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Sprouting 101: From Benefits to Growing Tips
Any seasoned person that prepares knows that loading up on a supply of nutritious and healthy food is an essential aspect of survival, whether riding out a longer power outage or getting snowed in for several days or weeks (it happened in the Pennsylvania/New York area last year). While nonperishable...
Giving the Gift of Preparedness & Self-Reliance
If you have a few folks into preparedness or that might need a nudge to be a bit more self-reliant, let us simplify your holiday shopping list with these 5 ideas. #1: Patriot Seeds Gift Set: $108.75Now: not available This kit includes 21 varieties of Patriot Seeds in our best-selling Seed...
Survival Lessons from Squanto & the Pilgrims
As we near the end of November, the excitement and preparations for Thanksgiving are kicking into high gear. Who doesn’t enjoy sitting down around the table with loved ones and indulging in turkey, stuffing, gravy, and green beans? It’s the perfect time to express gratitude, engage in culinary traditions, and...
Money Prepping: How to Protect Yourself from Fiat Currency Disasters
Let’s start with a little bit of history before we tie this all together with today and something to prepare for. Almost a half-century ago now, the American dollar was on the gold standard. This meant that our currency was backed by a fixed asset—gold. This system provided a self-regulating...
What’s Sheepdog Preparedness? A Deep Look
THOUGHTS ON SHEEPDOG PREPAREDNESS There’s a philosophy that gets talked about a lot in the preparedness community called the “sheepdog approach.” It comes from an analogy that describes humans as either sheep, wolves or sheepdogs. To give you a brief overview, I’ve broken down the analogy into its parts. The...
Personal Hardship Preparedness
Personal Hardship Preparedness Whenever we ask people “what” they’re preparing for, the responses tend to be the scarier things. Natural disasters like hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes. Acts of war or terror. Complete economic collapse. Preparing for these things certainly makes them scarier. Our preparedness advisors are well-versed in helping you...
Survival Fishing Part 3: Reading the Water
Survival Fishing Part 3: Reading the Water Welcome to our third installment of My Patriot Supply’s survival fishing series. Today, we are going to discuss a very particular and valuable skill. It’s called “reading the water.” Once you’ve found a piece of water to fish, you need to be able...
A History of Hard Work – The Truth Behind Our Family Trees
As a preparedness advisor, it’s my life’s calling to talk to people about preparedness and self-reliance. When I talk to folks like you, I’m often curious about where you got your start with preparedness. The answer I get most often? It all started with parents or grandparents. These are the types...
Most-Read Preparedness Stories of 2018
While we’re only halfway through 2018, this volatile year has already seen significant developments that seriously affect folks like us who prepare. #1: FEMA Began on a Low Note – And Kept Repeating It The year started out with a bold proclamation from FEMA: “FEMA is broke. The system is...
Part 2: Survival Fishing Tactics and Techniques
Part 2: Tactics and Techniques In our first installment on survival fishing, we covered the basics. We briefly discussed: The benefits of learning the skill of fishing How to get started in learning Tactics and techniques Types of fish You can read that article by clicking here. Today, we’ll expand...
2 Keys to Summer Fun: How to Prepare
2 Keys to Summer Fun: How to Prepare Each Memorial Day, we honor our fallen heroes. This national holiday is also the start of the summer travel season. With that in mind, we thought we’d share a few brief tips with you all. If you're planning on getting away for...
Hook, Line and Survival – Learning the Skill of Fishing
Hook, Line and Survival – Learning the Skill of Fishing Part 1: Getting Started If you were born of the Baby Boomer generation or earlier, chances are good that you have some familiarity with hunting, fishing or both. Less so for current generations. In 1980, the percentage of Americans who...
