Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to make a 72-hour survival kit. Impact Ratings: ? Level of Commitment: Leap of Faith Why bother? Some disasters (forest fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, chemical spills, and certainly more that my over-active imagination cannot even fathom) simply require evacuation, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Here’s a personal [...]
Entries from June 6th, 2011
Two Big Winners (or am I Seeing Double?)
June 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
It’s an exciting day for a couple of KS readers. I get to announce the one winner for the Royal Berkey system and another winner for the Fertility Flower one-year membership. *canned game show voice coming* But wait, there’s more! Jeff "the Berkey Guy" was so impressed with the big response to the filter giveaway [...]
Tags: Berkey·Fertility Flower·giveaway
Real Food Stockpile: Grains
June 2nd, 2011 · 58 Comments · Frugality
In The Long Winter, a book in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the family ends up in dire straits, trapped in a tiny new town with very few food stores, and no trains until spring. There’s a terrible blizzard about every 2-3 days that lasts 3 days, and no one can go [...]
Tags: food storage·grains·preparedness·rice·wheat
Real Food Stockpile: Dairy
June 1st, 2011 · 32 Comments · Frugality
Have a cow. Not in the style of Homer Simpson, but more like Old McDonald. Whenever I think about stockpiling an emergency store of dairy, like cheese, yogurt, and milk (which, um, my kids LIVE on!), I look at all the powdered milk options and figure the very best way to have milk on hand [...]
Tags: cheese·dairy·preparedness·yogurt
