The topic of a recent Prepper Zoom Meetup was: “If you had 30 minutes notice to bug out, what would you take?” I said, my Quick Camper Kit as emergency mobile shelter. A few of the attendees wanted to see…
Bug-Out Vehicle: Improvising A Camper
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Lime-water Stored Eggs at 10 months: A Taste Test
The second dozen eggs I had stored in lime-water last May was now 10 months old. Time for the second taste test. How did they do? Read on. I tested the first of the two half-gallon jars of stored eggs…
Preserving Eggs in Lime water, 5 month test
Every spring, the hens lay more eggs than we can comfortably eat. This spring we tried something new (to us), preserving whole eggs in lime water. Today was the first taste test at 5 months. We regularly leave unwashed eggs…
Gear Test: Poop in a bucket for two weeks
For many preppers out there, how to “go” sustainably after SHTF, is potentially a big problem. Bugging in is a popular strategy but many homes depend on municipal sewer and water. Where do you “go” when your toilets stop working?…
How To Dehydrate Eggs for long-term storage
What do you do when springtime has your chickens laying more eggs than you can (or should) eat? We give some away, but I’m also saving my surplus for next winter when the hens stop laying. I am making powdered eggs. If you have a dehydrator, you can too!
Long-term Food: Growing and Storing as a solution
Our approach to long-term food storage is two-pronged. The more active prong is improved sustainability — growing new food each year. Stored food eventually runs out. The only sustainable long-term food solution is to make new food.
Three Sisters Soup: Eat What You Grow
If you grow a garden to be less dependent upon industrial food, or as a survival skill, a useful exercise is to try making a meal out of only what you grew in your garden. We have become so accustomed…
Can You Run Your Refrigerator From Batteries?
One of the big concerns during a power outage is that all the food in your fridge will spoil. To prevent that, preppers buy generators. Fridges used so much power that driving them from batteries was not practical…until now. We…
Bug Out to the Woods for 40 Years: Lessons from the Lykov Family
When a man named Karp Lykov decided that the S had Hit The Fan, he took his family and bugged out to the woods. They stayed out there, undetected, for over 40 years! Their experience has relevant lessons for preppers…
Rice Weevils: Is something ELSE eating your stored food?
Amassing an emergency supply of rice is easy. Keeping it safe from pests can be a challenge. Rice weevils could compromise your stash of rice and move into other stored grains. Here are some tips on prevention and remediation. This…