When people talk about getting ready for disaster, two groups always come up — preppers and survivalists. At first glance, they seem alike: both value self-reliance and readiness when life takes a ...

Preppers are often depicted as eccentric loners, hoarding supplies in underground bunkers and preparing for doomsday scenarios that may never come. These exaggerated portrayals have shaped public ...

Survivalism is a primarily United States movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists or preppers) who actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political ...

The term “Doomsday prepper” is often associated with the paranoid, anti-government stereotype of the 1990s. The truth is that many of today’s survivalists are everyday folks with full-time jobs and ...

From a quick read of the schedule and our previous experience we can give you a few must-sees: 1. Saturday @ 12:30 p.m.: Making Bread in a Jar with Ray Stephens. Even if you have absolutely no ...

Pinterest—the mason jar lobby’s most effective propaganda apparatus—is an aggressively wholesome social platform. It’s The Container Store of social networks, but past the arrangements of DIY ...

There are so, so, so, so many scenarios for the apocalypse. Natural disasters: fires, floods, tornadoes. And man-made: biochemical accidents, wars, mass shootings. The stereotype of a prepper—borne of ...

The term disaster or survival "prepper" may conjure images of bunkers or rations, but Jim Cobb says it is much more practical than you might think."(As) I look at it, it's common sense," Cobb ...

A few weeks ago, I became convinced I ought to buy a compass. Also a tent, a LifeStraw, and solar chargers. Was I embarrassed about this 48-hour panic? Yes. But reading an op-ed at two in the morning ...

The term disaster or survival "prepper" may conjure images of bunkers or rations, but Jim Cobb says it is much more practical than you might think."(As) I look at it, it's common sense," Cobb ...