How to Start a Retreat from Scratch
Read the story of a family that bought raw land and built their own retreat, including the many steps they took.
Our Prepper Property Search – Part 1
You can live in your house and bug out to your retreat, or you live at your retreat. We’re working towards the latter.
Looks Like More Preppers are Moving to our Mountain
Apparently we are not the only folks who think this is a good area for prepping. Far from the cities and off the beaten track, it is attracting other preppers
It May be Time to Move
If you live in Southern California or in any of the states that draw water from the Colorado River, you might want to move before it is too late.
Prepper Diary October 2: How to Build Your Food Storage Over...
We have buckets of long-term storage food. We have cans of dehydrated food. But we didn't build up this supply overnight. Live the prepper life and you can build up your supplies as well.
Prepper Diary June 8 – We Make an Offer
Our search for the perfect prepper property that is both our retreat and our permanent residence takes a big step closer.
Prepper Diary July 26: We Close on our Prepper Property
After two years of searching, we finally spend our first night in our new property. There's work to be done, like eradicating the mice that call it home.
Prepper Diary November 1: Bugging Out and on Being Charitable
Our old house is for sale so we're bugging out to the mountains. Moving has encouraged us to downsize and minimize.
Prepper Diary October 6: It’s Been a Week of Chores
Never a dull day at Pete's Place as we've got chores to do and repairs to make as we get ready to move to our prepper property.
10 Tips for Buying Prepper Properties
We've seen 40 properties in multiple states, and its been a learning experience! Here are our top 10 property search tips for preppers seeking their forever home.