Prepping Guides

Let me tell you about a conversation I had back in 2014 that changed how I think about preparedness. I […]

Let me be direct with you. The garden in your backyard isn’t going to save your family during a real

The first time I really understood what a pharmacy shortage looks like, it wasn’t on television. It was in a

Back in 2014, I dropped $180 on a “military-grade” EMP-proof Faraday bag from a YouTube prepper everybody was hyping. Felt

Let me be direct with you. Most people who think they’re prepared have never lost power for more than four

I almost didn’t write this one. There’s a reason. Every spring, the prepper internet floods with “X items before [date]”

Why Most Bug-In Plans Die on Day Four Let me tell you about February 2021. Texas. You probably heard the

Last spring, a guy from my church cornered me in the parking lot and asked me point-blank: “Zach, what’s it

The first real power outage of my prepping life hit us in Iowa in the fall of 2012. My wife

In the spring of 2020, I watched my neighbor—a guy who’d mocked me for years over my “doomsday pantry”—stand in