Shelter

  

The Rule of 3 says:

You can die in:

1. 3 seconds without security;
2. 3 minutes without air;
3. 3 hours without shelter (in hostile weather);
4. 3 days without water &
5. 3 weeks without food.

So let's talk about shelter.  Shelter protects you from the weather, the sun, wind, rain, snow, heat, cold, and more.

Shelter might be something as simple as an emergency blanket, sleeping bag, bivy sack, a rain coat, a hat, or even sun tan lotion.  While these help keep you comfortable, they don't protect you from the kind of things that will kill you in 3 hours.... extreme weather... mainly extreme Temperature.  

Warm clothing, fire, a debris shelter, blanket, an Ice Igloo, or Snow Cave help protect you from the cold.  Shade, a hat, sun tan lotion, proper clothing, and water protect you from the heat.

 The key is to think about the risk you might face, and what provisions would be prudent, and be sure you have them available when needed.

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Blog Table of Contents

Beginners:

Top 10 List of Prepper info

Top Rated Prepper Handbook Posts of all time 

Top Rated Prepper Websites
Prepper Handbook Recommendations (low cost/must have)
Knowledge is FREE
Best Series

Beginner Prepper List;
The Rule of 3 (set priorities by this);
The SHTF Day One What do you do now?
US Government Recommended Preparations;
Step-by-Step Prepper Plan

Building your food stores the right way
Emergency Water Supply

Emergency Food Calculator  

The Best Gun

Best Handgun Selection Criteria

Communications 

Top 15 Prepper Movies or Shows

Why we are ALL Preppers (for skeptics) 

Urban Survival Plan  

Top 20 Prepper Books    

The First 5 Things to do after a Crisis

Silver vs. Paper Dollars 

First Aid 

5 Tips to stay safe during civil unrest

Prepping important now more than ever 

BB Gun

How to save on Emergency Supplies
National Preparedness Month
Sewer disposal when the SHTF
EDC Survival (Every Day Carry)
Top 3 EDC Survival Knives 

EDC-Men
EDC-Women 
Inexpensive First Gun
Backpack Selection Criteria

Handgun Introduction 
What is a Prepper?

Why we Prep

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Training – Children:

Prepper Training for Youths

Happy Children

Home School 101

Home Schooling for Preppers

Getting your kids off the Internet

Delivering Babies 

BB Gun

Vaccination 
 

Advanced Prepper Resources:

Prepper Handbook Table of Contents
Prepper Incremental Strategy
The right amount of Ammo
Group Security Drills
Actionable Intelligence

Red flag warnings its time to Bug Out
PVC Survival Tube
Bees for Prepping
Investing for Preppers
Prepper Savings Plan

Thermal Vision
Prepper Handbook
Salvaging Supplies (plan now)
Oath Keepers, true protectors of freedom

Seeds for Survival
Preppers Garden
Top 10 Barter Goods
Prepper Gift List

Budget Garden Preparations

Riot & Looting Preparations
Intruder Detection
Preppers New Years Resolutions 2017
Night Vision vs. Thermal Vision

Nomadic Prepper Strategy
Neighborhood Watch

 

Lessons Learned - Series

Lessons Learned - Alone Survival Show 

Lessons Learned - Hurricanes

Lessons Learned - Pandemic 

Introducing Skeptics to Prepping 

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Food and water:

 
Building your food stores the right way
Getting Started (Water)
Emergency Water Supply
Food Preparation and Preservation
Solar Distillation  

Best Prepper Chicken Breed
Bees for Prepping

Emergency Food Calculator 
 

Gardening Links
Gardening101 – Soil Basics
Green House for year-round food supply
Vegetable Planting Dates
Vegetable Days to Harvest

