Interesting article. Nice skills to have.
I am not a farmer, soldier, or Master Gardener. However, between me, my husband and other family members, we do have many skill sets.
We also can’t practically bug out, but since we are in a rural area, we stand a good chance of being able to shelter in place. So that’s primarily what we concentrate on.
Shelter, water, food, security, medical, and hygiene are the things that we have concentrated on. We try to have redundancy of at least 3.
For example we have stockpiled 25 gallons of bottled water. The hot water heater holds 55 gallons. We have a well, and a generator to run the pump. We have a swimming pool holding 4000 gallons which can be made drinkable, and several rain barrels. Of course we have filters, portable filters, and bleach, and water treatment tablets.
We have also learned to garden. We also know that we need to plant 60% of our crop in food crops that have a high amount of mass left for compost. Like Corn, wheat, alfalfa, rye etc. No need to buy fertilizer if you know how to make your own compost, and there’s lots of books that tell how to do it.
We have learned a lot, and have lots left to learn and do for each of the main aspects of preparing for emergencies - especially those of longer term, and with out some or all modern conveniences.
None of us are welders, but we know some around our area.
You know that you can also lower a bucket into the well if you run out of fuel for the generator.
“None of us are welders, but we know some around our area.”
Get yourself a nice little 120 volt flux-core wire feeder machine for about 250-350 dollars and learn in about 2 hrs.
I have a pretty good idea where you live and you live in a bug out place. By the way. I have a friend who lives in your area that is a “prepper” of sorts who has a farm (big turkey operation).By the way he is a welder too.
Welding is a no brainer, it’s the equipment that would be the problem for most people.