Valley Food Storage – Great Tasting Emergency Food
When preppers discuss the supplies you need to be ready for anything, food is naturally at the top of the list.
Author Pat Henry
Pat Henry
Freedom-loving American doing what I can to help prepare and inform others. Editor and creator of The Prepper Journal 2013-2017, 2020 -
Apocalypse Training 101: Learn How to Survive the End of the World
Do you know how to survive the end of the world? Get the keys to apocalypse training 101 and learn how to prepare for SHTF.
Interview with Prepper Children’s Author Benjamin Ellefson
Benjamin Ellefson is a prepper who writes children’s books with themes of preparedness and survivalism.
Bug Out Vehicle Load Plan – Get Out of Danger Fast
What if this simple bug out vehicle load plan could get your and your family on the road faster?
9 Less Than Lethal Self-Defense Items
I wanted to write today about some less than lethal self-defense items that can be employed by just about anyone who can’t or does not want to own a firearm
How Many Days Before You Give up Hope When SHTF?
Are we avoiding conversations that we may need to consider now that involve the very real prospect of death?
The Best Way Home: SHTF Route Planning
It’s one of the more common problems us preppers try to figure out. What is the best way home as quickly and safely as possible when SHTF and you are far away?
Survival Gear: Setting Your Group Standard
I am talking about the decisions you will make regarding the survival gear and equipment that your larger mutual assistance group is going to use. It is important to standardize on several major pieces of gear if you want to function cohesively as a unit.
What Are You Prepared to Do When Your Family Is Hungry?
What if something happened and you were unable to acquire any more food through traditional means and your family is hungry? What would you be forced to do in order to live?
How to Travel Like a Prepper
There are some lessons I have learned and rules that I try to follow as closely as I can when I travel that could keep me alive and help me make it back home if disaster struck and I was away from my family.
Are You Guilty of Hoarding? How to Prepare for Coming Shortages
Hoarding is normal by humans during times of scarcity. It is how the smart survive while the foolish perish. You accumulate or store additional provisions that you likely will need later but due to forces beyond your control, are unable to get.
After the Apocalypse: What Will You Do Then?
But an apocalypse is something that you could still live through, right? At least that is what many of us seem to be prepping for. What could life be like after the apocalypse and why do so many preppers need to adjust your thinking about the probable facts of life we all plan on living through.
Survival Kit for Not Quite the End of the World
You can still have some level of preparedness without going to the lengths that some of us choose to do. Granted, you are only going to be as prepared as the level of time and energy you put into it, but something is better than nothing.
What Is Your Emergency Response Plan?
What could an emergency response plan for your family look like and where would you start prepping?
Talking to Your Parents About Prepping
Talking to your parents about prepping isn’t easy but it can be done and you may get them on-board with prepping too.
Bug Out Bike: Good Idea or Death Trap?
One of the main problems preppers seem to be drawn to solve is the very realistic potential of having to drop everything and bug out of your home in a moment’s notice. Today I want to focus on one potential answer to the bugging out problem, the bug out bike.
Back to Basics: Avoiding Conflict When SHTF
What if we could modify our thought process for a while and avoid conflict when SHTF instead of considering violence as the inevitable outcome of the prepper haves versus the unprepared have nots?
Back to Basics: Are You Prepared to Defend Your Family?
Many years ago when I started prepping the world wasn’t radically different. We didn’t live in any Nirvana of goodwill and peace, but the idea of preparing to defend your life from bad guys was met with much more resistance than it does now.
Back to Basics: How to Stockpile Food for Emergencies
Last week I began a new series called, Back to Basics. As I said in…
Paratus 3 Day Operator’s Pack Review
In Prepper circles there are a myriad of opinions on gear selection. From the best…
Back to Basics: How to Stockpile Drinking Water Now
I wanted to start a new series on the Prepper Journal called “Back to Basics”.…
P3Solar Dynamo Plus Review – Backup Power
I am always refining my prepping plans and the associated tools and gear I think…
Drawbacks to Carrying Concealed
Concealed carry is one way that people can keep protection, in the form of a…
Christmas Buying Guide – Give the Gift of Prepping
It is finally December and for me and all of the other procrastinators out there,…
Gunslinger Quick-Draw Hand Well Pump – Grid down Backup
As part of my preps, water is high on the list of items I strive…
100 Deadly Skills – Lifesaving Tips for Preppers
I am always looking to learn skills that can improve many facets of my life.…
Bugging out Lessons Learned While Hunting
I went hunting for the first time this year earlier in the week. I have…
The Salty Part of Your Survival Plan
One of the most diverse prepper considerations from the standpoint of a long-term disaster is…
What Are Your Prepping Blind Spots?
The cooler temperatures in the air remind me of the approach of winter and with…
Lifesaving Survival Tips to Keep You Alive in the Wilderness
A growing number of people are planning for bad things to happen. We take care…