Year by year
The archive
Every page on the site, in one list.
Sections Wild ediblesFood storageAt home when the grid is downOutdoorsAwarenessMoney and preparedness
Every page on the site in one list, newest first, with its section beside it.
The plant pages are among the oldest: cattail, acorns, pine and sumac. Later years brought longer pieces, on sanitation once the toilets stop flushing, on a year spent living out of a car in Los Angeles, and on getting an amateur radio license. Quantities, doses and warnings follow current advice from bodies such as the USDA and the CDC.
To browse by subject, pick one of the six sections, such as Food storage or Wild edibles. Otherwise read down the list.
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2012
- Clothes washing in a grid-down world: the two-bucket kit
- Building a debris hut: a leaf shelter that works like a sleeping bag
- Wild edibles: how to identify and eat field garlic
- How to make homemade yeast water for bread
- How to make a Kydex holster or sheath with a foam press
- How to make pemmican, the original trail ration
- How to make a homemade water filter from two buckets
2011
- A year under siege: one survivor's account of urban collapse
- Economic redundancy: two incomes are one, and one is none
- Survival sanitation: disposing of garbage when collection stops
- The top 10 most influential survival and preparedness blogs of 2011
- Dew collection: wiping drinking water off a morning field
- Survival sanitation: how to deal with human waste when the toilets stop
- How to eat common milkweed, season by season
- Making chlorine solution for emergency drinking water
- Wild edibles: how to find and eat Japanese knotweed
- The flashlight as a personal safety tool
2010
- The Slatt's rescue belt: 100 feet of paracord you can wear
- The survivalist's bucket list: skills worth learning before you need them
- How to make fresh cheese from powdered milk
- The military Modular Sleep System: layers, ratings and spotting a fake
- How to make pinole, the parched-corn trail flour
- Where There Is No Doctor and Where There Is No Dentist: free to download
- How to make powdered eggs, and why the store-bought kind is safer
- Wild edibles: the daylily, a year-round food plant
- How to choose a survival knife
- How to eat dandelion flowers: pickled buds and fritters
- Dandelion greens, the first wild food of spring
- How to make a candle heater from clay pots, and what it can really do
- How to eat a pine tree: nuts, needle tea, pollen and inner bark
- Homemade firewood: rolling logs from old newspaper
- How to turn nonfat powdered milk into whole milk
- How to build a self-sufficient cabin for under $4,000
- How to make a paracord bracelet, step by step
- The rocket stove: a full meal from a handful of sticks
- Homemade lamps from everyday objects: a tuna-can oil lamp and a grease candle
2009
- How to eat cattail: digging the rhizomes and making cattail flour
- The fantastic four: grass, oak, pine and cattail
- How to make acorn flour, from gathering to leaching to drying
- The color code of awareness: white, yellow, orange and red
- Pre-assault indicators: the warning signs before a confrontation turns physical
- How to make sumac lemonade from staghorn or smooth sumac
- How to make a survival stove, and how to keep warm in a stranded car
- How to put together a survival kit in three tiers