Budget Garden Preparations

Seeds for Survival
Preppers Garden
Food Shelf Life
Aquaponics

Growing your own food from seed

Practice Garden 

Fall Garden

Best Garden Investment 

Best Prepper Vegetable

Hidden Garden 

Prepper Livestock series

Chickens  

Goats

Pigeons

Rabbits 

Best Prepper Dog

Preppers Horse

Survival Fishing
3 Odd Techniques for Primitive Fishing
How to catch your own live bait

Noodling  

Survival Super food

Pioneer Recipes

Acorn Flour Pancakes

Pemmican Recipe

Hardtack Recipe

Corn Bread

Sour Dough Bread

Corn Fritters

Apple Cider Vinegar

More on making Vinegar

Backing Soda vs. Yeast

Baking Soda uses

Best Foods to Store

Smoked Brisket Recipe

Me Maw’s Goulash
Flatbread Recipe

Sustainable Meal Planning - Breakfast 
Sustainable Meal Planning - Lunch
Sustainable Meal Planning - Dinner
Sustainable Meal Planning - Snacks
Sustainable Meal Planning - Nutrition
Sustainable Meal Planning - Calories   

Understand Best By Dates 

ICE Fishing for Survival 

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Edible Wild Plants:

Chickweed & Hackberries

Green briar (cat briar)

Cattails 

Dandelion 

Pemmican recipe

Acorn Flour - Pancake recipe

Hard Tack recipe 

Growing Mushrooms 

Disaster Preparations:

Natural & Man Made Disaster Preparation

Terrorist Attack Preparations

Riot & Looting Preparations

Hurricanes

Flood Bug out Bag
 

Surviving an Asteroid Impact

Winter Storm Preparations 

Winter Freeze Preparations

Survive a 2 week power outage 

Power Outage Preps

Protecting America  

Pandemic Preparations

The End of Free America
The Government and You
Severe Storm Preparations 

Could you survive this?

Hurricanes  

Survive on a Deserted Island 

Civil War 

Emergency Essentials Disaster Preparations 

Nuclear Survival

Gas Mask 

Post Nuke Plan

Hurricane 101 Review 

EMP Survival  

EMP by Cheaper than Dirt

Over Population 

Backup Power Supply 

Backup Electricity under $50 

Maps for Survival 

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Firearms and security:

NRA Gun Safety Rules

Beginner Preppers List

Survival Pack

Ammo Inventory Target

 

Night Vision

Thermal Vision

Night Vision vs. Thermal Vision   

Red flag warnings its time to Bug Out

Bug Out Warning

Investing for Preppers (Financial Security)

Best Anarchy Investment: Seeds

The Best Gun

Best Handgun Selection Criteria

Group Security Drills

Urban Survival Perspective

Urban Survival Plan

The right amount of Ammo

Gun Free Zone Facts

Protecting America   

Why I avoid doing business in Gun Free Zones

Passive Layered Security

Communications

Actionable Intelligence

PVC Survival Tube  

Using your garden for cover 

Security Patrol Pack (or Bug Out pack) 

Country Home Security Plan 

Home Invasion Response Plan

Guns in plain sight

Situational Awareness 

Intruder Detection 

Riot Preparations 

Double Barreled Defense 

Bear Attacks  

Bear: Gun vs. Pepper spray

Best Handgun for Bear Attacks

Modern Home Security

Sustainable City Survival

BB Gun

Top 5 Combat Rifles 

Best Preppers Dog

Rechargeable Batteries 

Random Security

Modern Defensive Shotguns

Active Shooter

Top 10 AR-15s

Ballistic Tip AR Ammo

AR Optics 

Best Survival Knife 

FBI Ammo

Marines Rifle

Home Defense Preparation 

Infiltration

22 LR for Defense 

22 LR for Hunting & Survival

.338 Lapua 
Handgun Introduction 

Ammo Reloading

How much Ammo is enough? 

