After years of trying to prepare for emergencies, my husband and I were asked to be self-reliance specialists in our church congregation. Each week we did research and wrote short newsletter articles to not only help improve self sufficiency in everyday life, but also and especially, during emergencies. We discovered that emergencies include natural disasters, but more often, emergencies for individuals and families come in the form of medical emergencies, unexpected vehicle repairs, job loss, abuse, addiction, mental health issues, death, and so many other individual challenges.

Ready & Prepped is built to help people prepare for realistic emergencies that includes natural disasters, and other major events like EMPs or War, but also help people prepare to weather the more common storms in our lives.

Our focus is on realistic preparedness. Realistically most of us don't own property that we can "bug out" to, and realistically if there's a major disaster (ie 7.0 Earthquake, or Hurricane on the scale of Helene), roads and infrastructure will be destroyed, so no one could go anywhere except on horseback or on foot anyway. Therefore our focus is on how to prepare to stay home.

The more we can help each other be prepared the better off we all will be. As you learn and become prepared, it is our greatest desire that you will in turn help others to get prepared as well. It will prevent them from having to beg supplies off of you in the event of an emergency, and it will make everyone safer and your community more resilient and better capable of a quick recovery from whatever disaster may hit.