You’ll also discover how to make your own wind turbine and take advantage of the free each day using either an Ametek DC motor or, even better, salvaged motors of electric bikes and Segways, treadmill motors, or fan motors of car engines.

You’ll also find out how to make one of the most powerful survival foods known to man. Pemmican was invented by the indigenous people of North America to preserve meat without refrigeration. It’s a very high-energy food made out of ground meat, rendered fat, and woodland berries. Just half a pound of Pemmican provides your body with almost 2,000 calories.

Smells can travel for as much as half a mile from where you are cooking. If it is post-collapse and there are hungry people out there, you can bet that every one of them who smells what you’re cooking will come calling – and they might not be the ideal dinner guests.

The Backyard Power Plant is an independent, DIY solar energy system that’s designed to keep a small fridge, a TV, and a laptop running during a blackout or after an EMP.

This type of system makes the most sense to me because the solar panels, the battery bank, and all the other components would not be affected by an EMP directly as they have no circuits within. You can also use the backyard power plant to keep the lights on, charge your phone, run the air conditioning, and keep other critical appliances alive in a grid-down situation.

A diesel or propane generator makes a lot of noise that will attract unwanted attention, and the fuel for a 20-kilowatt generator costs around $200 per day. That would be around $6,000 a month if you use it each day. Unlike a diesel generator, the Backyard Power Plant costs nothing to operate.

In the detailed videos and chapter dedicated to building this ingenious system, you’ll see where to buy the most reliable and inexpensive components, from solar panels to inverters and controllers, and how to assemble and wire everything correctly, even if your electrical skills are non-existent.

I’ll also show you how to make a simple water heater that provides you with FREE hot water each time you use your stove. This heating coil, as I call it, can be made and added to any wood stove in under an hour to give you hot water for life. If you choose to connect it to the off-grid shower, you’ll have an off-grid hot water shower.

You can make the recycled off-grid shower either using cracked or damaged IBCs that have no more use or two wooden pallets and a plastic sheet. So even if there’s no more running water, you can still take a shower while your neighbors are pouring buckets of water over their heads

You turn it into a cool, off-grid stove that can warm a few rooms or help you cook when the power goes out. During snowstorms and winter blackouts that last for days or weeks, wouldn’t you prefer to huddle with your family around a cozy, crackling fire instead of shivering and shaking under a blanket, praying for the power company to come and fix things?

You’ll also discover how to make the bread that fed Christopher Columbus on his maiden voyage to America and Union soldiers in the Civil War. How would you feel having this food that lasts a lifetime without refrigeration to feed your family in the next crisis?

I’m also going to show you how you can legally turn your CB car radio into a powerful transmitter capable of emitting and receiving communications from hundreds of miles away. After an EMP, this will be one of the only sources of communication left, giving you an important tactical advantage and access to vital information.

You’ll also discover exactly how to add the SHTF medicinal garden on a small, 96-square-feet piece of land that’s sitting idle in your backyard. Wouldn’t it be great to have on hand the most powerful legal natural painkiller, the anti-Inflammatory herb, the most sought-after medicinal plant in crisis-stricken Venezuela, the plant that stops bleeding fast, the backyard antibiotic, the stomach band-aid, the plant people with high blood sugar levels should add to their meals, the herb that helps you fall asleep, the plant that calms the mind and decreases anxiety, and many more to choose from? This chapter is written by Amber Robinson, a certified herbalist who has been making and using her own natural remedies for decades while helping thousands of people along the way.

Another chapter written by Amber will show you how to identify and put to good use the most powerful 40 wild remedies growing all over Europe. Inside, you will find color pictures for each plant, so if you have your copy of No Grid Survival, you can always find a remedy you need in the wild or near your home.