Raising chickens in your backyard can be quite rewarding and exciting, especially for beginners. After all, chickens can be a…
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What is the most effective way of prepper parenting? Parenting at the best of times involves a mix of the…
If you have a squash bug (SB) or squash vine borer (SVB) problem, it can be a big problem. Some…
Some of us are restricted entirely to small spaces, and some of us have either clay, rock, or sandy soils…
Tibby is a young barn cat that will need to be euthanized within the next few days. She is less…
Editors Note: Another guest contribution from Dakota Murphey on site security, something she has written about before in The Prepper…
Sprouts can be a great solution for preppers at all levels, as well as our animals. They can be had…
Dead of winter or height of summer, there are some relatively quick, easy, and commonly inexpensive projects we can tackle…
Once we join this prepper culture, we start getting pushed toward heirloom seed stockpiles. There’s definitely value in heirloom and…
Canning jars come in a wide variety of sizes, and two common lid sizes. It’s not a bad idea to…
Preppers can reap some big rewards by applying some of the habits of successful market gardeners and small farmers to…
Big game and waterfowl gets plenty of attention when it comes to hunting, but there are a lot of reasons…
Editors Note: A guest contribution from Cat Murphy to The Prepper Journal. If you have information for Preppers that you would like…
Editors Note: Another article from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. As always, if you have information for Preppers that…
First let’s give a nod at the growing zones that are just entering or hitting the main strides of their…
Editors Note: An article from Claire Woods of The Happy Chicken Coop to The Prepper Journal. A source used by our…
On a budget or waste-minded, now and especially in hard times – whether they’re personal or widespread – making the…
The faithful chicken is a common choice for preppers and homesteaders. Once the bird bug bites, talk regularly turns to…
Editors Note: Another article from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. Think you know everything there is to know about…
Editors Note: Another article from R. Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. As always, if you have information for Preppers that…
Editors Note: Another article from R Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal. As always, if you have information for Preppers that…
Editors Note: Another article from R Ann Parris to The Prepper Journal, a supplement for her last post on the…
Preppers sometimes get the impression that spring answers the winter prayers of the hungry. Not always. One of the worst…
Editors Note: A guest submission from David Woods to The Prepper Journal. As always, if you have information for Preppers that…
I know, but we can dream can’t we? This just might work if you want to be your own grid-square.…
Our world has changed enormously in ten, twenty and fifty years. It’s night and day from a hundred years ago.…
Using mostly things that are also already in my storage or that are easy and inexpensive to obtain, I can churn out desserts, snacks, sides, dinners and breakfasts that are interesting and varied, and don’t really taste like oatmeal.
It has been on my list of things I should probably know how to do and when my stepfather, who keeps bees, brought me seven pounds of beeswax from his hives, I thought the time was right.
A disaster is a bad time to lose all of our conveniences in life. There are also some hand powered tools we can pull from the pages of history – and that inspire modern tools – that will help us with our self-reliance.
Whether bedding down in a sturdy home, on the move, or making a temporary camp for the snowy season, there are a lot of lessons we can take from history to keep us safer and more comfortable.