Working on it. One new skill at a time :)
Book link for you: 52 Prepper Projects [One a week for a year, toward greater/better self-sufficiency]
Yup, Amazon's got it too.
Posted on 04/14/2015 7:28:54 PM PDT by Kartographer
Bad Strategy #1: “I’ll just hunt and live off the land.”
Bad Strategy #2: “I’ll go into the woods and live there.”
Bad Strategy #3: “I’ll bug out on foot for 73 miles through the mountains, even though I don’t regularly exercise.”
Bad Strategy #4: “I don’t need a group. I’m going to go it alone.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #5: “I don’t need to store food, I’ll just take everyone else’s because I’m a bad-ass.”
Bad Strategy #7: “I don’t store food. I store seeds.”
Bad Strategy #8: “I’ll just run a generator and continue on like nothing ever happened.”
Bad Strategy #9: “I’ll just use my fireplace for cooking and heating.”
Bad Strategy #10: “I’m going to hunker down in the city and scavenge what I need.”
Bad Strategy #11: “I’ve got my supplies, and now I don’t need to think about gloom and doom.”
Bad Strategy #12: We’ll set up a perimeter and shoot anyone who breaches it.
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I'd like to think I could, and I've certainly been practicing. From knitting (my next project is to learn to process wool from sheep to scarf) to tanning animal hides, preserving foods using natural methods, growing my own food (and tobacco! :) to the honey wine I have brewing and the primitive weapons methods I've been working on and more. I've got a helluva lot more to learn, but I make sure to practice each skill set I do learn. I get a lot of strange looks from people these days. I don't really care.
So keep on practicing, and ignore the funny looks. You got skills. One thing that can never be taken from you.
/johnny
I'm more of a "Junkyard Wars" kind of guy than a "mountain man", but I figure that's got to be worth something if the SHTF.
No-one knows what will happen. Anyone telling you that they know for sure is spreading false prophecy.
Keep going on learning those skills. And ignore the idiots.
/johnny
You should look into your view, is is an inaccurate view with inaccurate information.
#6 - You don’t even want to know!!! ;-P
Number 5 is twice as important, first because desperate unprepared individuals may resort to such considerations.
The second reason, proving the value of a repeat of #5, Is that armed criminal gangs- sometimes known as *governments* who are equally desperate and unprepared may get the same idea, but as a first resort rather than a last one.
Let me know if you find a place that's a gas tank away from an interstate. I reckon there might be some such in Alaska.
So how long do you think the gas is going to hold out?
I agree. One size does not fit all. I don’t consider myself a pepper, but I have raised a passel of kids on a farm with little to no income. My basic premise is that people can get by with a lot less than they think.
I have raised a passel of kids on a farm with little to no income
I’d say you’re set. Don’t worry about it.
Working on it. One new skill at a time :)
Book link for you: 52 Prepper Projects [One a week for a year, toward greater/better self-sufficiency]
Yup, Amazon's got it too.
Once the moochers and gangstas mob up and head out of the urban core in large Wolf Packs it's going to be tough for any of us they can find.
I agree. You should have fruit and nut trees and gardens already in place. We are currently experimenting with container and raised bed gardening.
I am experimenting this year with potatoes in 5 gallon buckets. So far two weeks in my potato plants look great. My sister is working a 30 gallon potato container. I do tomatoes in containers also. I get a larger tomato and much better yield.
My Mom and have made butter and cheese from scratch. I have perfected my bread making skills so that Mr. GG2 no longer wants the store bought stuff. I need to work on the sourdough starter though.
Mr. GG2 has been experimenting with essential oils and has a face cream and a lip balm to die for. That’s all I use anymore. He also has salves for pain and sleep that work well.
As soon as we move permanently to the mountain place we are getting the chickens and a couple of small goats. I think that is about as much as we think we can handle by ourselves.
Nutritionally, you are correct. A person wouldn’t last long on 1000 calories per day. The rest I would argue.
Clearly, you've never heard my clever ripostes.
You get to be one of the *village elders* who will be around to pass along some, hopefully much, of the knowledge that you've picked up the hard way, to some of the young, who will likely be in a less fortunate position than you were about surviving even small mistakes.
Note very carefully that I said *village elders* and not Village People. No sense leading the young'uns down paths that lead to disco balls and polyester bellbottoms.
So have the railroaders, BNSF in particular. Including some loads a bit too long/wide/heavy for other than very specialized semitrailers.
Why would there be plenty of food?
A lot of places in New Mexico a tank away from the interstate, but you wouldn’t want to live in any of them.
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