Thousands of readers already own the first edition of Survival Illustrated. But you know what? We can make it even bigger, and even better.

We can get it into more hands.

That's the goal.

So, we're making a second edition. This guide offers something simple. It shows you all the skills you wish you'd learned when you were younger. It illustrates them with step-by-step instructions.  It gets right to the point. There's no nonsense. There's no "doom and gloom."

What this guide covers:

• 🍏 Food & Water: How to grow, preserve, and store food; how to harvest rainwater and build an atmospheric water generator.
• ⚡ Off-Grid Power: How to construct a backup power supply.
• 🪓 Wildcrafting: Practical foraging and herbal medicine.
• 🛠️ Everyday Repairs: How to patch clothes, fix a bicycle, and change a flat tire.
• 🩺 Emergency Preparedness: How to organize a medical kit, rig an emergency sanitation system, and pack a bugout bag.
• ❄️ Grid-Down Survival: Real-world steps to survive an extreme heatwave or winter storm when the grid goes down.

To get all of this knowledge, you would need more than a hundred different guides. We know because we read them. And we still had to figure things out. We still had to test new methods and new survival strategies.

We illustrate every single skill with step-by-step instructions. We render the artwork in Blender, then we do the layout in Adobe InDesign.

Then we give it all to you.

This guide is not for wannabe survivalists who fantasize about bugging out to a cabin in the woods or a bunker ranch when things go bad. It's for everyone else: homeowners, renters, community stewards, in the suburbs or downtown. No matter where you are, you're going to find something useful in this guide. If there were only one guide to pack in a bag that contains the condensed knowledge from a hundred guides, tested by a whole community of survivors, then this is it.

The online version of the guide is free and open-source, in a compressed PDF hosted on Jessica's newsletter, Grounded. 

This guide grew out of conversations between readers of a newsletter with 20,000 subscribers. They took each section and tried it. Now we're expanding this 200-page guide to 300-350 pages for the second edition. (Update: We're currently at 300+ pages!)

It's going to be a lot of work.

We're already doing it.

How you can support our work:

Backer: $9, includes a shout-out in the acknowledgments.

Survivor: $19, includes a press-quality PDF emailed to you,
plus a shout-out in the acknowledgements.

Guardian: $49, includes an invitation to our online newsletter and community, plus a shout-out and a press-quality PDF.

Homestander: $79, a physical, coil-bound copy sent to you. Just the book, because that's all you need.

Champion: $99, includes a physical, coil-bound copy sent to you, plus everything else.

We're glad you're here,

Jessica