Both faith and self-reliance are more often expressed through the frequent day-to-day applications than the rare catastrophic ones. It is one thing to die heroically for your beliefs, but quite…

Wants vs Needs As the war in Ukraine ramped up, I was researching survival ordeals and one trend that I noticed, was that it was not uncommon, due to widespread…

In this line of work, I have had the pleasure of reading many books on why some people survive while others do not and researched thousands of survival ordeals to…

I’ve tested a handful of water filters over the past few years. Pitchers, pump filters, inline hose setups, even improvised gravity rigs using food-grade buckets. Some were decent. Some were…

Before the age of urgent care clinics, antibiotic prescriptions, and over-the-counter pain relievers, fellow humans were dealing with a lot of health problems. However, the most urgent conditions they had…

I’ll be honest. I did not buy Mushroom MD because I’m into trends or ancient secrets. I bought it because I do not like depending entirely on systems I can’t…

Security, insulation, off-grid hacks, water cache. There are many reasons that you might want to turn a garden shed, or something similar, into a backup survival shelter: Don’t Put All…

When I first got my hands on Survival MD, I was not sure how practical it would be. I have seen plenty of medical preparedness books that either read like…

Not so long ago, making fire was somewhat more complicated than it is today. If you have made fire using friction methods, then you know that it takes practice and…

My grandfather could tell you what the weather would do three days out just by stepping onto his porch for five minutes. He’d look at the sky, watch the birds,…