The Disaster Preparedness Handbook


Book Description

Guides readers in establishing a disaster plan covering the basic human needs in case the unpredictable happens, with information for those with special needs, including the elderly, children, pregnant women, and pets.




Beginner's Guide to Family Preparedness


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This indispensable guide to family emergency storage provides a wealth of information for anyone who is serious about being prepared. In the eight sections of this book you will find: * Basic food suggestions for home food storage * Food storage facts and tips * Directions on dehydrating, fermenting, smoking, and curing meat * Nonfood necessities, such as medical supplies, clothing, and baby needs * Ovenless baking, soap making, candle molding, tanning hides, using white gas and kerosene, and tips for a survival garden * Survival mechanics * Recipes for tasty survival foods, including main dishes, breads, and desserts * Techniques for sprouting grain, washing on a rub-board, building animals traps, and other handy information No other literature on the market offers a more in-depth guide to family emergency preparedness. Beginner s Guide to Family Preparedness is a valuable addition to any home or community library! This useful book contains a wealth of valuable information that can help any family be prepared for emergencies that may arise. It is written in simple language so that beginners can use it, but the information far exceeds that found in most other books. The beginner's guide is conveniently organized in eight sections. Part 1 discusses the why, what, how and where of food storage and recommends basic foods for a home storage program. Part 2 presents food-storage facts and covers fumigation, the storage environment, containers, shelving plans, and rotation. Dehydration, fermenting, smoking and curing meat are the themes of Part 3. Non-food necessities such as medical supplies, clothing, and baby needs are treated in Part 4. Survival mechanics, Part 5, includes ovenless baking, soap making, candle molding, tanning hides, using white gas and kerosene, and tips for a survival garden. Part 6 is a recipe section for survival foods, presenting simple, tasty recipes for many dishes including cookies and crackers, breads and cereals, main dishes, and desserts. Part 7 presents tips on techniques for sprouting grain, washing on a rub-board, building animal traps, storage utensils, other handy hints. The final chapter, Part 8, presents information for a comprehensive survival library.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness


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Ready for anything. Both natural and man-made disasters seem to occur with greater frequency. While these disasters can be devastating, the vast majority of casualties are caused by a lack of preparation. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Disaster Preparedness teaches readers the right steps to prepare the home or office for a disaster, and about issues relating to insurance, evacuation plans, and building an emergency to-go pack. By an internationally acknowledged expert author Practical, comprehensive, hands-on advice applicable to most disasters Meets the demands of a vast and expanding market for this genre




Beginners Guide to Family Preparedness


Book Description

This indispensable guide to family emergency storage provides a wealth of information for anyone who is serious about being prepared.In the eight sections of this book you will find: Basic food suggestions for home food storage Food storage facts and tips Directions on dehydrating, fermenting, smoking, and curing meat Nonfood necessities, such as medical supplies, clothing, and baby needs Ovenless baking, soap making, candle molding, tanning hides, using white gas and kerosene, and tips for a survival garden Survival mechanics Recipes for tasty survival foods, including main dishes, breads, and desserts Techniques for sprouting grain, washing on a rub board, building animals traps, and other handy informationNo other literature on the market offers a more in-depth guide to family emergency preparedness. Beginner s Guide to Family Preparedness is a valuable addition to any home or community library!*********************************************************This useful book contains a wealth of valuable information that can help any family be prepared for emergencies that may arise. It is written in simple language so that beginners can use it, but the information far exceeds that found in most other books. the beginners guide is conveniently organized in eight sections. Part 1 discusses the why, what, how and where of food storage and recommends basic foods for a home storage program. Part 2 presents food-storage facts and covers fumigation, the storage environment, containers, shelving plans and rotation. Dehydration, fermenting, smoking and curing meat are the themes of Part 3. Non-food necessities such as medical supplies, clothing, and baby needs are treated in Part 4. Survival mechanics, Part 5, includes ovenless baking, soap making, candle molding, tanning hides, using white gas and kerosene, and tips for a survival garden. Part 6 is a recipe section for survival foods, presenting simple, tasty recipes for many dishes including cookies and crackers, breads and cereals, main dishes, and desserts. Part 7 presents tips on techniques for sprouting grain, washing on a rub board, building animal traps, storage utensils, other handy hints. the final chapter, Part 8, presents information for a comprehensive survival library. Beginners Guide to a Family Preparedness will be a valuable addition to any home or sommunitty library. Horizon Publishers recognizes it as an important contribution to the literature on food storage and preparedness and takes pleasure in its release.




Are You Ready?


Book Description

Accompanying CD-ROM contains additional supporting materials, sample electronic slide presentations, and other resources.




