Written by Pat Henry on The Prepper Journal.
Back when I started getting into this lifestyle now known as prepping, I had a million problems I was trying to solve. I imagine some of you feel the same way if you are beginning. If you are paying attention and are at least partially grounded in reality, you can see the fragility of society. […]
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“Recently I finished the book “The Martian” by Andy Weir. In it, a man named Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his fellow crew mates escape a disastrous storm in which they believe him to be dead. I don’t want to ruin the story for you, but that’s the basic idea. The rest of the book (and soon to be movie) takes you through his experiences surviving on the red planet.
Yes, this is a cheat. But you do need to bathe with actual water on occasion. If you don’t have very much fresh water, you don’t want to waste it bathing. If you’re going to bathe in local waters, make sure that you use all-natural products that won’t damage the environment or contaminate it so that it can’t be used as a future source of drinking water if circumstances become dire.
This is probably one of the most important aspects of hygiene, especially if SHTF because dentists may be few and far between. A toothache is the last thing you need and if one abscesses, it can literally kill you if the infection gets into your bloodstream. Therefore, even if you don’t have water, you still need to care for your teeth.
Are you having 
I know that this is a point of contention for some, but the entire time I was growing up, our chickens roamed the yard during the day and we fed them by tossing the feed out in handfuls onto the ground. It kept them busy and it was a more natural way for them to eat. If you can do that for them on a full-time basis, then great. If not, try to let them out for a bit in the evenings. When dark settles, they’ll head back to the coop to roost for the night.
The happiest hen in the world won’t lay many eggs if she isn’t getting the nutrition, water or sunshine that she needs in order to lay. Give her plenty of good-quality feed as well as oyster shells or egg shells to peck at. Make sure your girls have plenty of CLEAN water, readily available at all times. Hens also need 12-14 hours of sunlight per day in order to lay well. That may mean that you need to give them a light for a few hours in the winter time.
One of the first tips for finding foods in the desert for survival that you’ll be happy to hear is that all cactus fruits are edible.
These are plentiful in the desert and can grow to be 45 feet tall and live to be 200+ years old!
This little cactus looks like scrubby shrubs and grow to be about 2 feet tall.
The seeds of this plant are extremely nutritious and provide good short-term energy.
Agave plants look sort of like aloe and vary in color from almost blue to bright or dark green.
There are actually two varieties of the pinyon pine and they look like a combination of a Christmas-type pine tree and a pine tree that grows in a bushy shape.
Mesquite trees produce pods that look sort of like beans.
Hikers hate these prickly plants but if you’re trying to survive, chollas are your friend.
These bushy plants produce little orange berries that, though small and seedy, will provide nutrition though you’ll need a lot of them to get full.
Yucca plants are made of many spiky leaves that fan into a round plant and they grow fruit in the summer time that’s great grilled or can be eaten raw.
Ever since President Obama took office, he has made it clear that one of his goals is to disarm the American public. Like most progressive liberals, he is apparently scared of an armed citizenry and what they can do. As all conservatives know, the whole gun control issue is about controlling the population, not really about guns. But as long as we have guns, their ability to control us is limited.
Even more troubling than that, it appears clear that government instigators have been behind at least some of the actions which they are using to push for greater gun control. Even without any evidence of things going on in the background, we can see from Obama’s speeches that he is helping to rile up violence in every one of the riots that have been instigated because of a 
Why would Obama go after veterans? That’s obvious. If there is ever a need for a revolution, those veterans would become the backbone of the citizen’s army. So, by denying them their rights, the government is reducing our ability to control them.