Land Shark Instant Survival Shelter & Stealth Bag is an immediate shelter that will help you stay dry, retain heat, and reduce the cooling effects of the wind. Cost is around $70.
Website: land-shark.com
WaterBOB by Way Safe Florida, Inc. is an emergency drinking-water storage container that fits your bathtub so you can fill it with water before a big storm or hurricane hits. It holds up to one hundred gallons and comes with a pump. Cost is less than $50.
Website: waterbob.com
RainXchange by Aquascape offers several rain-collecting options, from a simple decorative barrel to an underground storage system with a water feature.
Website: rainxchange.com
Titan Ready USA’s storage system houses two to four 55-gallon water barrels that connect and stack horizontally.
Website: titanreadyusa.com
Sure Water makes 260- to 525-gallon elliptical tanks. Their smallest tank is equivalent to about five 55-gallon barrels. The tanks are equipped with two spigots, one at floor level and one about two feet up, for easy access.
Website: surewatertanks.com
WaterPrepared makes an elliptical, two-tank, stackable system that holds 160 gallons of water. They also sell the parts for joining tanks if you are a do-it-yourselfer.
Website: waterprepared.com
Emergency Water Corp offers the EZ Cycling System—a great way to recycle the water in a 55-gallon drum and maintain a clean water supply.
Website: emergencywatercorp.com
Aquamira Water Treatment is a chlorine dioxide water treatment used to condition water stored in containers or to purify contaminated water. One ounce treats thirty gallons and costs about fifty cents to treat one gallon.
Website: aquamira.com
H2OResQ by Water Pure Technologies treats water for the prevention of biofilm growth.
Website: waterpuretechnologies.com
SteriPEN makes a line of UV water purifiers for individual use. There are several sizes ranging in price from $50 to $100.
Website: steripen.com
Katadyn Micropur contains both chlorine dioxide and NaDCC and costs about fifty cents to purify one liter.
Website: katadyn.com
Potable Aqua manufactures both chlorine-dioxide tablets, called PA Chlorine Dioxide Purification Tablets, and iodine-based tablets, called PA Drinking Water Germicidal Tablets. It costs about fifty cents to purify one liter.
Website: potableaqua.com
Aquatabs are an effervescent tablet containing NaDCC and are used worldwide in varying sizes. They have a five-year shelf life. A package of thirty costs about ten dollars and will purify sixty quarts.
Website: aquatabs.com
Oasis Water Purification Tablets by Hydrachem contain NaDCC. They have a five-year shelf life, come in a variety of sizes, and cost about five cents to purify one quart.
Website: hydrachem.co.uk
Polar Pure Water Treatment is a lightweight, effective, and economical iodine purification treatment with indefinite shelf life. One bottle treats up to 2,000 gallons for about a penny a cup.
Website: polarpurewater.com
OPen by Roving Blue is a pocket water purifier that creates aqueous ozone to kill viruses, bacteria, and protozoa. It comes with rechargeable batteries and a USB cable and costs about $150.
Website: rovingblue.com
P&G Purifier of Water is a water purification technology that purifies dirty water using three processes: coagulation, flocculation, and disinfection.
Website: csdw.org
Aquamira makes several lines of water filters including the Water Basics Red Line Filter that removes viruses, bacteria, and parasites to EPA standards.
Website: aquamira.com
Berkey Water Filters makes several freestanding, gravity-fed water filters that eliminate virtually all bacteria and viruses as well as most inorganic substances from water. USA Berkey Filters has been offering these filters for over fifteen years.
Website: Usaberkeyfilters.com
Shelf Reliance makes fee-standing, front-loading can rotation systems. Large free-standing units cost around $500. Smaller units cost less than $50.
Website: thrivelife.com/all-products/shelving
FIFO Can Stacker is a can rotation system that sits on existing shelves and accommodates a variety of can sizes. The units cost from $30 to $40.
Website: foodstorage.com Also available from national retailers.
JarBOX is a plastic storage container for pint- and quart-size canning jars. Each JarBOX securely holds a dozen jars and can be used for storage or transport. They are stackable to consolidate canning jars.
Available from national retailers.
USA Emergency Supply offers quality Mylar bags manufactured to their specifications. The bags come in a wide range of sizes, from pint to six-gallon. They also sell oxygen absorbers and other food storage buckets.
Website: usaemergencysupply.com
Pack Fresh USA specializes in oxygen-free storage environments and high-quality barrier film.
Website: packfreshusa.com
House of Cans specializes in containers for a variety of uses and offers a large selection of cans for home processing.
Website: houseofcans.com
Wells Can Company offers metal cans and sealers, including the All-American Senior Flywheel Can Sealer and the Ives-Way Can Sealer. They also offer vacuum sealers and supplies, home pressure canners and jars, and even beekeeping supplies and equipment.
Website: wellscans.ca
Rainy Day Foods specializes in products for home food storage and emergency preparedness. They have an excellent selection of grains, legumes, dehydrated and freeze-dried foods, and preparedness tools and equipment. You will have to pay for shipping, but definitely check them out. Located in Montpelier, Idaho, they will also sell directly from their warehouse.
