(Natural News) Honey is essential survival food. It’s an excellent natural sweetener and antibacterial dressing, and a good source of phenols and other antioxidant compounds. Honey also has various medicinal uses, such as for treating wounds, soothing coughs and nausea and improving sleep quality. An excellent natural preservative, it was even used by the Ancient Egyptians for embalming. Before […]

(Natural News) Homesteading requires diverse skills to truly become self-sufficient. You need to produce your own food, create and mend your clothing, till the land yourself and protect yourself from invading animals or thieves. For those looking to get into homesteading, here are some of the essential homesteading skills that you will need to learn. (h/t […]

(Natural News) Spanish and Israeli researchers have found evidence suggesting that ancient humans stored marrow-filled bones for later consumption. 400,000 years ago, these ancient humans enjoyed these much like one would enjoy a can of soup, using the bone and dried skin to preserve the fat and nutrient-rich bone marrow. These findings, published in the journal Science Advances, provide the earliest clues […]

(Natural News) Food preservation will come in handy when SHTF. With resources running out, food that lasts a long time will help you better plan your meals and save what you’ve foraged or stockpiled for later consumption. But first, you’ll need certain tools and ingredients to preserve food. (h/t to FoodStorageMoms.com) Dehydrator As its name suggests, a […]

(Natural News) Once you’ve become proficient at prepping for short-term emergencies, you now need to prepare for survival scenarios that may last for months or even years. A nuclear winter, for instance, could bring months without clean air, fresh foods and cellphone coverage. This could spell trouble if you’ve only stockpiled on supplies that will tide you by for […]

(Natural News) If you could learn a way to grow your own food supply, synthesize powerful anti-cancer nutrients and create living mineral supplements without using sunlight, soil, gardening or electricity, would that be valuable to you? Praise Mother Nature because that solution already exists. It’s called sprouting! Sprouting doesn’t have to be complicated, either. I’ve […]

(Natural News) Summer savory (Satureja hortensis) is a highly aromatic herb that, like many in the mint (Lamiaceae) family, is used as a culinary ingredient. A cousin of winter savory, summer savory is described as having a hot, peppery flavor with notes of marjoram, mint and thyme. This spicy herb is an excellent seasoning. It […]

(Natural News) Because of skyrocketing demand for storable food, immune-boosting nutrients and preparedness items, many of the products that people want (and need) are difficult to find in stock. The food shortages are real, and even many nutritional supplements are hard to come by as people stock up on antioxidants (like vitamin C) and minerals […]

(Natural News) People are buying storable food products in huge quantities right now, but have you actually read the ingredients in some of these foods? Most storable food manufacturers hide their ingredients to try to prevent the public from seeing what they really contain. That’s no surprise, since most of them are made with genetically […]

(Natural News) If you’re buying storable food that you think is “non-GMO,” you’ve probably been hoodwinked. We’ve become aware that a large number of storable food manufacturers and affiliates are falsely promoting their food products as “non-GMO” even when they are heavily derived from genetically modified corn, soy and canola products. A good rule of […]