Practical preparedness, done properly.
A shop for real kits, gear, and refurbished privacy-hardened tech, hands-on public events (workshops, hackathons, a full residential Academy), a members club, and on-site training for companies — all built around what actually happens in an emergency, not a checklist copied from somewhere else.
Everything prepping.club offers
Shop
Backpack kits, the prepping manual, and refurbished security phones, laptops, and homeservers.
Challenges
Real scenarios — natural and digital — with what matters most in each, by season or category.
Resources
Free guides to the operating systems and self-hosted software behind everything we sell.
Events
Public workshops, hackathons, and meetups — see what's coming up.
Training for companies
On-site or remote emergency-preparedness training for your team.
Club
Membership — priority booking, discounts, an ongoing community, and optional Pro access to club hardware and AI tools.
From the shop
A look at what's on offer
Security Phones
Refurbished, pre-flashed with SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch, GrapheneOS, or PostmarketOS.
Security Laptops
Refurbished ThinkPads, Dell, and MacBooks, reflashed with NixOS, FreeBSD, Fedora, or Arch.
Prepping Backpack Kit
A pre-assembled 72-hour bag, built to a checklist, not guessed at.
USB Sticks
A single Live OS, or a Ventoy multi-boot stick with several at once.
Eleven products in total, kits and tech alike. See the full shop.
Why prepping.club
What actually makes this different
Reflashed, not just resold
Refurbished phones and laptops come pre-flashed with a real privacy/security OS — SailfishOS, GrapheneOS, NixOS, and more — not a wiped stock image with an app on top.
A real person reviews everything
No bots, no automated checkout. Orders, membership applications, and even challenge submissions all get looked at by an actual person before anything happens.
We run what we sell
This site's own infrastructure runs on NixOS, with Nextcloud, Redmine, and Syncthing behind it — the same open, self-hosted tools covered in our resources.
Built by the people who use it
Challenges are contributed by club and community members, not written top-down — see how to add your own.
For members
Build real solutions, don't just read about them
Membership isn't a newsletter — it's a way to actually work on the problems, with the tools and people to do it.
Build it at the Hackathon
Two days, real teams, a working prototype or concrete plan by the end — not slideware.
Find the right problem
16 real scenarios, filterable by season or category, so you're solving what's actually relevant to you.
Borrow real hardware to build on
Pro members can borrow club laptops and phones at events to build and test on the actual thing, not a mockup. Everyone else brings their own.
Know the basics
Why this matters
Every emergency is different, but the first ten minutes matter more than any amount of gear. A sample of what's covered — natural and digital alike:
Wildfire
What matters most when a vegetation fire threatens your area.
Flood
What matters most when water is rising near you.
Earthquake
What matters most in the seconds right after the ground starts shaking.
Winter storm / power outage
What matters most when the power's out and it's not coming back soon.
AI, scams, hacking, deep fakes, deep web
What matters most when you can't be sure who — or what — you're actually talking to.
Cybersecurity
What matters most when someone's trying to get into your accounts.
Global Warming
What matters most as it reshapes how often — and how badly — everything else on this list happens.
See the full list, and how these get worked hands-on at our events. See all challenges.