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​Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. Families may not be together and you may not have access to cell phones, gas stations, grocery stores or some of the other things that you are used to having every day. By taking a few simple steps now, each of us can make sure we are better prepared for the next emergency or disaster.


While each household is unique — young children, disabilities, pets,...

Why buy Non-GMO Food?
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Impacts on bees, birds and butterflies
Research is continuing into the impact that Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have had on frogs, bees, butterflies, birds and microorganisms that live in soil and water. Monarch butterfly populations have decreased by fifty percent, and experts are exploring whether GMOs have contributed to their shrinking habitats. Colony collapse...

​Your home is your castle, and it should be the place you feel the safest. However, there are always going to be those people that wouldn’t mind taking what you have. Home invasions involve a robbery where you/witnesses are present during the crime.  

Here are a 7 tips that might help you avoid becoming a victim.

1. Lock your doors and windows. I know, common sense, but surprisingly many home...

The recent and ongoing water crisis in Flint, MI, has left many people across the nation wondering if the water coming out of their home taps is actually not so safe after all. Flint’s water problems began when the city began diverting water from the heavily polluted Flint River into its system without taking the proper precautions to prevent pipe erosion. Much of the lead in the water came from...

2015 was a particularly busy year for tornado activity in the United States. In fact -- with 1,285 reports and 1,177 confirmed -- it was the busiest of the last 4 years. While peak season is normally March to June, a particularly strong El Nino contributed to significant tornadic activity later in the year; there were 93 tornado reports in the month of December alone! This year has seen lower...

One aspect of prepping that gets quite a bit of mention (but few articles or posts) is prepping for the whole family.

Many preppers prepare for themselves and their children, but not many are prepping for extended family, elderly parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and pets.

This oversight can spell disaster in a major catastrophic event. In light of this, I decided to post a short article on a...

Disaster can strike at any time and without warning, whether the disaster is natural or man-made. How prepared are you in the event of an emergency? Ask any emergency responder, and he or she will tell you there is a strong chance that our public agencies and programs will be overwhelmed in the event of a catastrophe. You should be prepared to be on your own without assistance for at least three...

Who turned out all the lights? Maybe a storm is raging outside and a power line is down in your neighborhood, or perhaps a transformer was overloaded at your local power station. There are many complex components that make up the power grid, and like any complex system, there are many reasons that can cause a failure. Often, the parts that make up the grid are susceptible to lightning strikes,...

Imagine living a day, a week or even longer without safe drinking water. Knowing how to clean water so it won’t make you sick is a survival skill that should be at the top of your list. 


One trick to scoring clean water is not to drink down stream from others. But the problem is that everyone is downstream from something(human waste, dead moose carcass… you get the idea). Water is essential to...