Website: rainydayfoods.com
Pleasant Hill Grain offers a full range of grains, legumes, and other food storage products. They excel in the number of different kinds of food processing equipment they offer, including grain mills and heavy-duty bread mixers.
Website: pleasanthillgrain.com
Honeyville is an online store specializing in whole grains, seeds, dehydrated and freeze-dried foods, and baking products. They offer a complete line of preparedness and food storage items, including gluten-free alternatives.
Website: honeyville.com
USA Emergency Supply sells food storage, emergency supplies, survival kits, and dehydrated foods online. This company’s information center offers thorough, best-practice advice about self-reliance, preparedness, and food storage topics, including packaging your own food storage.
Website: usaemergencysupply.com
Home Storage Centers, run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, offer wheat, dry beans, rice, powdered milk, and other commodities that have been prepackaged for long-term storage. Though the products are limited to about twenty basic food items, they are very reasonably priced and can be purchased online or in person at a center.
Website: providentliving.churchofjesuschrist.org
Mountain House specializes in freeze-dried foods and offers individual entrées as well as emergency food supplies. Their products are available direct or from sporting goods stores and emergency preparedness retailers.
Website: mountainhouse.com
Emergency Essentials is an online store that sells individual dehydrated and freeze-dried foods as well as other preparedness and emergency items. They also have a good selection of blog posts about emergency and home preparedness.
Website: beprepared.com
Old Ways Whole Grain Council is an organization that supports the use of whole-grain products and offers a list of places to purchase organic whole grains.
Website: wholegrainscouncil.org
Bluegrass Dairy and Food specializes in powdered dairy products, including a diverse selection of cheese powders. They are sold in fifty-pound quantities, which would be good for a co-op.
Website: bluegrassdairy.com
Firehouse Pantry is an online store selling unique ingredients including gourmet mixes, popcorn seasonings, BBQ rubs, herbs & spices, and cheese powders.
Website: firehousepantrystore.com
Ankarsrum is a quality Swedish-made mixer with unique features like self-adjusting speed control and a timer. It has a nice assortment of optional accessories.
Website: ankarsrumoriginalusa.com
Blendtec is known for their powerful blenders, however they also build a high-powered grain mill and heavy-duty mixer.
Website: blendtec.com
Nutrimill offers grain mills, Bosch mixers, and L’Equip food prep appliances. They have two styles of mills: one style grinds using a “microburst” milling heads, and one style uses corundum milling stones.
Website: nutrimill.com
Wondermill makes a high-powered micronizing grain mill and the efficient Wonder Junior handmill. They also manufacture the WonderMix, a heavy-duty kitchen mixer.
Website: thewondermill.com
Lehman’s is a hardware store in Kidron, Ohio. They specialize in practical goods that will help meet many preparedness needs. They carry several brands of hand-cranked grain mills, including Diamant, Country Living, and Leman’s Own Hand-Cranked grain mill. They have unique nineteenth-century-style kitchen tools like Lehman’s Dazey Butter Churn, and oil lamps.
Website: lehmans.com
New England Cheese Making Supply Company offers supplies and equipment for cheese making along with workshops and advice for beginner through expert cheese-makers.
Website: cheesemaking.com
Breadtopia is all about helping folks make great bread. Along with offering recipes, an information-packed blog, and video tutorials, they sell bread-making supplies and specialized tools and equipment.
Website: breadtopia.com
King Arthur is known for high-quality baking flour. They also offer recipes, tutorials, and baking classes as well as a complete line of baking tools and equipment.
Website: kingarthurflower.com
Marcato makes a line of classic manual pasta machines, including the Marga Mulino Oat Flaker and the Atlas 150 Pasta Machine..
Website: marcato.it
True Leaf Market offers garden seeds along with seeds specifically for microgreens and sprouting as well as the supplies needed to grow them. They also sell garden seeds packaged for storage.
Website: trueleafmarket.com
Masontops supplies assorted lids and kits for sprouting and other Mason jar accessories.
Website: masontops.com
Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds specializes in organic, non-GMO sprouting seeds. They are a great resource and offer books and online information about sprouting.
Website: www.sprouting.com
Sprout House is dedicated to sprouts and provides organic sprouting seeds, sprouters, and sprouting supplies.
Website: www.sprouthouse.com
Sprout People promotes the health benefits of growing sprouts and microgreens and sells a large variety of seeds and unique seed combinations. They also offer sprouters and sprouting equipment.
Website: sproutpeople.org
VKP Brands sells the Model 250 Food Strainer (formerly called Victorio Strainer) as well as other canning equipment, including water bath, steam, and pressure canners.
Website: vkpbrands.com
All American makes high-quality pressure canners and other canning tools and supplies.
Website: allamericancanner.com
Tattler produces a three-part, reusable canning lid. Sold in boxes of 12
Website: reusablecanninglids.com
Food Saver makes food vacuum sealers and sells vacuum bags, containers, and supplies.
