The Health Benefits of Prickly Ash

By Tara Dodrill

December 3, 2019 08:26

Prickly ash is a natural herbal supplement that has been used to treat a myriad of conditions and injuries for thousands of years. This perennial plant can be grown as either a tree or a shrub, making it a great survival garden addition for preppers no matter where they live.

Prickly ash is commonly referred to as the toothache tree, pepper wood, northern prickly ash, Chuan jiao, yellow…

The Biggest Mistakes You Can Make In A Blackout – Field Report From Venezuela

By Maybell Nieves

November 21, 2019 09:10

The electrical problem that Venezuela is currently experiencing is a difficult situation to explain to those who have not personally experienced all the stages of Hugo Chávez’s government from 1998 until today.

Nevertheless, I will try to summarize the most important aspects that have led us to this collapse, which is only a reflection of the…

Survival Items Lewis and Clark Had with Them on Their Two-Year Journey

By Rich M.

November 22, 2019 07:25

The famous journey by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase, map out the Missouri River and find the fabled “Northwest Passage” to the Pacific Ocean is an important part of American History. Never before had such an expedition been undertaken and considering that they were traveling into uncharted and unsettled…

Man Eats Expired Food for 365 Days. This Is What Happened:

By Rich M.

November 19, 2019 08:42

We go through a lot of food here in the US; some 815 billion calories per day. Unfortunately, about 200 billion of those calories of food are wasted. That’s something like 200,000 tons of food; enough to feed 80 million people. But why is this so? Are we just a wasteful society, as some say, or is there something behind all this waste?

Some estimates say that as much…

12 Things You Need to Know Before Choosing Your Bug Out Location

By Rich M.

November 8, 2019 08:21

Bug out plans are part and parcel of good prepping. While bugging in is the more popular option, for a number of reasons, there is always the risk of being caught in a situation where your home becomes untenable. When that happens, you’ve got to have a Plan B: your bug out plan.

Sadly, very few preppers have a complete bug out plan. Oh, they’ll have something;…

Prepper Survival Guide and Backwoods Survival Guide

For those new to my little corner of the Internet, I am the Editor in Chief for both Prepper Survival Guide and Backwoods Survival Guide magazines. These are quarterly print publications that are published by Centennial Media. Here are the covers for the current issues that are available in stores right now.



You can find them just about anywhere magazines are sold, including:

Walmart

Sam's…

15 Best Herbs for Your Prepper Garden

By KJ Barber

November 5, 2019 07:48

Gardens are wonderful, on many levels. They allow us to plant specifically what we want, maybe save a little money and, most importantly, have some control over the way our foods and herbs are treated before they enter our systems.

Preppers like to be prepared for anything, which is why so many of us have our own gardens. Planning it out just right for harvesting, as well as making sure…

How To Make Oil From Plants At Home

By Anela T

October 31, 2019 09:50

Plant oils have been present in human cuisine since the beginning of time. At first, humans probably used animal fat, but they learned how to extract plant oils very soon after that.

Plant oils are triglycerides gained from the plant source, whether a nut tree or plant-like flax or corn. The edible oils have been used in cooking or as a supplement for millennia but also for lighting lamps,…

INSTRUCTIONS:

Preheat your oven to 300°.

In a medium-sized bowl, stir together your flour, salt, and (if you’re using them) extra seasonings...

On a floured surface, roll out your dough to 1/2-inch thickness...

Place the biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet and poke them with a fork to allow for more evening cooking and reduce puffing.

Bake the biscuits for 2 hours, flip them over, and bake them for another 30 minutes or until the edges are firm and the tops are slightly…

How To Make Clarified Butter With 12-Month Shelflife

By KJ Barber

October 24, 2019 08:18

Making clarified butter is a relatively simple process. But, if you haven’t ever worked with clarified butter, you might be wondering what it is…and why bother going through any trouble at all, when you have been content with working with standard butter?

Both good questions…

What is Clarified Butter?

Clarified butter is butter that has been through a process to…

How to Identify and Use Kratom – the Painkilling Plant that Substitutes Opioids

By Giurgi C.

