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Food Storage

160 Reasons Why You Should Stock Plenty of Coconut Oil

After you read this article, you’ll want to make sure you always have plenty of coconut oil stocked in your preparedness pantry, and even your every day pantry. It has so many uses, it’s almost mind boggling. In fact, in

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How To Make Hardtack Step By Step

I’m not really sure why anyone would want to eat this particular survival food known as Hardtack, but you may find yourself in a situation where that’s all you have available to you. The only thing that’s good about it

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How To Grow and Harvest Wheat By Hand

Although grains are still grown and harvested by hand in many other parts of the world, it has become a lost art in the United States. Technology has paved the way to giving farmers the ability to do more faster.

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How To Store Herbs and Spices Long Term

If you’re storing food long term, make sure you include herbs and spices. In most cases, the food you’re storing will taste very bland. And if you have picky eaters (ie: young children), those spices will come in handy to

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8 Great Ways To Cook Without Power

So you are storing extra food for times of emergency, right?  Unless you have all canned goods or MRE’s, that food will need to be cooked once it’s time to actually eat it.  However, in many emergency situations you won’t

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Raising Laying Hens From Chicks: A Step By Step Guide

If you’ve been considering raising hens for egg laying, you really should take a look at this step-by-step guide to raising laying hens from chicks. It covers everything you’ll need from gathering materials and supplies to the actual taking care

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20 Things You Should Never Throw Away

There’s a good chance you’ve thrown away stuff you used to think was garbage, but would keep now that you are a prepper. And even though you may be starting to think along those lines of what you can and

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How To Make Your Own MRE’s

If you’ve ever purchased MRE‘s (meals ready to eat) or are planning to, then you probably already realize that the cost can add up fast. Here’s a great article on how to make your own MRE’s. Not only will this

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How To Store Winter Squash & Pumpkins

Storing winter squash, especially butternut squash, can be a bit of a pain. For starters, they are big vegetables, so they take up a lot of space. And depending on where you store them, they can rot rather easily –

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5 Wild Edibles Probably Sitting In Your Backyard

Hopefully by now you are growing your long term food storage supplies. And if you are, then you’re doing great and are in much better shape from a preparedness point of view than 98% of everyone else. You have your

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