"Before all kids everywhere became glued to iPad screens, they had crabapple wars."
Read moreDisaster Prep: Defining Your Parameters
"Some 72% of Americans don’t have enough supplies to last them for three days. For some, it’s even less than that. So that’s where we’re starting. Which leads us to a good question: Where DO you start?"
Read more#WildEdibleWednesday 9/27 - Eastern Blazing Star
"There are not many prettier sights in the South than walking through an open field while hunting or gathering and seeing these tall, showy flower stalks shooting out of the broomsedge like purple fireworks."
Read moreSurvival Time Machine, Part 1
Imagine if you could go back to the past. What would it be like if you knew back then what you know now? What would you do differently? What decisions would you change? Would you take a different approach? Would you take another path? Would you change anything at all? Well, I discovered a way to do just that. If you find that interesting, buckle up and hold on. I found a time machine and I know how to hot wire it.
Read more#WildEdibleWednesday 9/20 - Duck Potato
Without this innocuous-looking plant, the most legendary American explorers of their century would probably be no more than a footnote in history.
Read more#WildEdibleWednesday 9/13 - White Oak
“They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of His splendor.” - Isaiah 61:3
Read moreSo, You Didn't Prepare?
The storm is now bearing down on you, the shelves of every store are empty, and the power is about to go out. And you’re fresh out of toilet paper. Well, you’re not alone.
Read more#WildEdibleWednesday 9/6 - Willow
Cultures all over the world, from the ancient Egyptians and Assyrians to native tribes throughout North America and Siberia, have all used willow bark as a pain reliever and fever reducer. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates even wrote about it in the 5th century BC.
Read moreYou Don't Rise to the Occasion...
I vaguely remember Chief Strobl telling me that I was killing my patient – I’d missed a major bleed stemming from her brachial artery and she was going into irreversible hemorrhagic shock...
Read moreA Round of Positivity
It doesn’t matter what book you read, what video you watch or what famous survival celebrity you follow. You will learn the same thing from all of them- Your attitude determines your altitude. However, how to keep and maintain that positivity is very rarely addressed. Shelter, fire, water, first aid, signaling, food and rest always get elaborated on. Shouldn’t the most important priority get more attention? I certainly believe so. Here’s how I do it…
Read moreIs Prepping Paranoia - Or Worse?
"For most of American history, prepping wasn’t called prepping. It was called common sense."
Read moreAll Hail the Squirrel
Redneck boys don’t get together and talk trash to each other about who’s going to get the season’s trophy squirrel. I think this is a crying shame. Allow me to explain.
Read moreSeven Steps to Staying Found
In July 2013, 66-year-old Geraldine Largay, a long-distance section hiker on the Appalachian Trail, was scheduled to meet her husband for a food pickup in Redington Township, Maine, before continuing her hike. She never showed up. Two years later, her remains were discovered by a surveying crew.... She was half a mile from the trail.
Read moreWhat FUELS your FIRE?
“Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.”
-Mors Kochanski
Read moreYou Think it Won't, Until it Does.
Hypothermia was just about the farthest thing from my mind in late July, when I’d been trying to stay cool and avoid heat exhaustion a few hours before. Seriously, who thinks of worrying about death from loss of core temperature in the middle of a heat wave?
Read moreSpoonin'
"...Most people think it takes courage to do the thing that scares them the most, but the truth is that courage comes after you do the thing that scares you the most. Needless to say, the role was reversed this time, as I was the one about to take the plunge..."
Read moreWho We Are
A wise person forsees danger and takes precaution, while a fool goes blindly and suffers the consequences. –Proverbs 27:12
Read moreWelcome to SARCRAFT
It’s hard to see a vision of the future when beginning a journey. There’s a picture in your head of how things will turn out, the things you’ll see, the people you’ll meet, and what kind of experience you’ll have.
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