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You can die in:

3 seconds without security;
3 minutes without air;
3 hours without shelter (in hostile weather);
3 days without water &
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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The Best Gun

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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
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Inexpensive First Gun
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What is a Prepper?

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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

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Lessons Learned - Hurricanes

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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
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Green House for year-round food supply
Vegeta ble Planting Dates
Vegetable Days to Harvest

Budget Garden Preparations

Seeds for Survival
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Growing your own food from seed

Practice Garden

Fall Garden

Best Garden Investment

Best Prepper Vegetable

Hidden Garden

Prepper Livestock series

Chickens

Goats

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Rabbits

Best Prepper Dog

Preppers Horse

Survival Fishing
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Noodling

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Backing Soda vs. Yeast

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Best Foods to Store

Smoked Brisket Recipe

Me Maw’s Goulash
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Sustainable Meal Planning - Breakfast
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Understand Best By Dates

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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

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Riot & Looting Preparations

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Surviving an Asteroid Impact

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Survi ve a 2 week power out age

Power Outage Preps

Protecting America

Pandemic Preparations

The End of Free America
The Government and You
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Could you survive this?

Hurricanes

Survive on a Deserted Island

Civil War

Emergency Essentials Disaster Preparations

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Over Population

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The Best Gun

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Urban Survival Perspective

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Gun Free Zone Facts

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Country Home Security Plan

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Bear Attacks

Bear: Gun vs. Pepper spray

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Modern Home Security

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Rechargeable Batteries

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Active Shooter

Top 10 AR-15s

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Best Survival Knife

FBI Ammo

Marines Rifle

Home Defense Preparation

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22 LR for Defense

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S&W Snub Nose

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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

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National Preparedness Month

Modern Home Security

Prepper Gift List

Why we are ALL Preppers (for skeptics)

Backup Power Supply
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Making Penicillin

First Aid

45 uses for Alcohol
Understanding Pandemics
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Prepper Sanitizer

Biological Warfare

Medial Masks (& what you need to know)

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Wilderness Survival:

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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

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How to catch your own live bait

How to Make Your Own Clay Pots

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US Poverty from a global persp ective

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Gun Free Zone Facts

What should I do after having to defend myself?

Protecting America

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US Corporate Taxes - TRUTH

Free Trade vs. Duties

Civil War

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Texas Silver Coins

The State of Gun Control
America - SOLD

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Gun Confiscation - the Biden / Beto Plan

Made in the USA

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You can turn your living area and surroundings into a Secret Garden by planting edible perennials around your house, apartment, condo, park, trails, woods, creeks, ponds and any public access area.

Start by looking at your nearby area for garden beds, hedges, planters, etc. to see what you can plant close by. Then look at a Satellite Map of your area to identify places like trails, waterways, parks, etc. that you can legally get access to.

Around your area, try and plant some of the following:

Fruit & Nut trees; Figs & native pecans are good, but any other low maintenance tree that produces food each year without humans action necessary. Fig trees can be grown from cuttings, or cutting a finger size limb off of a regional variety that performs well and putting it in moist soil.
Asparagus is a great vegetable that produce early spring food, and continues to produce for several months, as long as it is not over harvested. It resembles a flower bed or hedge plant that most people would not recognize and can be grown most anywhere. Plant roots are available to purchase for a few bucks, or Heirloom Seeds or the Mary Washington variety can be planted and grown, but may take more care to get them going.
Black berries, blue berries, muscadines, wild plums, and persimmons are all good to plant most anywhere.
Jerusalem Artichokes and Sweet Potatoes are a good root vegetable that will be largely unnoticeable by others and can be grown most any place.
Spinach is a good cool weather plant that will be largely unnoticeable by others and can be grown most any place.

If necessary, grow some in pots inside, on your patio or porch to get them started.

Once you know what grows well, begin transplanting some to surrounding areas. Plant things that will blend in with the surroundings, and look similar to other vegetation in the area. For example, if a hedge bush dies, replace it with a tea or blue berry bush. Plant them on holidays, when the apartment staff is off, &/or early in the morning when few are awake.

Look for places that are already dirt surfaces like flower beds, and transplant a single plant there, with a label, or something to show this was intentionally planted, so the Gardner or lawn care people will not destroy them. Once you get one plant growing successfully, add more.

In nearby ponds and along creeks, you want to plant Cat Tails and Arrowhead, which are wild edible plants.

Over time, you can develop a large collection of edible plants. In addition, if there is a park near by, feed the ducks and pigeons there. They would be a great source of emergency food if ever needed.

Also good to identify the locations of any places that might have food or supplies for Salvaging if necessary. For example a grocery store distribution warehouse is a good idea. Keep old paper phone books and maps to use if the internet is down like in a power outage.

We have a number of gardening links below and in our Table of Contents that you should also visit.

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