How to Make Ballistic Gel
Gel testing was made famous by the FBI. They used ballistic gelatin ...
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The Best 5 States for Living Off-Grid
Updated: 12 March 2025 Taking the plunge to live “off the grid” ...
What Is the the Right Fence for Your Homestead?
In our modern urban society, having a fence around our property is ...
10 Beautiful Plants That Are Secretly Killing Your Garden
We have all seen co-workers with unruly offices where books and papers ...
Tips and Tricks for Living without Air Conditioning
Air conditioning seems to be one of those “necessities” we simply can’t ...
Best Gun for Home Defense
One of the purposes of this prepper website is to provide information ...
Living without a Refrigerator – It Can Be Done!
One of the primary scenarios many preppers prepare for is the loss ...
How to Keep Grains Edible and Fresh for Over 40 Years With Nitrogen
Editor's Note: This article was gladly contributed by one of our readers. ...
Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival
When the collapse happens and you are in survival mode, you need ...
Homemade Substitutes for Toilet Paper
When society collapses and the grocery store shelves are empty for an ...
Avoid The Lines – How to Store Fuel Long Term
A generator without gas is like a rifle without ammunition. For this ...
How to Grow Fruit All Year Round
Editor's Note: Lisa Farland is a content writer in Happy to Survive ...
Tools The Early Pioneers Used on A Daily Basis
Setting out for the frontier in the 19th century was nothing like ...
Top 9 Animals to Raise in a Post Apocalypse World
When the feces hits the celestial oscillator, our way of life is ...
The Battery That Can Power Your Home Completely Off The Grid
The power of the sun is really amazing and somehow underestimated. Here ...
How the Early Pioneers Preserved Food and What They Ate
When we think of the Wild West we often think of the ...
Gardening For The Future – Hay and Straw Bale Gardening
This is by far the simplest and easiest “no work” gardening method. You ...
The 5 Seeds That You Need to Stockpile in Your Pantry
The world is already struggling with food supply and managing crops. The ...
Six Steps To Urban Self-Reliance and Freedom
With the rising costs of food and people having less to spend, ...
Herb Farming at Home: a New Business?
When it comes to gardening or farming, our general perception leads us ...
Free Heating – How To Build a Solar Heater Using Aluminum Cans
Have you ever thought of how much you actually spend on heating ...
Old School Common Sense Survival Tricks
by Pat Bellew I always find it interesting that so many of ...
Dipping Candles the Old-Fashioned Way
Candles were a common source of light in many colonial and pioneering ...
15 Things That You Can Forage For In Winter
You probably have long-term supplies stored in a safe place, and you ...
5 Chemistry Experiments For Preppers
Chemistry is arguably the most practical of all the science subjects. Learning ...
How To Heat Your Home Without Electricity
Everything nowadays depends on electricity, and most people feel lost and powerless ...
Making Butter at Home, Like Our Grandparents
The making of butter goes back at least 4,000 years, with the ...
12 Woodworking Projects for Preppers and Homesteaders
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be ...
15 Lost Survival Tips From The Cowboys Who Wandered The West – With Illustrations
This is an awesome article that I wrote for Survivopedia. And although ...
How to Make Your Own Apple Sugar
Today we find added sugar in almost anything that we eat or ...
