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I'm posting this purely for educational purposes.
I pray every day that the day we need this skill won’t come. -
Growing Sweet Potatoes For the Home Victory Garden
Before I fenced my garden in sweet potatoes were one of the first things to go. The leaves and vines are 30% protein and deer do love them. Okra was also a favorite. -
Growing Sweet Potatoes For the Home Victory Garden
Started growing my slips out in the green house this past week. -
COLD WEATHER “minimum kit”
Most of these people that died probably did so less than a mile from help. If your intent is just to survive getting home in cold weather. Leave the house appropriately dressed. Have sturdy shoes, boots, coat, blanket it the car. Have a working flashlight and another working flashlight for when... -
Generator Thread ....When the power goes out...
if These are concerns, by all means spend the dollars and be comfortable. As I stated, everyone has a different situation. I would personally rather cut the water, drain the pipes, throw my wife and dog in the car and buy a new African violet than pay $10k for a generator and fuel if those were... -
Generator Thread ....When the power goes out...
We have a couple of small generators we have accumulated along the way. When power is out we use them to run the freezers and refrigerators and the battery backup for the phones and internet. We heat with wood, which influences my thinking on the subject a bit. -
Generator Thread ....When the power goes out...
When you calculate the cost of operating one of these along with initial cost, over several days you might find it cheaper to just throw away whatever is in the freezer/fridge and stay in a motel for the duration of the outage. Everyone is in a different situation. It just didn’t add up for us... -
In doubt of 9mm being best for prepping
Dang. Where did you find a .41 mag rifle that you didn’t have to mortgage your house to buy? -
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Are you a PREPPER?
Always liked the Simon and Garfunkel version until I heard this one. Way better. -
Dick Proenneke lives alone in the Alaskan Wilderness
This guy had serious skills. Both as an outdoorsman and a cinematographer. -
Preparedness checklist?
Being realistic is quite different from being negative. We produced about 60% of what we consumed this year. Gave away probably another 250-300 pounds of various produce. We produce adequate protein in the form of catfish To sustain and live in a rural enough environment to hunt or barter for... -
Preparedness checklist?
We have largely lost the knowledge, social skills, fitness level, immune systems and attitude necessary for survival in a primitive, hostile environment. People survive largely in primitive cultures by banding together , policing their own ranks, cooperating in food production, water sourcing... -
Water filters for survival
Not a pump but the British Berkey is a good option. -
Security will kill their employees
WROL is probably a better descriptive than SHTF. Enforcement of employment contracts will not be so much a thing. Cooperation based on mutual necessity will be. Good time to have skills. Good time to have resources, if you have skills. -
It’s getting close to the survival section to be the hottest section on here
When I was 6 I was pretty well convinced I was going to either live out my life in the local bowling alley, which doubled as the fallout shelter in our town, existing on whatever was in those 55 gallon drums with the civil defense logo on them, or die in the hall of my school along with my... -
Growing Sweet Potatoes For the Home Victory Garden
they love them, the foliage is over 30% protein. I quit planting them til I got a deer proof fence. -
Growing Sweet Potatoes For the Home Victory Garden
Was very happy with the ones I bought from them. Have been starting my own slips from the slips I bought there for several years. -
One pot soup. Trial results.
Starvation isn’t the worst thing, apparently, that can happen to a man. -
Growing Sweet Potatoes For the Home Victory Garden
I put a bag of black cow composted cow manure in a black plastic basket like wholesale produce venders use (I lined them in cardboard to better hold the soil) and buried the cull sweet potatoes in there. Keep well watered but not to the point of sogginess. I believe less water more frequently...