Friday Preparedness Pool – 4

It’s Friday again, which means it is time for the fourth edition of the Friday Preparedness Pool.   Seattle church donates nearly 11 tons of food to Port Angeles Salvation Army In last week’s edition of the Preparedness Pool, we shared an article about thieves who stole a month’s worth of emergency food from a Port [...]

UK Flash Flooding – What To Do

Once again the UK, and also Ireland, has been struck by major flooding as more than a months’ worth of rain fell in just 24 hours. It caught many people off guard, trapping them homes and cars, and killing at least two people. This sort of flooding is particularly dangerous as the rivers, drains and [...]

Friday Preparedness Pool – 3

Friday Preparedness Pool Welcome to the third edition of the Friday Preparedness Pool. We’ve been bringing you the Preparedness Pool for three straight weeks, and we want to know what you think! So far, have you been enjoying the links we share? Is there anything you like, love, or hate? If there is something you [...]

Preparedness Freebies in Scotland

Next week (24th-30th Oct) the British Red Cross, in partnership with the Scottish Government, is launching Ready For Winter, a campaign to encourage people in Scotland to gather a few basic items in a bag to store at home or to carry with them in case they become stranded by severe weather, as happened last [...]

Friday Preparedness Pool – 2

Welcome to the second edition of Friday’s Preparedness Pool. There were some interesting emergency food related articles on the web this week,with topics ranging from seedbanks to Sesame Street. One thing is evident - emergency preparedness is going mainstream, and this is one ban wagon you don’t want to miss! . . The Apocalyptic Architecture of Seedbanks [...]

Have You Prepared Your Car For Winter?

Last time I posted about preparing your home for the winter, I thought I would do the same for vehicles as most people don’t normally bother. I have posted before about car emergency kits but I thought it would be a good idea to expand on it for winter. Firstly, now is a good time [...]

Friday’s Preparedness Pool – 1

Welcome to Friday’s Preparedness Pool, Emergency Food Storage’s weekly link roundup.   This will be a weekly update that will feature preparedness links that we love from around the web. Here you will find preparedness innovations, tips and tricks, news and other interesting content from the net. We love being up to date on the [...]

Preparing Your Home For Winter

I think everyone will with me agree that despite the wonderfully unexpected sunshine we’ve just had, we are now heading right into winter. As such I thought I would give you some ideas (with thanks to frugaldad.com) to start preparing you home now, rather than wait until the cold really sets in. Remember these are [...]

Water Run – Clean Water For Brighter Futures

At EFS we are commited to to creating value, for our customers and the wider world investing a portion of our profits to helping offers the best way we can. You can also help by committing to sponsoring our runners. . Why Sponsor? . We happen to be in a unique position to get the [...]