Maintaining a self sufficient lifestyle relies on a lot of things beyond planting a garden and keeping an emergency stockpile of preparedness goods. For a lot of people, staying off-the-grid is a major function of their independently sustained households. By staying disconnected from major power sources, water lines, etc. these people must find ways to [...]
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Staying Self Sufficient in Winter
January 17th, 2012 
admin Self sufficiency is important to many people who choose to provide for themselves. This extends to many areas of their lives, including sustenance, electricity and a whole host of other basic tools needed to survive. However, many people who keep a self sufficient home pick and choose which areas of their lives will be as [...]
Hospital Installs Major Emergency Preparedness Ward
December 7th, 2011 admin Sometimes emergency preparedness isn’t about the snow storms, hurricanes or other natural disasters that we usually discuss in this blog. As always, these are huge factors in the preparedness world, but they also play into other problems that quickly spread destruction over large areas. For instance, biothreats like chemical spills, infectious diseases and other fast-moving [...]
Isle of Wight Moves Towards Self Suffiency
December 2nd, 2011 admin Self sufficient living is a major topic of this blog for many reasons. First and foremost, the ability to make your life self sufficient has wide ranging effects on your ability to be self reliant. When you don’t have to worry about water lines bursting, power lines falling and other disasters, you can always be [...]
US Fails in Biothreat Preparedness
October 19th, 2011 admin Natural disasters are a huge portion of the preparedness that we all need to survive in the face of disasters. Since we never know when a huge storm may hit our areas, having emergency kits and emergency preparedness items readily available is essential to ensuring our overall safety. However, one area of disaster preparedness often [...]
Fall Gardening Tips
October 12th, 2011 admin It’s a safe assumption to think that many people consider the fall a time when you simply don’t garden. This is primarily due to the temperature dropping as the fall leads into winter. Although gardening in the fall is different than doing so in the spring and summer, it is still possible and gives you [...]
Preparedness Report Shows Growth
September 29th, 2011 admin The most important topic is this blog is a toss-up between self sufficiency and preparedness. However different these two subjects may seem, they are really closely related in the grand scheme of things. Consider self sufficiency as the ability for a person to not be reliant on any other persons for goods or services. Preparedness [...]
Achieving Self Sufficiency In Your Home
September 15th, 2011 admin Self sufficiency is becoming a major boon for homeowners and those trying to sell their home in rough real estate markets brought on by financial troubles in the world as of late. Having a number of self sufficient tools in place can make your family more reliant and/or more energy efficient in the long run, [...]
National Preparedness Month Tips
September 12th, 2011 admin There have been a lot of reasons for people to get more familiar with emergency preparedness this year. With the recent storms that have caused havoc in various areas of the country to the minor earthquakes that shook unprepared parts of the United States, this month is the perfect time for National Preparedness Month. Here [...]
Cooking Without Electricity
August 31st, 2011 admin The story of the moment is the destruction that Irene caused – not your friend Irene – but the hurricane-turned-tropical storm that has devastated a number of areas along the Eastern coast. At the moment I’m writing this, there are still thousands and thousands of people struggling without power in their homes, three days after [...]
