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As I mentioned previously, my schedule has changed and I am unable to write new posts at this point. While I'm on hiatus, we're re-running the earlier posts from The Practical Prepper. Thank you for your patience and your continued…

Well, if you live in New Jersey you can come out from under your beds.  Earlier this week NJ subscribers to a Verizon service received an alarming text message informing them that a civil emergency was occurring and advising them to take immediate shelter. Signed...the U.S. Government. It was a mass text message to an undisclosed number that sent many into a panic.

Read the full story by clicking on the image if you'd like, but the question is what triggered this erroneous "War of the…

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So, after explaining a bit about me and my path to preparedness in my…

One of the things I look forward to every few months is attending local farm auctions.  When we moved to the country several years ago, I first attended these events as an outsider...a greenhorn who knew not a bushog from a disc harrow, a golf cart from a Gator or a band saw from a table saw.  Shoulda, woulda, coulda learned those things earlier in life, but didn't, and so the auction was a new and exciting kind of place for me, sort of like a yard sale of anything to do with farming,…