The BeaglePrep Blog

PRACTICAL PREP, ONE POST AT A TIME

• JULY 2, 2026

  Water storage that stays drinkable: containers, amounts, rotation

  One gallon per person per day, food-grade containers, and the 6-month rotation habit that keeps stored water worth drinking.

• JULY 2, 2026

  How to inventory home-canned goods (no more mystery jars)

  Label the lid, log the batch, rotate oldest first. A five-minutes-per-batch system for tracking a canning season.

• JULY 2, 2026

  The best prepper inventory apps in 2026, compared by a competitor

  Prep & Pantry, PPantry, Pantry Check, the spreadsheet, and BeaglePrep, compared honestly. We make one of them; the bias is labeled.

• JULY 2, 2026

  What actually goes in a 72-hour kit

  Water, no-cook food, light, heat, meds, and documents for a three-day outage, plus the twice-a-year rotation habit that keeps the kit usable.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  The mushrooms I actually forage in Wisconsin

  The five mushrooms I actually pick — oyster, honey, aspen, pheasant back, and reishi — where I find them, and how we dry them for winter soups.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  Bending a 2V geodesic dome out of EMT conduit

  Building a 2V dome from 3/4-inch electrical conduit for a shelter at camp: running the numbers, fabricating struts, a living-room test fit, and the raise.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  Building a 16×16 platform for the dome

  Before a geodesic dome could go up at camp, it needed a flat dry base. The 16×16 pressure-treated platform I built solo on concrete piers, an hour north of Crivitz.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  Spring foraging in Wisconsin: ramps and pheasant back

  A late-May walk in a friend's woods outside the city — ramps and pheasant back mushrooms, and how we dried the greens and pickled the bulbs to keep them.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  Inventory Wolf shut down? Here's the best replacement.

  If your prepper inventory lived in Inventory Wolf, here's what to look for in a replacement app — and why BeaglePrep is the closest like-for-like fit.

• JUNE 30, 2026

  How much food storage do you actually need (per person, per day)?

  A simple way to turn "I should stock up" into a real number — calories and water per person, per day — and how to check where you stand.