How to Make a Rudimentary Egg Incubator Building and using a chicken incubator is one of the best ways to promote a productive hatch, and it doesn’t take a lot of time, effort or material to create one. All you need is a container, light and heat to create an environment that is ideal …
How to Cure Your Own Bacon
How to Cure Your Own Bacon Learning how to cure meats is a useful skill to have during a survival situation. This is particularly true for bacon, which makes for a delicious comfort food to have on hand during a difficult and stressful time. Let’s take a look at how easy it is to prepare …
Provide Burn Pain Relief With These Home Grown Remedies
Provide Burn Pain Relief With These Home Grown Remedies There are a number of things that you can do to soothe the pain after receiving first or second degree burns. These are all natural, safe and often effective treatments that can eliminate the need to take a trip to the doctor. Some of them work …
How to Build a Fire Bed
How to Build a Fire Bed Did you know that you can have your fire and sleep on it as well? Most people are content to sleep as close to a fire as possible in order to stay warm at night. However, we all know that this doesn’t always work as effectively as we would …
How to Raise Catfish in a Barrel
How to Raise Catfish in a Barrel Catfish are a hearty species that don’t need a lot of care and maintenance in order to thrive. This is one of the reasons that they make the perfect choice for backyard fish farming. Catfish are also very meaty, nutritious and easy to prepare. Let’s take a look …
Making an ARC Welder
Making an ARC Welder Did you know you can make an AC arc welder using parts from your microwave? I used 2 transformers from 2 different microwaves, and about 50′ of 8 AWG stranded copper cable from a local hardware store. You could probably save some money by scavenging for free wire, but I …
How To Make A PVC Pump!
How To Make A PVC Pump! In this project you’ll learn how to make a customizable PVC hand pump that will create vacuum suction, pump water, or compress air. WARNING: Power tools, like a table saw, pose risks of serious injury. Adequate training and experience are required before operating. The results and claims of …
DIY Natural Mosquito Repellent From The Woods
DIY Natural Mosquito Repellent From The Woods Step by step process for making your own mosquito repellent from plants gathered from the woods. With the information here, all the ingredients could be gathered in the woods around you.
Communicating Your Wishes to Others
Communicating Your Wishes to Others One of the biggest issues to contend with during a survival situation relates to communication. Getting in touch with relatives, coordinating courses of action and simply trying to get a hold of information during a crisis during an emergency can be a formidable challenge. Let alone trying to express your …
Recipe for Making Your Own Emergency Rations
Recipe for Making Your Own Emergency Rations Here is a recipe of how to make your own emergency rations for your car, home, bug-out bag or any other place where you might need emergency food rations. Using all shelf stable ingredients, this recipe makes light-weight, high-calorie rations that last 5 years without refrigeration.