Survival recipe video: How to cook trout in foil over a campfire

Does your area have stocked fishing ponds for kids? Here is a great fishing and cooking method to “hook” the youngsters!.

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10 reasons why your kids should get involved in bushcrafting

 Bushcrafting can be a defining activity in someone’s life and more and more people are starting to realize that. Get your kids (and older adults) involved now!

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10 survival items for beginning apartment preppers

Suppose you live in an apartment with limited storage space – what are some of the first things needed to start being prepared?

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Recipe: How to make frontloader washing machine laundry soap

I’m not buying laundry soap again. This recipe is easy and cheap, and helps eliminate those huge plastic detergent bottles. The ingredients are available at any grocery store.

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Review: Kuru Quest boots fill fashion and work needs

An over-looked category of footwear is work boots. But that type and style of  footwear could be just what you need, and these may be the boots for you.

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Eco-Adventure Mississippi River / Wilderness Survival Training Tours

Survival Common Sense co-hosts eco-river tour adventures with Quapaw Outfitters. It’s part vacation, part wilderness survival training, and part everything you ever wanted in a grand adventure.  With Big River Wild Adventures, you’ll learn basic survival skills while canoeing on America’s largest river, on big water through big wilderness country,…

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How to Roast a Venison Hindquarter

Easily roast a venison hindquarter in an electric roaster with marinade recipe and cooking instructions. Make delicious roast venison in a few hours.

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Big River Wild Adventures: Learn wilderness skills at this Mississippi River outdoors school

Want a totally unique eco-vacation, but one that is affordable and nearby? Want to learn basic wilderness survival skills while canoeing on America’s largest river, through some 300 miles of wilderness? Big River Wild Adventures combines wilderness, canoe cruising and learning.

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Lost hiker uses common sense to avert survival situation in Central Oregon

This lost hiker in Central Oregon avoided a survival situation by using common sense and staying put when he realized he was lost and it was getting dark. 

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Review: The Urban Prepper’s Guide, tips for when everything goes down

Our comfortable urban lifestyles can come to an end in an instant. Think Ukraine, or a flash flood, wildfire, earthquake, landslide, tsunami or some other natural disaster. How can you prepare for any eventuality? A good start might be to read “The Urban Prepper’s Guide” by Jim Cobb.

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