Winter Survival

Putting Together your Winter Emergency Car Kit

Putting Together your Winter Emergency Car Kit

Between commuting to and from work, running errands, and schlepping the kids around to various activities, the average
American spends over 200 hours a year in their cars.

This is more time on the road than we spend in vacation time in a year!

5 Essential Pieces of Gear to Get You Comfortably through a Winter Power Outage

5 Essential Pieces of Gear to Get You Comfortably through a Winter Power Outage

Around 3 years ago here in New England we had a pretty serious winter ice storm that knocked my power out for around a week and in many close-by areas they were without power for 2 weeks.

From that experience I realized I was woefully unprepared for winter.

How to Make a Candle Heater

How to Make a Candle Heater

With the cold season coming to a close I wanted to share one more survival craft that you can do in order to provide some off-grid heat to a small insulated area with just a candle!

Survival Car Heater – Carbon Monoxide Testing Results

Survival Car Heater – Carbon Monoxide Testing Results

For those who are just joining me now (just to give you some background), I had written an article and created a video on how to make a survival heater for your car if you were ever stranded somewhere in the winter and required heat. Being someone who doesn’t like to give survival advice without first [...]

Testing out the Survival Stove

Testing out the Survival Stove

Last night since it was down in the mid-teens, I decided to take the little car stove I made from the How to Make a Survival Stove (Car Heater) article out for a test drive. I wanted to test how long it would take for the car to heat up to a comfortable temperature in below [...]

How to Eat a Pine Tree

How to Eat a Pine Tree

This post is a follow-up to the The Fantastic Four – 4 Essential Wild Edible Plants that May Just Save Your Life article. In it I demonstrate how to process and eat one of the core four essential survival plants: Pine. When you look at your average pine tree, rarely does one think that it has the [...]

Preparing Your Home for Winter

Preparing Your Home for Winter

Is your house ready for the winter? Better think again. With the fall equinox coming in a few days (September 22) I know it’s time to prepare my home for the coming winter. For those who aren’t aware of it, an equinox — which only occurs twice per year — is the time of the year when the day and [...]