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Can I Use Plastic Bottles For Canning?-Home canning guide

16 hours ago6 views

Plastic bottles for canning Today, home canning has become more widespread than ever. Home canning is a technique used to preserve food so that it lasts longer without losing its taste and nutrition. Home canning ...

Prepping

Frozen Vacuum Sealed Meat – How Long Is Storage Life In The Freezer

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2 days ago8 views

This is a question for you as well as my own experience. I can say this, it makes a HUGE difference for meat in the freezer – using a vacuum sealer machine (e.g. FoodSaver or ...

Self-Reliance

How To Start A Fire With Wet Wood

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2 days ago7 views

Do you want to know how to start a campfire with wet wood? Wet firewood does not make it easy. But there are ways to adapt & overcome! Depending on the weather and season, you ...

Self-Reliance

The Seven Steps of Survival

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2 days ago9 views

[ This was contributed a number of years ago. There’s some great insight here with the notion for seven steps of survival ] Guest post by a MSB reader: A few decades ago I took ...

Prepping

If You Could Only Have One Knife, What’s The Best Survival Knife?

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2 days ago9 views

I’ll spoil it right away. There’s really no such thing as a best survival knife. Too many personal preferences. Rather, it’s the one that you have. In other words, it might not be so much ...

Prepping

What An Ideal Life Would Look Like

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2 days ago9 views

A commenter (Silverback68) recently posted, “I was thinking today about what my ideal life would look like compared to what my actual life is like, and what I’m actually doing to reach my ideal place ...

Self-Reliance

United States Drought Map – Updated Realtime

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2 days ago8 views

Drought is a hazard of nature. (Realtime Drought Maps are embedded below) A drought does not announce its arrival. It’s a “creeping phenomenon,”. What may first appear to be just a dry spell can only ...

Self-Reliance

How To Collect Dew Water For Survival

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2 days ago7 views

In a crisis where you have no access to rainwater or any open body of water, knowing how to collect dew water from the surroundings can spell the difference between survival and dehydration. Every survivalist should ...

Self-Reliance

Backyard Aquaculture And Its Importance

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2 days ago9 views

Today we are going to take another look at backyard aquaculture. Aquaculture has a history of thousands of years of feeding people via small self-managed systems. RELATED:Intro to Aquaponics Discussion About Backyard Aquaculture https://survivallife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/epi-2851-aquaculture-in-the-backyard.mp3 I ...

Self-Reliance

List of Firearms that will be Banned by Assault Weapons Ban

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3 days ago8 views

On March 2021, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced her latest gun ban legislation, the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021.” We’ve been tracking her attempt to pass the legislation since 2013; this page is an ...

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