October 18, 2019 07:59

Derived from a type of evergreen tree, kratom contains two alkaloid compounds called mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. These act directly upon the nervous system to induce a calming, pain-relieving effect.

Although originally from Asia, kratom has slowly started to gain popularity throughout the West in the last couple of years. And a few…

10 Most Sought-After Bartering Items in Venezuela

By Maybell Nieves

October 14, 2019 08:13

About 50 years ago, Venezuela was one of the most stable countries in the world. Even with huge oil reserves, however, little is left of the so-called Saudi Venezuela.

More than 30 years of misguided economic policies unleashed what is now Venezuela: a country full of misery, long lines to buy food, and hospitals and public health centers in poor condition. We are also…

11 Frontier Survival Hacks Worthy of Daniel Boone

By Rich M.

October 15, 2019 10:02

Daniel Boone is an American Icon. An important part of our nation’s history, Boone is almost a legend, especially well known for his earlier years as a professional hunter, trapper and frontiersman. Yet that’s not all he did. Daniel Boone fought in the French and Indian War, on the side of the British (before the Revolution) and was a member of the Virginia General Assembly during…

Survival Skills: Learning from Insurgent Tactics

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For those that like to maintain a state of readiness to deal with uncertain times, it’s important to maintain a steady, regular supply of clean water, food, first aid, tools and survival skills. If you’ve ever watched the show “Doomsday Preppers”, you’ll likely see that there are quite a few people who have their own ideas about how to survive a…

How To Make A Pantry Under Your Bed

By Calamity Janet

October 7, 2019 11:47

A Proper Prepper’s Pantry…is totally hidden from view. You don’t want every Tom, Dick, and Mary who walks into your home to know you’re a prepper, and you don’t want to make it easy for vandals, looters, and marauders to haul your stash away. Secrecy is key! (Which is, of course, why I’m revealing my secrets to the world at large!) Here we have instructions for constructing a proper…

Best Ways to Heat Your Off-Grid Home This Winter

By Rich M.

October 4, 2019 07:28

Going off-grid seems to be something like the holy grail of the prepping and survival community. I mean, which of us wouldn’t love to be able to live our lives, without having to pay those bills every month? Why wouldn’t we want to go off-grid, especially if it means that we are more self-sufficient, preparing ourselves for the inevitable disaster, whatever and whenever that might…

The 24 Highest Calorie Vegetables for Your Survival Garden

By Rich M.

September 30, 2019 07:52

Whoever came up with the idea of gardening, way back in the caveman days, surely did a favor to those of us who live a life of disasters preparedness. While the idea of having a stockpile of food and other supplies is perfect for short to medium-term survival situations, the true long-term survival situations, those which we refer to as TEOTWAWKI events, will surely…

The Pioneer Dish That Never Ends: Perpetual Soup

By James Walton

September 26, 2019 06:54

The pioneering lifestyle didn’t really lend itself to long leisurely lengths over the stove. If you weren’t married and, on the prairie, running cattle, trapping or logging, well, you would still need to eat but no one would be at home cooking for you.

The idea behind perpetual soup was that, with a well-managed fire, you could simmer broth and other ingredients in your…

Do You Know Your Rights Under Martial Law?

By James Walton

September 27, 2019 06:06

In 1861, following a riot and the destruction of the transportation system Abraham Lincoln enacted Martial Law in Maryland. 12 voters from the General Assembly were arrested and prevented from voting on secession. The scars of the civil war are so deep that many of them are hard to believe. Its very hard to understand the necessary evil that was required to keep the nation…

10 Most Powerful Medicinal Plants Used by Cherokees

By Sarah Rodriguez

September 24, 2019 06:38

The Cherokee Indians were one of the largest Native American Tribes that settled in the southeastern part of America. The tribe was originally of Iroquoian descent, and lived in the Appalachian Mountains. Eventually they settled towards the east coast.

The Cherokees actually lived in log cabins and not teepees as always portrayed. The Spanish settlers brought over…