Because of moms stories, and her warning that it could easily happen again, I became as self sufficient as possible after we bought our home years ago. I've been working on gaining knowledge ever since then. I planted fruits, nuts, syrup trees, and firewood. We've also planted fruit bushes, culinary and medicinal herbs. We bought heirloom vegetable seeds we use every year. We have a hand pump if the electric is lost, and a rain water storage tanks.
There's also soap making from ash and fat, deer skin from ash and brains, brain pelting, rocket stoves for heating and cooking (and a large wood stove for bigger pieces if we can haul and chop them with a tree saw), making and using cobb, learned what weeds are edible, and how to spin fibers.
Oh, and we're bee keepers for wax, propulous, and honey.
I studied solar to save on fire wood and tricks to stay cool. We've also built a root cellar in the basement.
I suppose if we missed anything, we could barter. If there's something new to learn, I'm all over it!
Because of Obomanomics, we're working overtime to make sure we have all we need and how we can hide it ( We have kids).
This time, the depression is going to be worse, because back during the last depression, they didn't have the entitlement parasites to deal with. They'll still want everything for free. They're going to be stealing it (so stay armed).
“My mother used to tell me stories of the depression when I was little.”
It was far, far worse in Germany in the late 20’s/early 30’s, where my grandparents came from.
I have a deep water well (over 100 feet deep) that I just put a hand pump on, water seems ok but there are a lot of suspended solids in it. Any idea on how to get those out of the water? My plan right now is to let the water sit in a primary fermenter for a few days. I think that would work but something quicker would be nice. Can’t really afford an expensive filtration system.