Prepper Skills for Beginners: 7 You Should Learn First

If you’re just getting started, learning the right prepper skills for beginners is one of the most important steps you can take. Gear is useful—but skills are what actually keep you prepared. When I first began prepping, I only focused on certain aspects. I was already quite proficient skill wise with firearms, as they are … Read more

How to Make a Fishing Rod Using Only Objects Found in the Woods

Plan and Prepared welcomes Virgil Renfroe to the site. Virgil fell in love with bass fishing as a boy in Red Bay, Alabama, and, as an adult living in Springfield, Missouri, he taught his three children and 7 grandchildren all he knew about bass fishing on the shores of Bull Shoals. He now runs Your … Read more

5 Important wilderness survival skills you should know!

Editor’s Note: Plan and Prepared welcomes Patrick Bailey to the site. Patrick is a professional writer mainly in the fields of mental health, addiction, and living in recovery. He attempts to stay on top of the latest news in the addiction and the mental health world and enjoy writing about these topics to break the … Read more

5 Problems You’ll Experience as a Handgun Novice

Planandprepared.com welcomes Jay Chambers. Jay is a pro free speech business owner based in Austin, Texas. Having lived through several natural disasters and more than a few man-made ones (hello 2008), he believes that resilience and self-sufficiency are essential in this increasingly unpredictable world. That’s why he started a business! Jay writes over at Minute … Read more

Water Purification for Survival

Editor’s note: Please welcome Patrick Morrow to the site! Patrick is a freelance outdoor writer. His main focus is on fishing, but he also covers survival, prepping topics, and completes several survival challenges each year. When you find yourself in a survival situation, water should be one of your top priorities. The human body can only … Read more