the utmost of respect for the FEMA agents who are sincerely attempting to do their very best in the face of disaster. Let me be quick to clarify that my statements have NO reflection upon individuals who have attempted to work within the systems that are currently in place. The character …
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Although we are not the Joneses, we’re the Millers, the old adage mentioned in the subject line came to mind as I was lamenting having not updated you lately about the recent radio shows and our preparedness journey. So, after this brief side-note about that saying, I do promise to truly update you where I …
Bugging Out to Start Bugging In
What term suits your family’s preparedness plan better? Bugging Out (high tailing it out of Dodge to a safe haven) or Bugging In (hunkering down with what you have on hand and making the best of it while fortified where you are). What about bugging out and bugging in? What would that look like? For …
Learn Off-Grid Skills: Outdoor Dutch Oven Cooking Class
Yesterday we had a class that was facilitated by Millers Grain House with a Guest instructor: Carolyn Counts. This class also reached into the Preparedness arena. Many of the classes from MGH are designed to serve both the healthy food enthusiast and the preparedness minded. It is our way of bringing the message of Preparation …
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Are you Always Ready?
Seriously are you always ready? For anything? For everything? Completely? I think in a real world scenario, this is more of a percentage question than a yes or no question. We are often faced with a sense of ‘never quite done’ when living the preparedness lifestyle. I mean if this were 200 years ago, we …
Bug Out Locations
Everyone who is new to the preparedness journey eventually encounters a variety of terms. The term “Bug Out Location” is usually among some of the first new vocabulary words one learns upon exploring the world of Prepping. Since there is no real dictionary description for a Bug Out Location it took a little bit of …