I have started watching one place almost as closely as the grocery store, and that is the local pantry. When flour disappears from shelves I pay attention, and the same…

There is an exercise I think every prepper should try once. Stand in the middle of your house and imagine leaving it, not for a weekend but for good, with…

If you asked me to choose between another case of food and another reliable source of safe water, I would take the water first. Food is the easy one, because…

I can walk into a grocery store today and still find a cooler full of beef, with steaks and roasts stacked where they have always been. Nothing about that display…

I grew up in a world where grease was something you drained off, wiped out of the pan, and eventually threw away. The older I get, the stranger that seems.…

Election week has a way of following people into rooms where it does not belong. The television is on. Phones keep lighting up. Somebody reads a headline aloud, another rolls…

One of the mistakes we make preparing for shortages is assuming the valuable things will always be the obvious things. Food, fuel, medicine, ammunition. Those deserve attention. But history has…

We have spent generations trying to take the bitterness out of food. We sweeten grapefruit. We tame salad greens. We breed vegetables milder every decade. We pull dandelions out of…

Every fall I move a few things out of the garage before the first hard freeze. Not because I am worried about the cold itself, but because of what the…

Most people think a water emergency begins when the faucet stops working. I think the more dangerous situation is the one where the faucet still works. The water looks normal.…