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Outdoors

The outdoors offers endless opportunities to connect with nature and develop essential survival skills. This section covers camping, hunting, and primitive skills like firestarting, shelter building, and foraging. Whether you’re preparing for an outdoor adventure or honing your wilderness survival skills, these guides will help you become more self-reliant in the great outdoors.

Peak Refuel Meals Review

Camping

Peak Refuel Review

Mountain House Meals Review

Camping

Mountain House Meals Review (Best & Worst Mountain House Meals)

Natural Fire Starters

Primitive Skills

17+ Best Natural Firestarters for Camping (Natural Tinder)

Groundhog Recipes

Hunting & Wild Game

30+ Groundhog Recipes

Instafire Ember Off Grid Oven

Emergency Preparedness

Instafire Ember Off Grid Oven Review

Liver Pate and crackers

Hunting & Wild Game

How to Cook Deer Liver (10+ Venison Liver Recipes)

My own homemade acorn flour

Forage Edible Wild Plants

How to Make Acorn Flour

Wild foraged flour

Forage Edible Wild Plants

40+ Wild Plants You Can Make into Flour

eating crow

Hunting & Wild Game

How to Eat Crow (Literally)

Venison Recipes

Cook from Scratch

70+ Venison Recipes

Eating Acorns ~ Acorn Recipes from Around the World

Forage Edible Wild Plants

Eating Acorns: 60+ Acorn Recipes from Around the World

Acorn Nut Butter ~ A creamy spread made from acorns.

Forage Edible Wild Plants

Acorn Nut Butter

Collage of healthy food dehydrator recipes

Dehydrating

100+ Dehydrator Recipes ~ Food Dehydrator Recipes for Fruit, Veggies, Meat & More

Our outdoor canning kitchen

Learn New Skills

Setting Up an Outdoor Canning Kitchen

figure 4 deadfall trap set under a large rock

Hunting & Wild Game

How to Make a Figure 4 Deadfall Trap

Fatwax (Animal Fat Salve)

Craft Herbal Remedies

Making Fatwax (Animal Fat Salve)

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