by Steve Nubie | January 19, 2019 | Homesteading, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills, Tools | 0 Comments

It’s Time to Get Those Antiques Off the Walls and Back into Our Hands Believe it or not, there was a time with no power tools.  Everything was done by hand and the only power was muscle and intelligent leverage.  It was the only way to get things done at a...

by Steve Nubie | January 11, 2019 | Food, Homesteading, Preppers, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills | 0 Comments

It’s Not Just for Beef Anymore.  Here’s How to Explore the Jerky World. It’s hard to say where and when jerky originated.  We’ve been drying food for millennia in the sun, the wind and over variations on a fire.  One idea attributes the actual word...

by Steve Nubie | December 24, 2018 | Emergencies, Food, Food and Shelter, Hacks, Preppers, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills | 0 Comments

Hobos Mastered the Craft of Tin Can Cookery and You Can Too. It’s one thing to forage in the wilderness for wild foods, but cooking them in a way we're accustomed to can be a challenge.  Fortunately, there are some old...

by Steve Nubie | December 24, 2018 | Food, Food and Shelter, Homesteading, Steve Nubie | 0 Comments

Perhaps the Oldest Food Preservation Technique and One That We Should Understand as Another Step Towards Self-Reliance. It’s impossible to establish how food dehydration emerged as a food preservation process but it’s a good bet we have the sun to thank for it. ...

by Steve Nubie | December 12, 2018 | Emergencies, Fire, Food and Shelter, Steve Nubie, Survival, Survival Skills, Wilderness, Winter | 0 Comments

A Shelter can be Critical to Wilderness Survival.  But What Can You do When Time Isn’t on Your Side? Critical needs for effective winter survival make a short list.  Fire, water, food and shelter.  While fire and water may be the most important, shelter...

by Steve Nubie | December 3, 2018 | Emergencies, Fire, Food and Shelter, Hacks, Steve Nubie, Survival, Winter | 0 Comments

Any Temperature Below Freezing in the Wilderness Can be Life Threatening. Here’s How to Survive When the Odds are Against You. Fire and water don’t mix. That’s what makes building any fire on snow and ice so difficult. Any fire in the vicinity of snow covered or...

by Steve Nubie | November 26, 2018 | Food, Food and Shelter, Homesteading, Steve Nubie | 0 Comments

Smoke Cooking is an Ancient Food Preservation Method but Today It’s All About Flavor. The first foods to be successfully smoked were probably the result of a happy accident over a smoldering fire.  In ancient times food never went to waste even if it looked burnt and...

by Steve Nubie | November 20, 2018 | Communication, Emergencies, Steve Nubie, Survival Skills, Tech | 1 Comment

If the grid crashes there are more ways to be left in the dark than you think. We hear it all the time.  “Don’t worry about the Internet if the grid goes down.  The Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear war.”  Unfortunately, the original design of the...

by Steve Nubie | November 13, 2018 | Food, Foraging, Steve Nubie, Survival, Survival Skills, Wilderness | 0 Comments

When you wild forage you tend to look down to the ground, but maybe it’s time to look up and eat your trees. If you know what to look for you can find a virtual bounty of wild foods in fields and forests.  But our focus always tends to be on plants underfoot.  There...

by Steve Nubie | October 22, 2018 | Food, Homesteading, Steve Nubie, Survival, Survival Skills | 0 Comments

Refrigeration was unheard of and food preservatives were few and far between, but somehow our ancestors managed to survive and thrive. We take a lot for granted when it comes to the foods we eat.  Grocery stores are common, and food is carefully packaged, preserved...