My friend Ceredwyn Alexander lives on a homestead in the mountains of Vermont. Her family raises a lot of their own food, from chickens to cabbage, and they heat their home with wood they chop ...

Inside a church on 189th Street, the New York City Preppers Network gathers for its monthly meeting. About two dozen men and women sit on plastic chairs facing a whiteboard. Jason Charles, a ...

We’ve uncovered a prototypical American prepper home—designed with safety and luxury in mind. Set on a pastoral 29.3-acre lot in Jonesborough, TN, this ranch home is fully constructed from ...

The Docket: True crime, court news and legal buzz from around San Antonio, delivered to your inbox. Many preppers have an origin story, when they realized the world was a more fragile and ...

(MCT) —Ralph Broome doesn’t know how it will happen. Catastrophic earthquake? Terrorist strike? Pandemic flu? “The way the nation really is right now, everybody’s expecting something to happen,” he ...

This was the year that coronavirus fears turned American shoppers into hoarders. There have been widespread shortages on products like toilet paper, hand sanitizer and flour as people prepared for the ...

Sure, you could engage in a traditional Valentine's Day activity — say, taking your sweetie out for a romantic dinner. Or you could spend the day together learning how to control a bleeding wound, ...

The so-called prepper community has a long list of concerns—and for quite some time Ebola has been near the top of it. Experts, though, are split on whether the confirmation that the disease has ...

I can’t tell you his name, or where he lives — to do so, the Prepper told me, would compromise “OPSEC.” If, like me, you don’t know what OPSEC means, the Prepper will enlighten you: “operational ...

An increasing number of Americans, ranging from Silicon Valley billionaires to Trump-fearing liberals, are preparing for doomsday. For some, self-reliance is a philosophy for everyday life. They grow ...

Many preppers have an origin story, when they realized the world was a more fragile and unpredictable place than they had thought, and that any help they might have assumed was on its way wasn’t.