https://beagleprep.com/blog/ The BeaglePrep blog: practical guides on food storage, water rotation, and keeping a calm, organized prepper inventory. en-us https://beagleprep.com/blog/water-storage-rotation/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/water-storage-rotation/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 How to store emergency water and actually keep it fresh: how much per person, which containers work, where to keep it, and the 6-month rotation habit that makes it real. https://beagleprep.com/blog/home-canning-inventory/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/home-canning-inventory/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 How to inventory home-canned goods: label lids by batch, log the sealed date, rotate oldest first, and stop finding mystery jars at the back of the shelf. https://beagleprep.com/blog/best-prepper-inventory-apps/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/best-prepper-inventory-apps/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 An honest comparison of prepper inventory apps in 2026: BeaglePrep, Prep & Pantry, PPantry, Pantry Check, and the spreadsheet. Written by the maker of one of them, with the bias labeled. https://beagleprep.com/blog/72-hour-kit/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/72-hour-kit/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0600 What actually goes in a 72-hour kit: water, no-cook food, light, heat, meds, and documents for a three-day outage. A practical list from a Wisconsin household that loses power a couple times a year. https://beagleprep.com/blog/foraging-mushrooms/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/foraging-mushrooms/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 The five mushrooms I actually pick in Wisconsin — oyster, honey, aspen, pheasant back, and reishi — where I find them near Crivitz and around Milwaukee, and how we cook and dry them for winter soups. https://beagleprep.com/blog/geodesic-dome/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/geodesic-dome/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 How I built a 2V geodesic dome from 3/4-inch EMT conduit for a permanent shelter at camp: running the numbers, flattening and drilling struts, a living-room test fit, and raising it on the deck. https://beagleprep.com/blog/dome-platform/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/dome-platform/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Before the geodesic dome could go up at camp, it needed a flat dry base. Here's the 16x16 pressure-treated platform I built solo on concrete piers, an hour north of Crivitz. https://beagleprep.com/blog/foraging-ramps-pheasant-back/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/foraging-ramps-pheasant-back/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 A late-May foraging walk in a friend's woods outside the city — ramps and pheasant back mushrooms, what we left alone, and how we dried the greens and pickled the bulbs to keep them. https://beagleprep.com/blog/inventory-wolf-alternative/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/inventory-wolf-alternative/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 Inventory Wolf shut down? Here's the best replacement for tracking your prepper and home inventory — BeaglePrep, an offline-first app that turns your stockpile into a Prep Score. https://beagleprep.com/blog/food-storage-per-person/ https://beagleprep.com/blog/food-storage-per-person/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0600 How much food storage do you actually need? A simple per-person, per-day method for calories and water, plus how to check where your stockpile stands today.