Website: foodsaver.com
Cuisinart Food Dehydrator makes a compact vertical dehydrator with five stacking trays.
Website: cuisinart.com
Excalibur makes several top-rated, horizontal-style food dehydrators. Models come with four to ten drying trays.
Website: excaliburdehydrator.com
Nesco Dehydrators have a vertical-stacking design, ideal for fruits, vegetables, and jerky. Some models have fruit roll-up trays.
Website: nesco.com
The Harvest Right Freeze Dryer preserves both fresh and prepared foods. It comes in three different sizes.
Website: harvestright.com
Thorfire makes a compact, hand-crank, solar-powered flashlight small enough to fit in a pocket.
Website: thorfiredirect.com
Cyalume makes emergency light sticks in a variety of colors, manufactured in USA.
Website: getcyalume.com
UV Paqlite Glow Lights are a reusable, reliable light source that recharges in light and has a variety of applications.
Website: uvpaqlite.com
Mpowerd creates sustainable, thoughtfully designed products including the Luci inflatable solar light and the Luci Core task light.
Website: mpowerd.com
Primus makes camping and backpacking stoves and other outdoor gear which have crisis preparedness applications.
Website: primus.us
Vargo Stoves are durable, efficient, simple to use, and ideal for crisis preparedness applications.
Website: vargooutdoors.com
Water-Jel Technologies makes blankets along with burn wraps, burn dressings, and analgesics for burn first-aid.
Website: waterjel.com
QuickSafes offers an in-plain-sight hiding places that look like ordinary shelves or heating vents.
Website: quicksafes.com
North x North makes comfortable, versatile, protective merino wool scarves.
Website: northxnorth.co
Coolibar makes UPF 50+ clothing, including hats, scarves, tops, bottoms, and jackets.
Website: coolibar.com
Lehman’s, mentioned in an earlier section, also has a wide selection of wood stoves and cook stoves and other non-electric appliances.
Website: lehmans.com
Obadiah’s Woodstoves sells a large selection of top-quality wood stoves, wood boilers, and wood cook stoves.
Website: woodstoves.net
Unique Off Grid Appliances specializes in both propane and solar-powered off-grid appliances.
Website: uniqueoffgrid.com
Camp Chef manufactures heavy-duty outdoor cookers.
Website:www.campchef.com
Solo Stoves offers innovative personal and group cooking stoves with efficient use of various fuels—e.g., twigs, pine cones, sticks. They come in a range of sizes, from small personal backpack stoves to large-group firepits.
Website: solostove.com
Sierra Zip Stoves are lightweight titanium and use twigs and small pieces of wood for fuel.
Website: zzstove.com
The All American Sun Oven bakes, boils, or steams food and will pasteurize water. These stoves have a sturdy construction and are compact enough to fit into a small suitcase.
Website: sunoven.com
The GoSun Solar Cooker has a unique cylinder design using vacuum tubes. Highly concentrated sun energy cooks foods very quickly. Works in partial sun.
Website: gosun.co
Aladdin Kerosene Lamps are the quintessential kerosene lamps, come in several styles, and are convertible to electricity.
Website: aladdinlamps.com
The Ivation Hand Crank Camping Lantern includes a phone charger, radio, SOS siren, and flashlight.
Website: ivationproducts.com
The Advanced Elements Summer Solar Shower heats from three to five gallons of water in the sun for a hot shower.
Website: advancedelements.com
The Zodi portable propane shower is a self-contained unit with a stainless-steel burner and battery-powered water pump.
Website: zodi.com
The ExploSafe Jerry Can, filled with aluminum mash, stores gasoline and other fuels safely. Sold by various online stores.
SunJack makes portable and mountable solar panels, chargers that power USB devices like phones, tablets, lights, etc.
Website: sunjack.com
GoalZero Solar makes AC and USB power banks, solar chargers, portable and mountable solar panels, and a variety of solar appliances.
Website: goalzero.com
Point Zero Energy specializes in solar powered backup systems.
Website: pointzeroenergy.com
Home Biogas makes a small bio digester that converts bio waste into methane gas that is used to fuel a small cooking stove.
Website: homebiogas.com
Reliance Sanitation Products makes Double Duty Toilet Waste Bags, Bio-Blue Toilet Deodorant Chemicals, and Bio-Gel Waste Gelation for emergency sanitation situations.
Website: relianceoutdoors.com
Peepoople is primarily a humanitarian organization that makes individual disposable toilets.
Website: peepoople.com
Morris Mule Trailer Company does its best to make simple, yet strong and functional trailers for both trail and field.
Website: morrismule.com
The Xventure line of off-road trailers are built to military standards by Schutt industries.
Website: schuttindustries.com
Rungu Bikes makes a two-wheels-in-front, all-terrain e-bike designed for stability and control.
Website: riderungu.com
Polymule is an all-terrain utility handcart with uphill assist and designed for heavy-duty portability.
Website: polymule.com
Brownells carries a wide selection of firearms tool kits along with a tremendous parts inventory for firearms.
Website: www.brownells.com