About Grid & Hearth
Grid & Hearth started with a simple question: why is it so hard to find a calm, honest recommendation for preparedness gear — one that isn't selling fear?
We cover home readiness: water security, food storage, backup power, Faraday protection, gas masks, and go-bags. No doomsday hype, no staged survival theater — just research, specs, certifications, and straight answers about what's worth your money.
When we've handled a product ourselves, we say so. When a verdict is built from deep aggregated research, we say that too. That transparency is spelled out on our How We Research page.
Some links on this site are affiliate links — that's how the project sustains itself. It never changes a product's score: our affiliate disclosure explains exactly how it works.
Who runs Grid & Hearth
Home Readiness Editor & Founder
Heather Wisecarver spent 12+ years in distribution logistics and business continuity before founding Grid & Hearth. She reviews emergency gear the boring, reliable way: verifying certifications, tracking recalls, and cross-checking thousands of owner reviews — then telling you who each product is really for.
What she covers emergency water storage and filtration, long-term food storage, Faraday and EMP protection, CBRN respirators and gas masks (NIOSH / EN 14387), NSF/ANSI water standards, product recalls, family emergency preparedness
Editorial contact Questions, corrections, and review requests go straight to her at heather@gridandhearth.com. Corrections are welcome, and we update articles when a spec, a certification, or a recall changes.