I recently blogged about brewing your own spruce beer and the pleasure of making your own drinks from nature. Not everyone drinks alcohol and some people won’t want to wait a few weeks for fermentation and maturing to happen, so … Read More
Good first aid skills and supplies are a real cornerstone of prepping, and essential for anyone involved in higher-risk outdoor activities where you may be far away from immediate help. So it’s always good to have a decent first aid … Read More
One part of practising survival and preparedness skills is being resourceful and adapting every-day items into something for a completely different purpose. Many of you may have seen various so-called ‘hobo stoves’: at the lower end, made from tin cans, … Read More
Do you hope for the best, but prepare for the worst? Know your BOBs from your BOVs? Have at least three months’ supply of food and water stashed away? Then you could well be a prepper. Here are twenty more tell-tale signs … Read More
Firelighting is perhaps one of the most important survival skills to master. Most wood fires are pretty similar, being constructed from the 3 basic elements of fire: fuel, heat and oxygen. But how the fire is started can be wildly … Read More
Many of you reading this will have put great effort into choosing just the right gear for your outdoor activities or survival equipment inventories. To you, it is likely a knife isn’t just a knife, but a prized possession that … Read More
If you’re a seasoned prepper, or someone who is in the process of upping your prepping game, then you’re likely to be familiar with the concept of bug-out survival training. For those not in the know, this type of training … Read More
Recently we had a discussion at Polymath Products about what we would choose if we could have only five survival items to get us through a typical UK-based wilderness survival situation, say up a mountain or in remote woodland. This discussion … Read More
The humble Altoids tin, designed many years ago as packaging for ‘The Original Celebrated Curiously Strong Peppermints’, has since become the survival kit container of choice amongst the prepper and survivalist community. Pocket-sized, robust, readily available, and with a seemingly … Read More