Peak Phosphorous

May 30, 2013

Should you be worried about Peak Phosphorous? What IS Peak Phosphorous? Let’s start at the beginning. Phosphorous is the P in NPK. Those are the 3 elements that fertilizer strengths are measured in. They are the 3 main nutrients plants need to grow and thrive.  In various forms it is a component of DNA, a [...]

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Justice Caps Review/Giveaway

May 29, 2013

Howdy Folks!   Today I have a short review on a product the fine folks at Justice Caps ( http://www.justicecaps.com ) sent us.     Justice caps have developed a product aimed squarely at the the guy trying to stay “off the grid”. What this product does is use 9 LEDs that boast, according the [...]

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How To Preserve Early Spring Crops

May 28, 2013

Early  spring crops are welcome in every garden. Sometimes though, you can have too much of a good thing. How’s a prepper to handle the excesses? Preserve as much as possible of course! Rhubarb – This one goes nicely into the cabinet as a jam/jelly. Boil it up with some sugar and strawberries and store [...]

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Happy Memorial Day!

May 27, 2013

This is for all those who have died to keep us free. We remember. -Jarhead Survivor BTW: They sleep safely in their beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do them harm.   -George Orwell (or a believed to be a sentiment he held)

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DIY – Making A Cozy To Help Save Stove Fuel

May 24, 2013

First of all I’d like to thank everybody who participated in the LifeStraw give away.  The comments and ideas you guys left were truly excellent and I and my team will be implementing some of those very soon. The lucky winners are… Tommy – with this comment, “I would really like more gear and training [...]

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New Gardener Hints and Tips

May 23, 2013

There are some tips and hints I usually end up giving new gardeners. I know we’ve got some of those among our readers this year, so this is for y’all. Assume you WON’T remember. You are putting seeds in the ground, pretty little rows, in logical places. You may think, “Oh, I’ll remember this, no [...]

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TRW’s Best and Worst SHTF guns

May 22, 2013

Howdy everyone!   In response to your requests for more visual media in Jarhead’s Lifestraw giveaway post, I hustled out and made a quick video on shooting while moving, with me popping a couple 2-liter containers full of water with my AR while moving in the sandpit. I was pretty pleased with myself, especially since [...]

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Can We Survive Bee Extinction?

May 21, 2013

Well, the Environmental Destruction Agency has approved a brand new (and more deadly) poison in the arms race between industrial farmers and nature. Despite new findings that prove a heightened crisis in US bee populations and a recent ban in Europe on similar chemical applications, the EPA has decided to further endanger the population Monday [...]

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Lifestraw Giveaway – Post Comment to Win

May 19, 2013

The folks over at eartheasy have kindly put up a couple of LifeStraws for a give away today.  How sweet is that? What’s a LifeStraw you ask?  Check it out: The LifeStraw personal water filter, a “Best Invention of the Year” (Time magazine) winner, enables users to drink water safely from contaminated water sources. LifeStraw [...]

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Coming Soon…

May 18, 2013

Some of you might have seen a post I just put up about What to Expect After TEOTWAWKI.  Unfortunately it was barely a draft.  I was in a coffee shop with my kindle writing a post and the software I was using posted it instead of saving it as a draft. Oops! Anyway, stay tuned [...]

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Safeguard Body Armor Review

May 17, 2013

One of the cool things about owning this blog is that occasionally people will send me really awesome stuff to try out.  One of the latest items was sent to me by Safeguard Armor.  They wanted me to try out their Stealth Body Armor with a Threat Level II configuration, meaning that it will stop [...]

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Avoiding Death by Garden

May 16, 2013

Have any of you read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma?  Parts of it have been drifting through my head this week as I plant seeds, for food that I may sell at market. Knowing that my family will eat the garden output is usually plenty of stress, but somehow knowing that I may sell that produce [...]

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Firearms and BOBs

May 15, 2013

Hey everyone! For today’s article, I was hoping some of you could help share some ideas on the concept of weaponizing Bug-Out-Bags. I have a system of doing this (which I will share) but it’s kind of klunky, and some thoughts to streamline it would be appreciated. Maybe some of you will see my system [...]

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