Emergency preparedness kit

By HI SIBLEY WHILE excavating for a new house in the weed-grown lot next door, workmen unearthed a surprising maze of caves and trenches. Evidently they had been dug many seasons before because bushes and weeds were growing luxuriantly from the soil spread over the roofs. Considerable grading and no end of fancy language were required before the lot was in shape to build on. But it proved that a well-made cave is about as substantial a clubhouse as a boy can make.

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Crochet your own beautiful cape with ridged texture and gorgeous drape using Truboo yarn! Free pattern and step-by-step tutorial available!

The Dakota fire hole is an ancient technique in making a fire pit. This technique were often used by American Indians. This fire-building technique is good to when evade a human tracker, try to avoid…

Weather folklore explained. Learn how to predict the weather.

I am loving it and haven't looked back. There is always new information to be learned and this article is proof of that for me.

Tarps come in many sizes and varying qualities, but all of them can be very useful in a survival situation. Here are 25 survival uses for tarps.

Knowing how to safely build a fire for warmth and cooking is an essential, basic, self-sufficiency skill that is completely FREE to learn!

If someone told you there was a "storm" coming, how fast would the winds be, and what would the effect be on objects on the ground? What about a "breeze" or a "stiff breeze?" In our everyday conversation, these are inexact terms and often two people using the same term will mean two very different things. This is the problem the Royal Navy had in the early 1800s. The more precise the weather observations the navy's officers could record in their logs, the easier it would be to predict the…

When my grandmother passed away, I was fortunate enough to have inherited her small collection of cookbooks. I love flipping through them, not just for the fun retro recipes for elegant desserts (…

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In this guide, I go over all the basics of wilderness survival including primitive and modern methods, along with gear recommendations.

Do you know how to stay clean in the wilderness? Check out these 13 outdoor camping hygiene hacks and learn tricks to get rid of camper's funk and gunk.

All women should have some way of providing defense for themselves when being attacked. This article helps you learn simple self defense tactics that will help you in most situations

Survival wisdom, Great Depression -- Those go hand in hand when studying how millions survived the toughest years in American history. Here are 65 survival lessons.