“Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.”

-Ezra Taft Benson, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Yesterday I decided that I would bite the bullet and make Seitan, or what some people like to call “wheat meat” or “gluten meat.” For those who haven’t read about it or eaten it themselves, Seitan is the product of wheat gluten and a liquid, and the resulting food product you get after cooking it [...]

Friday, I took advantage of some free child care and finally completed something I’ve wanted to do for a while: Red Cross CPR and First Aid training. The official title of the class was First Aid and CPR/AED for Infants, Adults, and Children. This course basically crams every training the Red Cross offers in my [...]

As I may have mentioned, I’m a regular reader of the Preparedness Pro blog. I enjoy reading this blog since it is obviously written by someone who is intelligent and has taken the time to research what she talks about. Most of the time that I read it, I learn a lot from her. I’ll [...]

M.D. Creekmore over at the The Survivalist Blog – a survival blog dedicated to helping others prepare for and survive disaster, is giving away a  The Tactical Advantage book and DVD set by Gabriel Suarez and a copy of Don’t Get Caught With Your Pantry Down by James Talmage Stevens! To enter, you just [...]

This post is a little delayed since my digital camera has been missing and I wanted to include pictures, but better late than never! You may remember that in my earlier post, I talked about my plans to start seeds, and what I had done so far. Here’s a recap of what I did:

I planted [...]

I stumbled upon this article and, although it looks like it was written a while ago, it’s still pretty good. It is a how-to of how to be a good witness when you talk to the police or 911, written by a police dispatcher. Good info, IMO.

“History tells us that great powers when they’ve gotten into very significant fiscal problems have ceased to be great powers.”
-Alan Greenspan

“There’s a lot of transmitted information  in hurricane-prone areas, and earthquake-prone areas, that basically say you should certainly be able to take care of yourself for seven days, you should have enough water and enough food to do that. I think that, personally, that’s woefully inadaquate. I think that people need to be able to understand how they’re [...]

After reading an article from one of my favorite survival blogs today, I started thinking of how common it is in the prepper community to talk about the threat of an EMP, or about power outages caused by storms, but how few actually mention the threat of cyber-terrorism. When people think of cyber-terrorism, my observation [...]