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Homesteading Between Prepping and Self-Reliance

There’s a lot of overlap in the communities of homesteading, prepping/self-reliance, and survival. Each genre has similar end goals: self reliance and ‘making it...

Ways to Prepare Your Homestead for SHTF

The truth is although you may get some advanced warning of a SHTF situation, no one will predict it with absolute certainty. There are...

Long-Term Ammunition Storage

If you are anything like I was about a decade back, all you needed to know about ammunition storage was ammo could survive the...

Free Range Children: Could Your Kids Survive SHTF On Their Own?

Why are you prepping? I don’t mean what type of SHTF specific SHTF scenario are you prepping for, but what is the motivation behind...

Do You Need More Than One Bug Out Bag?

This question has plagued avid preppers since bug out bags began their popularity, and for a good reason. Should you pack more weight into...

Prepping like Sun Tzu

Many regard Sun Tzu as the ultimate military strategist, at least in the way he described the more philosophical applications of combat strategy. Being more abstract...

The Prepper Skills You Need

As preppers and bushcrafters, we all know that guy. The one with every new gadget, clever tool and toy, but no real idea what he’s doing....

How to use Christmas to Get Your Friends and Family Into...

Gathering together with friends and family during Christmas time can be a prime opportunity to introduce preparedness into their lives – or expand on...

Survivalism, Prepping, and OPSEC

The topic of OPSEC (operations security) comes up all the time on SurvivalBlog, and I wholeheartedly agree that it is an important topic for...

Things I Wish I Knew About Prepping When I Started Out

In 2001, I was in my office at work and watched in horror with my colleagues as the second plane hit the towers and...

Letter from a Prepper – Bushcraft Show Axe Skills Demo

Axe techniques form an important part of a complete bushcraft skill set. I use axes while working in the woods as well as on...