What you eat can relieve your asthma symptoms or lessen flare-ups. Personal experiences and scientific research studies demonstrate that what you eat has major impacts on how well asthma is controlled. A healthy diet can make you feel better, in … Continue reading
In the midst of a disaster, be it natural or man made, there may come a time when a family member or neighbor will need medical attention. Are you prepared for this? What if the person needs stitches? Do you … Continue reading
In a long-lived emergency, our food stores can quickly be depleted. If this occurs, we must rely on our knowledge of native food sources growing wild in our area. One such wild edible is found in great abundance in many parts … Continue reading
Good Day, fellow Herbalists, nature-lovers, preppers, and followers of the Naturopathic path! Today’s topic of discussion in this article is how to plan your herb-gathering excursions before the season has arrived. Although it is a relatively simple task, your organization, … Continue reading
Being out in the wilderness without any sense of direction, lost without a compass, and no clue which way to go is an extremely frightening scenario. This situation can be remedied by having a basic knowledge of the outdoors, and … Continue reading
No matter how thoroughly you prepare, there is always a possibility of running out of supplies, and when you run short on food, things can go south pretty damn quickly. It probably won’t happen bugging in at home, but what happens … Continue reading
The ORAC values of the following spices-herbs-foods are rated very high (apparently healthier) and are worth considering in your diet for your overall health and well-being. ORAC is an abbreviation for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity and was developed by the … Continue reading
At some point in your prepping journey you will need to think about Security and for many of us, these are the first thoughts that trigger an initial investigation into the world of prepping. Security in the context of prepping, … Continue reading
As recently as 100 years ago, the most important site consideration for homesteaders and villages was whether plenty of good water was within easy reach. When electric power lines and drilled water wells reached rural areas, however, close proximity to … Continue reading
There has been a lot of spirited discussion in the comments this week so I thought I would try to throw another log on the fire and see what debate this article would generate. There seem to be two sides … Continue reading
Prepping as a senior citizen presents its own unique challenges and circumstances that may necessarily need to be addressed in a different way from person to person. Each of us should have some members of our family who could be … Continue reading
There is so much advice on the internet on how to get started on preps for the newly awakened prepper, that it can become overwhelming. Much of the advice is to go out and buy large amounts of food. However, … Continue reading
Before we get into a discussion about why you should eat more greens, it is important to define just what greens really are. Things like chard, lettuce, mustard, parsley, spinach, beet greens, arugula, endive, baby greens, beet greens and collards … Continue reading