Though city survival during emergency conditions is a little more problematical than the country, it can still be done. With less storage space, it requires a bit more creativity to figure out where to stash everything but the process remains the same. You’re going to need to take care of your beans, bullets, and Band-Aids. [...]

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Irvine, California – July 10, 2010 – Food preparedness consultant, Karen Varner, joins the Holistic Survival Show with Jason Hartman on episode four. During the interview, Karen engages listeners with some tips on how to prepare a food supply, store food and water supplies, and know what quantities are needed for a family during an emergency.

Food dehydration is an excellent method for adding to your long term food storage cache. But is it hard to do, and is there any nutrition left in the food when you’re done? The answers to those questions are “no” and “yes.” First, let’s define exactly what food dehydration is. It means exactly what you [...]

Wheat should be an integral part of your food storage plan. With a ready source of wheat you can grind flour to make bread, biscuits, cookies, cakes, breakfast cereals, pasta noodles, beer, and even biofuels. In a survival situation where you’re tapping into your long term food supplies, the diversity of wheat can make menus [...]

That’s a pretty bold statement but who could argue that the classic Stanley stainless steel thermos is, quite possibly, the greatest invention in the history of civilization. You’ve got a better idea? Anesthesia? Piffle! The wheel? Pure silliness! What’s better than a thermos designed so well it is basically the same as it was 90 [...]

Cleaning up dirty water

Interruption of the water supply by natural disaster is a very real possibility at some point in everyone’s life. Going without water is a whole different ballgame than food. A healthy person can live as long as eight weeks without food but only a matter of days in the absence of water. [...]

As the main operational food ration for the United States Armed Forces, soldiers, airmen, coasties, and squids know the ins and outs of the Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE). Having evolved from the C-rations and K-rations of World War II, the MRE arrived inside the stomachs of American fighting men and women in 1980.
For modern survivalists, we [...]

If you’re ever camping or find yourself in a wilderness situation, it would be good to be familiar with at least one form of “caching” your provisions from animals with no conscience – we’re talking bears, raccoons, foxes, dogs, porcupines, squirrels, rats, snakes, etc.
You probably don’t want to hump all your supplies everywhere you go, [...]

The problem is not that there’s too little water on planet earth. The problem is there is not enough fresh water in the right places. Consider that the southwest region of the United States is one of the most rapidly growing in the nation and has a declining water table. Next consider that most of [...]

Chlorella is a green algae that grows in freshwater ponds in the Far East. A minority of people around the world have been experiencing the health benefits for decades but new studies in Japan show it to be very effective in fighting lifestyle diseases. We here in the western world know all about lifestyle diseases. [...]

Everybody likes a good canned meat joke, right? You know, Spam, stuff like that. But determining how long a shelf life you can expect from your food provisions is deadly serious business to the modern survivalist. The short answer is “a heck of a long time.” More than 100 years to be precise.
The following story [...]

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Food storage is a wise investment for future individual and family stability. Many believe the idea of food storage is for extreme disasters, but there also are many everyday reasons to put extra food away… especially in uncertain times. Visit http://www.holisticsurvival.com/podcast-with-holistic-survival.php.  We are all subject to events beyond our control. Electrical blackouts, unexpected unemployment, [...]

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Though still a chilling thought, the prospect of a state(s) in the United States of America declaring bankruptcy is not as far-fetched as it used to be. What if it’s your state? What would the immediate aftermath look like?
For starters, you can expect an immediate shutdown of state-funded services and programs, followed by widespread panic, [...]

Let’s talk about food storage. There’s probably not much else on this planet that would give you more peace of mind than having an adequate emergency supply of food. How much should you have? Good question. Three months would be nice. Six months would be great. One year would be spectacular.
We know the idea of [...]