by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 23, 2021 | 4 Patriots
Ask the average man or woman on the street what inflation is and they’ll be able to tell you. They might not know the exact current inflation rate, what causes it or how it affects the overall economy. But they know it means higher prices for just about everything....
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 23, 2021 | 4 Patriots
I’m going to make a prediction. Your electrical power will go out at least once this summer or fall. It might be a brief outage or it may be an extended blackout. But you’ll be without power for a period of time. Now, I realize that’s not a bold prediction. Power...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 22, 2021 | 4 Patriots
How long have herbs and other plants been used for medicinal purposes? Probably for as long as human civilizations have existed. Archaeological evidence shows that humans used medicinal plants during the Paleolithic Era. That was about 60,000 years ago. The Sushruta...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 19, 2021 | 4 Patriots
What has been a pretty mild winter so far for much of the country is now changing. Cold air is blasting south from the Artic. Much colder than average temperatures are predicted for large portions of the country. At least through mid-February. We all know to grab a...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 16, 2021 | 4 Patriots
Depending on your age, you and your family might have sat around the living room listening to a radio program back in the day. Perhaps you or your parents owned one of those large RCA Victor radios back in the Fifties. Advertisements from those days show a...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 16, 2021 | 4 Patriots
America was once considered an exclusively agricultural country. Nearly everyone grew their own food. That’s what you did if you wanted to eat and feed your family. Over time, as the industrial age set it and flourished, a smaller and smaller percentage of Americans...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 16, 2021 | 4 Patriots
From time to time I hear someone bad-mouth freeze-dried food. Such as its taste or nutritional value. Sometimes they say it costs too much. Or that you can only freeze-dry a small variety of foods. Or that there are better options for survival food. Perhaps you’ve...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 16, 2021 | 4 Patriots
Hello, my fellow Patriot. Cade here. We’ve all commented at one point or another about having a stressful day. Just imagine the lives of those that fought on the “front lines” of the global pandemic. Or those digging out lifeless bodies in the rubble of the Florida...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 13, 2021 | 4 Patriots
A recent report from the American Society of Engineers revealed a disturbing statistic. There are more than 3,500 power outages in America every year. If you’re a typical American, you’ve probably experienced more than one outage over the past 12 months. Some only...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jul 12, 2021 | 4 Patriots
Sometimes I think we have serious survival challenges here in the U.S. And we do, for sure.We have to be prepared for all sorts of possibilities. Including extreme weather and attacks against the electrical grid.We need to have survival food and clean drinking water...
