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What are you doing to prepare?

Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance

Are you truly independent? Do you have the skills? Can you hunt, grow a garden, can food, sew-knit, live off the land? Are you ready? Do you possess the "lost" skills? Our family is ready. In obama's words, "bring it on". Once the economy collapses, I'll be here longer than the liberals and their pampered lives.


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: crash; economy; lping; prep; preparedness; preppers; prepping; shtf; survival; teotwawki; trends; unrest; vanity
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To: djf
Dried goods also.

Yep, don't need a garden....Just canned food, dried food and water....

281 posted on 04/03/2010 11:43:03 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

Don’t get me wrong, doesn’t hurt to have 50lbs of taters in the ground.

But the folks who think they can in a week or two grow a garden salad and that’s enough to keep them going for a month are plain crazy.

For one thing, most veggies are very low on the protein scale.

Invest in 100 lbs of rice and seal it up!

Another thing is that many veggies we grow for the roots have edible greens. Beet greens are way up there on the vitamin and nutrition scale. Radish and carrot greens are quite edible. And don’t forget the dandelions!


282 posted on 04/03/2010 11:56:39 AM PDT by djf
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To: djf

Gardens are fine, but when it comes to real survival, in real bad times, can food and water is king.

It’s can keep armies fighting and surviving for a period of *years*.


283 posted on 04/03/2010 12:37:20 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: GregoTX
I am with you on that. I am in the process of converting my boat to run on solar power. Except for gasoline, I should be off-grid in a year.

Still working on making flour though.

284 posted on 04/03/2010 12:46:28 PM PDT by redshawk
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To: Vendome
microwave only. wire meshing and all that. Google it. but forget the other ideas. Do they emit radiation or microwaves? No! then stick with the idea that make popcorn but doesn’t fry whoever is closest.

Omigosh. Such ignorance being propogated on FR. People, please stop telling people to use old microwaves for Faraday cages for EMP! I'm telling you this as an RF and microwave engineer with over 20 years experience. Just because you think microwave ovens don't "fry whoever is closest" with "radiation" (oh my, your Wifi which operates on the same freqs would be horrified) doesn't mean it's a good shield for the VERY WIDE band of frequencies emitted by an EMP bomb or even a solar event.

Please, just put stuff you want to protect in a closed metal box with a tight-fitting metal lid. No mesh, no open spaces, no nothing.

285 posted on 04/03/2010 12:46:31 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer ("It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." --Jefferson)
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To: Atom Smasher
The microwave can be plugged in for the test - just not "turned on"... You don't want hot - no pun intended. Also try this if you're buying used microwave ovens to keep radios - laptops etc in... anything with a chip will be protected.
286 posted on 04/03/2010 12:56:33 PM PDT by GOPJ (Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

You are the first person I have heard who has an opinion contrary to our folk lore.

As I understand it a microwave makes a very good faraday cage and simply putting your electronics in a box offers less protection.

In response to your post, I decided to test the hypothesis that radio waves will not travel through the microwave, which is a cage.

I had not done this before but since you are saying don’t:

I just put two cell phones, walkie talkie, radio and a couple of other gadgets in the microwave and not one of them accepted a signal.

If you have information that is more beneficial I and the other posters would be grateful for your help.


287 posted on 04/03/2010 1:04:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: dragnet2

I have easily 300 lbs of canned goods and about 20 of the 18 gallon rubbermaid thingies full of beans, rice, pasta, gravy mixes, pancake mixes, powdered milk, etc.

You name it, I probably got it!


288 posted on 04/03/2010 1:05:05 PM PDT by djf
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To: GOPJ

See the post above yours and mine, which is below yours.


289 posted on 04/03/2010 1:05:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: DelaWhere
You don’t have to buy the most expensive equipment, but a Victria mill will suffice along with a meat grinder and sausage stuffer

What brand names do you have? I've seen some down at the local farmer supply store... would like to know what you bought!

290 posted on 04/03/2010 1:12:17 PM PDT by JDoutrider (PLEASE HELP FREEPER JEFF HEAD: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2481989/posts)
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To: Indy Pendance

LOL Thanks!!! I love my readers!!!


291 posted on 04/03/2010 1:58:54 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (God to Obama: Don't think I'm not keepin' track. Brother.)
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To: dragnet2; All

And I should remind everybody that tomorrow is Easter.

That means that come Monday, a certain commodity will be cheaper than dirt!

Chocolate!!

All kinds and flavors. The deal is that chocolate is a good pick-me-up food and can be stored for years.


292 posted on 04/03/2010 2:00:46 PM PDT by djf
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To: buck61

http://www.soapmakingfun.com/making-homemade-soap.shtml

There are many other resources on the web, usually in forums you can find where to buy lye, NaOH (Sodium hydroxide), locally. there are many methods, I used to have some pdf’s, i’ll see if I can find them for you.


293 posted on 04/03/2010 3:46:41 PM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: ansel12

ping


294 posted on 04/03/2010 5:00:16 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Control the American people? Herding cats would be easier.)
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To: djf

“I was seriously thinking about buying a STEAM ENGINE!!!”

Steam engines are very expensive to purchase and maintain and not very efficient. Research wood-gas generation. If you have a good supply of wood it can keep you going for quite a while. Fairly simple to build one, nothing to maintain. Can power any gas engine.


295 posted on 04/03/2010 5:08:03 PM PDT by vanilla swirl (To argue witha person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead)
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To: ChocChipCookie

please add me to your survival ping list. pretty please. (was that nice enough? :)


296 posted on 04/03/2010 5:10:53 PM PDT by robomatik (III%)
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To: cyclotic

“some guy names Rawles.”

SurvivalBlog.com

one of the best preparedness websites


297 posted on 04/03/2010 5:11:12 PM PDT by vanilla swirl (To argue witha person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Better than that are the hand cranked lights. “

Most hand cranked lights/radios etc are garbage. Do you know of any really good quality units?


298 posted on 04/03/2010 5:29:29 PM PDT by vanilla swirl (To argue witha person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead)
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To: JDoutrider

Well HI JD...

I just have a #10 generic (Sportsman brand)grinder that came with two different size grind plates (3/8 one works great for chili meat) and it has three different stuffer tubes. I think I paid $39 for it at Tractor Supply a couple of years ago. Takes a bit of cranking, but I have managed to put 5 deer through it.

How are things in the ‘Gulch’?


299 posted on 04/03/2010 5:48:12 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared a year too early than a day too late.)
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To: djf

More info on buying antibiotics from farming supply please!


300 posted on 04/03/2010 7:03:08 PM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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