Category: Prepping Skills

Create a Mini-Solar Heater With Plastic Bottles and a Sun Shade

Create a Mini-Solar Heater With Plastic Bottles and a Sun Shade You can create a mini-solar heater that is powerful enough to heat a bottle of water with some plastic bottles and a reflective vehicle sun shade.   This is an excellent way to have some hot water available for re-hydrating foods or uses that …

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How Newspaper Can Enhance Productivity of Your Garden

How Newspaper Can Enhance Productivity of Your Garden One of the best ways to make your garden more productive and easier to manage is to add some newspaper before you start planting.  Chances are that you will be scrambling for every scrap of used newspaper that you can find after you read about how beneficial …

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How To Make An Off-The-Grid Tealight Slow Cooker

How To Make An Off-The-Grid Tealight Slow Cooker   Slow cooking is an art form that has been around for eons, and there are a lot of ways to get the job done.  However, many methods are not all that efficient and require a lot of fuel to keep the heat on for hours at …

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How to Make a Cheap and Effective Live Rabbit Trap

How to Make a Cheap and Effective Live Rabbit Trap   A box rabbit trap is probably the easiest and most humane way to hunt and trap rabbits.  Shooting them requires a lot of time and skill, snare traps can be tricky and difficult to set, and most people don’t have enough land to make …

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Check Out This Hunting and Fishing Spear! Here’s the DIY.

Check Out This Hunting and Fishing Spear!  Here’s the DIY. Hunting spear designs can get pretty complicated, especially when creative individuals start forging their own tips or making customized handles.  The reality is that rudimentary spears can be just as effective and a heck of a lot easier to build.  Let’s take a look at …

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DIY Simple but Very Effective Hiking Gaiters

DIY Simple but Very Effective Hiking Gaiters Hiking gaiters are wraps that attach to pant legs around the shins and ankles in order to keep these areas clean and dry.  These are ideal for going over tall, wet grass, deep puddles, marshy areas or through snow.  They can help to minimize irritation due to moisture, …

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Delicious, Easy and Healthy Nut Butter Recipe

Delicious, Easy and Healthy Nut Butter Recipe Nut butter recipes are both very easy to make, don’t require a lot of ingredients and can provide a sweet source of condensed nutrition.  However, there are also some important things to think about when it comes to whipping up a batch at home.  Take a look at …

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How to Make Ant Bait Traps With Prescription Bottle Caps

How to Make Ant Bait Traps With Prescription Bottle Caps Prescription bottle caps are the perfect size and design for improvised ant bait traps.  All you need to do is make a couple of modifications, use the right bait and place them in the right location.  Take a look at the following steps and see …

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Use These Biodegradable Seed Starters to Prep Your Garden

Use These Biodegradable Seed Starters to Prep Your Garden You can make your own seed starters from items that you have laying around your home, save money and help to eliminate waste at the same time.  Take a look at the examples below, and see how easy it is to turn ordinary waste into productive …

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Important Springtime Fishing Tips to Consider

Important Springtime Fishing Tips to Consider Fishing in the early to late spring is very different than in the warmer months.  Fish are just starting to become more active as they emerge from their wintertime slumber, and there will be days when they are more hungry than others.  Let’s take a look at some tips …

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