DIY Survival: Best Hacks for Worst-Case Scenarios

When the unexpected happens, there's only one person you can rely on with 100 percent certainty, and that's you. DIY Survival gets you in the right state of mind to help you plan for and practice self-reliant survival skill when times are tough and you need to take back control. The editors of OffGrid Magazine have collected the best of the best and most applicable expert information gleaned from a decade of publishing real-world survival information and put it all in one place for your to learn from. Here's just a sampling of what's inside:

Health Hacks: Improvised disinfectants; emergency amputation; delivering a baby when medical help isn't available; do-it-yourself soap making; wound closure techniques; antibiotic alternatives

Skills: Starting fires without matches; improvised water filters; scavenging abandoned cars; survival lessons from the homeless; knifemaking and sharpening; practicing survival techniques at home; unarmed self-defense.

Food and Drink: How to can meat; make and install a rain barrel; common plants you can survive on; brewing beer for survival; building a six-month food supply; improvised fishing methods; basics of survival gardening; trapping small-game animals; jerky making; raising chickens for eggs; long-term water storage; edible plants and dangerous lookalikes; mushroom foraging;