Herbs and Spices in Your Food Storage Plan

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We've all heard the tales of someone somewhere being snowed in a cabin in the mountains and having only a sack of beans to survive on. And then of getting so tired of eating those beans day in and day out that drastic measures were taken to flavor the beans. And the seasonings they used that stuck in my mind were shoe leather and wallpaper paste. My husband has an uncle somewhere along the line that purportedly experienced one of those nothing-but-beans-to-eat-type winters.

It has never sounded like much fun to me.

If I'm eating a lot of beans, and our plan does involve at least a few beans, I've got to have a wide variety of seasonings for them. You can never have too much in the way of herbs and spices, right?

Modern Survival – Being a Prepper in 2021

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The modern survivalist takes advantage of present-day technology for life when/if the grid goes down.

by Aden Tate

We are living in the modern world where technology both simplifies and complicates life. In a SHTF situation, will we have to revert to primitive survival or can we still rely on some of modern technology? Let’s look at prepping from the view of modern survival.

What does modern survival even look like?

To answer that question, we first have to look at what the opposite – primitive survival – looks like. Once we do that, we can begin to better understand just how we go about being a successful modern survivalist, modern day Minute Man, etc.

Harvesting wild medicinal plants for profit

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by Bob Rodgers

A wide variety of native herbs and medicinal plants flourish across North America, and there is a ready market for many of these wild botanicals. A few are easily found and just as easy to harvest, including mayapple, goldenseal, bloodroot, black cohosh, and common boneset.

Harvest seasons vary, with mayapple ready to dig as early as June, black cohosh as late as November. But because of the way the plants grow, it may be easier to identify a good stand earlier in the season and mark the location for later harvest. Bloodroot should be located and marked early because the plant tops almost always die back before the best time to dig the roots.

A medicinal plant and herb field guide can help you identify plants in the field. Good guides are available in bookstores and at most public libraries. A variety of sites on the web may also help you with plant identification.

The first plant to consider is goldenseal, if only because it is the most golden as far as selling price goes. Yes, wild ginseng is worth considerably more. But years of heavy harvest have made it difficult to find good stands and have also resulted in ever-tighter restrictions on when and where it may be dug and sold.

10 Ways to Clean Drinking Water After Disaster

How to Prepare for Hyperinflation

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By Tom Marlowe

Over the years, and especially recently, there’s probably a word you have heard bandied about in regards to the economy that is whispered with dread, menace and the hushed, terrified awe of the boogeyman: Hyperinflation.

Often talked about, rarely codified, and even more rarely explained in terms that everyday people can relate to, hyperinflation seems to be a topic that is the province of financial talking heads and would-be economic theorists.

But I have some bad news for you, folks. Hyperinflation is real, entirely too real, and I am telling you right now, up front, you have good reason to be scared out of your wits by it.