The Disaster-Ready Home


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A complete, step-by-step manual for safely sheltering-in-place at home so you are prepared for any disaster or disease. If a disaster forces you to shelter in place, do you think you have everything you need to safely and comfortably stay put in your home? If the answer is no, The Disaster-Ready Home will help you create a safe, well-stocked place to weather out any emergency. Survival expert and bestselling author Creek Stewart gives you a step-by-step emergency preparedness plan to meet your food, water, heat, and sanitation needs during any disaster. Including detailed lists, photographs, and complete instructions to make the plan easy to follow, this book is the only resource you need for a disaster. You’ll learn how to: -Create an emergency pantry stocked with enough food for the timeframe of your choice—from two weeks to three months to a full year -Select and store food that fits your taste, diet, and budget -Easily rotate and use your emergency food supply, so nothing goes to waste -Set up long-term water storage and renewable water sources -Cook food and boil water when your kitchen appliances aren’t working -Safely heat and light your home when the power is out -Effectively manage sanitation issues if running water is unavailable -And much more! With daily headlines dominated by disease and disasters, the need to be prepared has never been more evident. This practical, field-tested guide will help you protect and provide for your family when any situation arises.




31 Days to Survival


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People are born with the innate desire to survive, but sadly, many in our increasingly dependent society look to others for relief and assistance following a disaster. The fact is that help from government, family, or neighbors is often unavailable when needed most, and in the end, you may have only yourself to count on. Do you know what to do and how to do it if disaster strikes? If not, 31 Days to Survival will help you prepare to survive both short and long-term disasters. Each day contains a specific task for you to do. This daily, step-by-step approach is designed not only to teach you practical survival skills but also to ensure that you complete the vital tasks by the end of 31-day period, thus increasing your survival skills and your readiness to survive a long-term disaster. By the end of the 31 days you will have: Built a rotating canned food shelf and filled your pantry with nutritious, durable food Accumulated the right firearms for foraging and defense Assembled emergency first-aid and dental kits Made a homemade water filter Put together a functional 72-hour kit and an everyday carry kit Constructed and used traps for small game and fish Collected tools and seeds for your survival garden Made like-minded friends And much more . . . Are you willing to invest a month of your time for survival skills and knowledge that will last a lifetime? If the answer is yes, what are you waiting for?




Survival Mom


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From the creator of TheSurvivalMom.com comes this first-of-its-kind guidebook for all the “prepper” moms keen to increase their family's level of preparedness for emergencies and crises of all shapes and sizes. Publisher’s Weekly calls Lisa Bedford’s Survival Mom an “impressively comprehensive manual,” saying, “suburban mom Bedford helps readers learn about, prepare for, and respond to all manner of disasters. . . . From 'Instant Survival Tip' sidebars to a list of 'Lessons from the Great Depression'. . . Bedford's matter-of-fact yet supportive tone will keep the willies at bay.”




The Resilient Farm and Homestead


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The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland. Falk's wide array of fruit trees, rice paddies (relatively unheard of in the Northeast), ducks, nuts, and earth-inspired buildings is a hopeful image for the future of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. The book covers nearly every strategy Falk and his team have been testing at the Whole Systems Research Farm over the past decade, as well as experiments from other sites Falk has designed through his off-farm consulting business. The book includes detailed information on earthworks; gravity-fed water systems; species composition; the site-design process; site management; fuelwood hedge production and processing; human health and nutrient-dense production strategies; rapid topsoil formation and remineralization; agroforestry/silvopasture/grazing; ecosystem services, especially regarding flood mitigation; fertility management; human labor and social-systems aspects; tools/equipment/appropriate technology; and much more, complete with gorgeous photography and detailed design drawings. The Resilient Farm and Homestead is more than just a book of tricks and techniques for regenerative site development, but offers actual working results in living within complex farm-ecosystems based on research from the "great thinkers" in permaculture, and presents a viable home-scale model for an intentional food-producing ecosystem in cold climates, and beyond. Inspiring to would-be homesteaders everywhere, but especially for those who find themselves with "unlikely" farming land, Falk is an inspiration in what can be done by imitating natural systems, and making the most of what we have by re-imagining what's possible. A gorgeous case study for the homestead of the future.




Beginner Emergency Survival Preparedness: How to Prepare for Emergency, Job Loss Or a Total Collapse.


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Are you prepared? Things sometimes go wrong, and everyone in-the-know is urging us to prepare: Homeland Security, Centers for Disease Control, state governments. Every fifty years, approximately, the United States faces a major cataclysm. Preparing for the unexpected can be done without panic and within a reasonable budget. Written and field tested by military and survival experts, our ten step process delivers a no-nonsense backup plan without investing any more than the average family currently spends on fire insurance for their home.