S&W Snub Nose 

Prepper Training Drills 

Home Security

Create a home defense plan that works

Archery 

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Shelter:

Concrete Bunker Plans

Starter Solar Power System 

$5 Solar Battery Charger

Solar Powered Home Design  

Sustainable Living System

Sustainable Lighting 

Ozark Prepper Homestead 

Best Camp Sight Selection Criteria 

DIY Solar System

Primitive Shelter

Prepper links for skeptics:

National Preparedness Month

Modern Home Security

Prepper Gift List 

Why we are ALL Preppers (for skeptics) 

Backup Power Supply 
Best Prepper Retreat   

 

 
Medical:

Antibiotics

Making Penicillin

First Aid

45 uses for Alcohol 
Understanding Pandemics 
Pandemic Preparations
Prepper Sanitizer

Biological Warfare

 

Medial Masks (& what you need to know)

Best Prepper Disinfectant

 
  

Wilderness Survival:

Survival Pack (Security Patrol or Bug Out pack)

Wilderness Survival Pack (Video) 

Wilderness Survival

Universal Edibility Test 

Best Survival Knife

Alone Season 1 Pack List
Alone Season 2 Pack List
Alone Season 3 Pack List
Alone Season 4 Pack List

Alone Season 5 Pack List
 

Alone Season 6 Pack List

Alone: Season 7 Pack List 

Alone: Season 8 Pack List

Alone Season 8 Cast
AloneWinners Pack List

Alone: The Beast S1 E1
Alone: The Beast S1 E2

Alone: Season 1 - 7 Winners

Alone: Show Records

Alone Survival Plan
Naked & Afraid Survival Plan
Survive on a deserted island
Wilderness Survival - TEST

Day 100 - 1 Millionaire Remains (Alone Show)

 

Edible Wild Plants

Green briar (cat briar)

Cattails 

Dandelion

Chickweed & Hackberries

Large List of Edible Wild Plants 

Acorn Flour - Pancakes  

Survive on a Deserted Island 

5 C's of Survival 

Foraging Texas 

Best Camp Sight Selection Criteria 

Survival Fishing 

3 Odd Techniques for Primitive Fishing 

How to catch your own live bait 

How to Make Your Own Clay Pots 

Quickly Craft Sharp Stone Tools

Primitive Fire Building

Backpack Selection Criteria

How to build the Ultimate Disaster Survival Kit

Dual Purpose Items 

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Introduction;

Blog Table of Contents;

Delivering Babies

New Years Resolution 2016

Top 10 Prepper Businesses

Merry Christmas

Prepper Gift List

45 uses for Alcohol 

2020 Christmas Gift Ideas  

Political:

Tax Facts

Immigration MUST watch 

Immigration History 
False Flag

Do NOT turn the Internet over to the United Nations 

5 Things Hillary Says She Will Do To Your Rights If She Wins

How Native Americans lost this country

Enemy of a Free State

Global Climate Facts

Common Sense Gun Laws 

Declaration of Independence

US Constitution

US Corporate Taxes - TRUTH

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SOLUTION 

Immigration Depresses Wages & Costs Taxpayers Billions

Support our Right to Bear Arms:  NRA 

US Poverty from a global perspective

Immigration 

Truth about the AR 15 

Ammo Shipments to CA Illegal Soon! Please Help!

Gun Free Zone Facts

What should I do after having to defend myself?

Protecting America   

Why I avoid doing business in Gun Free Zones

US Corporate Taxes - TRUTH

Free Trade vs. Duties 

Civil War 

Texas Bullion Depository

Texas Silver Coins 

The State of Gun Control
America - SOLD

The united States 

 

Gun Confiscation - the Biden / Beto Plan

Made in the USA 

Free Trade

Coin Shortage

Immigration 

 

 

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Practice Garden

You know fresh grown food will be healthy but in today's modern life style, you don't have time for a Garden.   

Most home owners spend many hours (or $) each year on yard care.  Mowing grass, trimming hedges, watering flowers, hedges, potted plants, and when they are done, they have nothing of true value to show for it. Okay, it looks nice, but it will improve your chances of survival by 0%.

