Living a Prepared Life Carries Risks: Keep From Becoming the Prey!

Written by Guest Contributor on The Prepper Journal.

If you have made the choice to live a survivalist or prepper lifestyle, you did it knowing you were making a choice that included some degree of risk. The only question would be what form the risk would eventually take. For most of these resourceful men and women, the risk actually comes from a variety […]

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Urban Survival Skills That Will Keep You Alive

Written by Pat Henry on The Prepper Journal.

When the subject of Survival comes up in conversation, what do you think of? I am sure context plays a big part in the answer to that question, but for me personally it used to always conjure up the shipwrecked on a deserted island idea of survival. It was that or the lone hiker scenario […]

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My Garlic Fell Over – How To Fix Drooping Garlic Plants

By Amy Grant Garlic is a plant that requires some patience. It takes around 240 days to mature and it’s worth every second. In our household there really is no such thing as too much garlic! During the course of those 240 days, any number of pests, diseases and weather conditions can affect the garlic crop. One such crisis occurs when garlic is falling over. So, how to fix drooping garlic? Read on to learn more. Help, My Garlic Fell Over! First thing is first. I’m stating the obvious for most garlic growers, but here goes. When garlic is reaching maturation, the leaves begin to sag and brown. You end up with garlic plants drooping. If you do a quick math calculation to figure out how many months it has been since you planted the garlic, you may just realize that it’s nearing harvest time. If you are still in

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Seedling Bird Protection: How To Keep Birds From Eating Seedlings

By Kristi Waterworth Growing a vegetable garden is about more than sticking some seeds in the ground and eating whatever springs up. Unfortunately, no matter how hard you worked on that garden, there’s always someone waiting to help themselves to your bounty. Birds can bring a lot of color to the drab winter, but when spring comes, they may turn around and become serious garden pests. Birds are especially notorious party crashers, and often eat seedlings as they pop up from the soil. Seedling bird protection can be frustrating, but you’ve got several options when it comes to protecting garden seeds from birds. How to Protect Seedlings from Birds Gardeners have devised a number of ways to keep birds from eating seedlings, ranging from the complicated to the impractical. Although you can pick up tools like artificial owls and bird scare items at your hardware store, these tricks lose their

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Indian Pink Information: How To Grow Indian Pink Wildflowers

By Mary H. Dyer, Master Naturalist and Master Gardener Indian pink wildflowers (Spigelia marilandica) are found across most areas of the southeastern United States, as far north as New Jersey and as far west as Texas. This stunning native plant is threatened in many areas, primarily due to indiscriminate harvesting by overzealous gardeners. Spigelia Indian pink is easy to grow, but if you have a hankering for growing Indian pink plants, be a good sport and leave Indian pink wildflowers in their natural environment. Instead, purchase the plant from a greenhouse or nursery that specializes in native plants or wildflowers. Read on for more Indian pink information. Spigelia Indian Pink Information Indian pink is a clump-forming perennial that reaches mature heights of 12 to 18 inches. The emerald-green foliage provides delightful contrast to the vivid red flowers, which appear in late spring and early summer. The flared, tube-shaped flowers, highly attractive

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Feature Friday: Freckles Chick

I'm back today with another Feature Friday for you, meet Freckles Chick, a very humorous blogger from Colorado, who bought a fixer upper house with her hubby in 2007 and they've been renovating and fixing up since then. In the meantime, she's had a baby girl and that has changed everything. Come along for a tour of their really cute home!

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Should You Consider a Tetanus Shot as Part of Your SHTF Preparedness?

Have you ever thought of certain vaccines as a way to prepare for an uncertain future? One reader asked if a tetanus shot might be a good choice for such a scenario. I asked Dr. Joe Alton, known to many Read More

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