I love helping to support small family businesses and I love coffee so when a friend told me about Brown & Jenkins, a small, family owned coffee roaster in Vermont I was more than intrigued. The more I learned about how their process is organic and they have an eye towards sustainability I became a fan. And then I found out that they are fans of the prepper movement, I … [Read more...] about How To Store Coffee Plus a Giveaway *closed*!
Sunday Skill: Cotton Ball Fire Starters
Good morning everyone! Today's Sunday Skill will take you more time to gather the 3 ingredients than it will to make your fire starter. Super simple but a great thing to show the kids now that they know how to light a match and you'll have some wonderful fire starters for camping or to carry in your bug out bag in the end. Cotton ball fire starters burn for quite a bit of … [Read more...] about Sunday Skill: Cotton Ball Fire Starters
Prepping Projects For Thanksgiving Weekend
Pinterest has been bursting with great ideas for prepping over this holiday weekend. Here are some of my favorite ideas for Thanksgiving weekend prepping projects. Dehydrate Pumpkins We've been talking for several weeks now about how this is the time of year to put up pumpkins. Here are some great directions on how to dehydrate pumpkin: How to Can Cranberries I love … [Read more...] about Prepping Projects For Thanksgiving Weekend
How to Dehydrate Apples
Dehydrating food is a skill that all preppers should master and dehydrated apples are probably the easiest food to learn with. But I would be seriously remiss in letting anyone think that I store dehydrated apples as long term food storage in this house. Truth is, the second my kids see this bag on the counter they will be gone. The work involved used to make the fact that … [Read more...] about How to Dehydrate Apples
Can Your Children Light A Match? Todays Sunday Skill
Last week I wanted to light a sugar cookie candle in the living room. I reached for the disposable candle lighter and it was out of butane. No biggie, I sent the 16 year old downstairs for one of the many boxes of matches stored and asked him to do it for me while I was doing something else. Then I heard something that sent me reeling into a mom failure mode: "Mom, how do you … [Read more...] about Can Your Children Light A Match? Todays Sunday Skill