There is more to harvest from a big game animal than just the meat. With a little thought and ingenuity, you can find useful projects that will use most parts of the animal!

Most of us can’t take all the survival field classes and seminars we’d like to, and only a fool would create a real emergency to see how he might react! But these five books will help you develop the most important part of any wilderness survival kit: the survival mindset!

Amanda Ripley’s book “The Unthinkable” is not about disaster recovery: It’s about what happens in the midst of one – before emergency personnel arrive and structure is imposed on the loss. It’s about the human reaction to disaster and how you should act if you want to survive.

  Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation using mainly simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods. Are you using the storage foods in your pantry? One piece of preparedness advice is that mossy old saying: “Store what you eat, and eat what you [...]

    Survival food is sustenance that can be made easily during a survival or emergency situation using mainly simple, long-term storage food items, cooked outdoors, using off-the-grid methods. by Leon Pantenburg One way to stretch your storage food and prepper dollars is by taking advantage of the fresh fruits and vegetables that are in [...]

Stockpiling, using and getting used to the items in your food storage pantry is critical. But, there are some times, such as now, when the gardens are coming in. All this wonderful fresh produce is available, and it would be a shame not to use it.

Ask a preparedness expert: What is the first thing to do to get started on preparing your home and family for a disaster? Chances are, that expert will tell you to start a discussion about the topic.

I was the guest on Destiny Survival Radio  show Thursday.  The discussion was about starting out camping, what gear to look for, and how to use that gear for prepping and wilderness survival. “How do I get started?” That seems to be the most frequent question asked by newcomers to the prepping and survival scene. [...]

A Mora can do about 90 percent of what I need an outdoor knife to do. And while I’ve yet to find the ultimate do-everything survival knife, a Mora can come really close!

Beginners frequently ask for a list of tools to get started in Dutch oven cooking. So, here’s a basic, bare-bones list of Dutch oven survival kit necessities.