Suppose you could have some small level of preparation with minimal cost and effort?  Not a low budget garden but just a few potted plants that grow food instead of flowers or ivy.  Instead of hedge bushes, what about blue berries, fig trees, or asparagus? Perhaps grape vines growing on your fence.  Minimal extra cost or effort, if any, but the fruit of your labor is now delicious.  Having a timer to automatically drip irrigate them will make the process even easier.

Seeds are one of the lowest cost investments you can make, are excellent for Barter, and a good addition to any Prepper Plan. But you need to know how to use them as growing plants from seed can be challenging without experience.

 In doing this, there are a few key objectives you want to accomplish.

1. Grow fresh healthy food at a fraction of the cost
2. Gain valuable experience 
3. Learn what varieties of foods grow well for you in your area
4. Save Heirloom Seeds each year to maintain your seed stock to meet future needs

1) In gardening, you will find that fresh grown foods taste much better than most store bought varieties.  This is because your crops were not picked green, weeks/months earlier nor coated with chemicals & pesticides. 

2) The gardening experience is a connection with Mother Nature that brings a peace of mind while developing a valuable skill.

3) Gardening is easy, but you would not want your life to depend on your ability to learn it overnight.  Knowing what crops will grow from seed in your area without pesticides and commercial fertilizers will provide a level of survival security that nothing else will.

4) Save seeds from your heirloom garden to plant again the next year.  This way you develop your own personalized sustainable store of seeds.  

 

For $5 and a package of seeds, you are in business.

Your seeds should organically grow foods in your area that you like to eat. My recommended foods that grow well without pesticides include:  Okra, Squash, Tomatoes, Asparagus, Figs, Pomegranates,  Bantam or field corn, Turnips, pinto beans, green beans, purple hull, black eye peas and sorghum, oats and wheat for bread or animal feed.  

These seeds should be dried for a few days at room temperature and then stored in freezer bags in the refrigerator for 1 year of storage.  Figs trees are grown by cutting a small branch off of an existing tree and planting it in moist soil until roots sprout and take hold.

OK, here is how you get started.  

1. Buy one or two packages of heirloom seeds. I would start with corn and pinto beans or peas, but you pick your favorite.  Under $2 per package, seeds are one of the lowest cost Prepper purchases you can make, and will be excellent for Barter in a SHTF situation. 
   
   Plant a few of them and save the rest in a freezer bag in the freezer for long term storage.  After several years, I take them out and plant them in fields, the woods, or throw them in the creek to wash down and hopefully grow; sort of a hidden garden you might say. This may greatly improve your Wilderness Survival chances some day. Freezing or drying and preserving foods is good practice too.
2. Harvest your food and save the best looking seeds for planting next year.
3. Plant your home grown seeds and repeat the process each year.

 

You can plant them in the flower beds of your Apartment or Condo, although it is good to share the benefits with your neighbors.  Above we have tomatoes & peppers; okra, onions and tomatoes below.  Dead hedge bushes have been replaced with figs.

 

If second, third, etc. generation seeds don't grow for you, get another variety of heirloom seeds and start over.  Hybrid seeds will usually not grow second generation crops well.  Also don't grow two variety of plants as they will cross pollinate and make a third variety of potentially unreliable seeds. 

Goal:  Save your own home grown seeds, fresh each year, of foods you like to eat. 

For additional information see the following links: Blog Table of Contents

Top 10 List of Prepper info
Top Rated Prepper Handbook Posts of all time
Top Rated Prepper Website

Gardening Links
Gardening101 – Soil Basics
Green House for year-round food supply
Vegetable Planting Dates
Vegetable Days to Harvest  
Budget Garden Preparations 

Seeds for Survival
Preppers Garden
Food Shelf Life
Aquaponics  
Growing your own food from seed
Prepper Livestock series