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Heritage Life Skills VI is coming up April 21- 23 in Waynesville at the Folkmoot Center.  If you've not attended, but are into prepping, off-grid living, homesteading or just want to learn some long lost skills, you simply must attend.  HLS is one of the most...

We have a new listing for a 131 acre tract just outside the town of Black Mountain.  Click here to read the property description and view photos of this exceptional property.  Featuring creeks, easy road grade access, pasture and fields, woodlands, southern exposure,...

What do Silicon Valley and prepping have in common?  Turns out, there is a growing interest in prepping out there and elsewhere in the high tech sector.  An article in the current issue of "The New Yorker" magazine (read it here) interviews several founders and...

One of my favorite movies is Apollo 13, which chronicles the events surrounding the explosion on the Apollo command module in 1969.  Its one of the few "based on a true story" movies that is actually quite accurate.  I've read the book "Lost Moon" by Commander Jim...

Have a new property coming soon.  This one features 131 acres of beautiful land in southeastern Buncombe County (Asheville).  Its hardly ten minutes from downtown Black Mountain with its dozens of privately owned restaurants along with every shop and service you could...

Our good friend and best selling author, Dr. Bill Forstchen has been busy signing copies of his newest book, "The Final Day".  This is the third and final installment in the "One Second After" trilogy.  The second installment was "One Year After".  When Bill first...

We have a new pocket listing that will be of interest to some of our readers.  I toured this property back in the spring and at the time it was listed with another firm.  The owners didn't get much action and pulled it off the market, but they were impressed with my...

The Non Electric Cooking Bag?  What's that? While visiting Jan Sterrett, friend and owner of Carolina Readiness Supply in Waynesville the other day, she pointed out what looked sort of like a gigantic 60 round magazine on its side with a beret covering the hole in the...

We have a new listing for an ideal prepper property close to the town of Black Mountain.  If you've read Dr. Bill Forstchen's seminal book "One Second After", you'll recognize the town of Black Mountain as the story is based on our wonderful hometown.  This recently...