4 Skills You Should Be Bringing To Your Prepper Group

The biggest advantage anyone can have in a large-scale disaster situation is to be a part of a well-prepared and self-reliant group or community that is full of like-minded people with diversified skills. Whether your community is a small, close-knit group of preppers or just a group of concerned neighbors, there are several key skills that you should be bringing to the table to ensure that you will be a valuable part of this group. Today we are going to discuss 5 of these top skills to ensure that you will be ready to rebuild within your community if and when a large-scale disaster strikes.

Food procurement and cooking

It doesn’t matter if you’ve got an entire battery of weapons and ammo or enough toilet paper to ride out the zombie apocalypse in 2-ply comfort, if you can’t procure food from your environment; you’re completely reliant on stored food. In a large disaster scenario, being reliant on any 1 solution for any problem is extremely dangerous. Stored food has a habit of going a lot quicker than you’d think in a disaster, so it is important to have some experience in procuring food either by hunting, fishing, foraging or gardening.

Our modern convenience-laden world does a good job of masking how much time our ancestors devoted every day to cooking. In a grid-down scenario, cooking chores are going to take significantly longer than they do in normal times, and you will need to have at least the basics of cooking food not only from scratch, but without the modern conveniences of microwaves, dishwashers, water faucets and stoves.

Herbalism and plant identification

In a post-disaster scenario, even the most basic of modern medications are going to be in short supply. Although it is extremely important to have a well-stocked supply of medications, at some point, those medications will run out or expire. Depending on the severity of the disaster you may not have access to these medications again for a long time. Just like with any modern convenience, once this support system is gone we are going to have to rewind time so to speak and go back to using what the earth provides us for the majority of our needs. READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE HERE