(For our regular readers, I’m sorry you’ve heard so little from me of late. Work got extra tricky while we were dealing with the pandemic disruptions, and I just didn’t have the mental energy. I hope you’ve all been getting… Continue Reading
Survival Seed Kits are a popular prepper item. Theory of use is straightforward: You buy one kit of heirloom seeds and store it, either room temp or frozen, until needed. Then you whip it out, plant the seeds, and you’re… Continue Reading
Here I am, about to go slice up some zucchini to dehydrate and contemplating what of my summer garden should now be cleaned up. The two are related. If I want zucchini next year too (and I do), I need… Continue Reading
Growing food also means fighting for it. You may or may not have trouble with humans who want to “share”, but you will absolutely have insects trying to burrow into your foods. Salty and I don’t use manufactured pesticides, which… Continue Reading
It’s been wet in northeast Missouri this spring. Very wet. I drive past lakes that are supposed to be cornfields, and listen to the woes of my gardening friends who planted in lowlands. Planted three times this spring, after two… Continue Reading
The preparations to supply yourself with this lovely food source started years ago when you planted the cherry tree. Yesterday the tree was red and laden with nearly perfect fruit. You approach, bucket and ladder in hand….and find a tree… Continue Reading
Salty and I have a rural bug-out location (BOL) and weekend hangout. We’ve been developing it a bit at a time for years. The first thing we did was put in a pond. The next thing that happened was erosion… Continue Reading
Perennial food production is a wonderful prep. You can put in the work now and have food show up reliably into the foreseeable future. Fruit trees are a great example. Not only do they provide high quality food come good… Continue Reading
Perennial plants are a prepper’s best friend. You can put them in when you have the time, resources, and convenient shopping options. Then with minimal additional effort on your part, the food shows up year after year. Delivery trucks not… Continue Reading
First, No Planting of Gorillas in any sense! They’re very nifty organisms and quite endangered, plus as strong as four of you, so just leave ’em alone, ok? Also, in no way about humans engaging in unconventional warfare. Guerrilla planting… Continue Reading
You get fired up, dive into a project, make great progress, but can’t quite finish it up right away. That last little bit though…it seems to hang over you forever, not quite getting to the finish line. Or maybe it’s… Continue Reading
If you garden, you’ve probably lost some crop to insects. If you don’t garden but have some seeds among your preps, you *will* lose crop to insects once you plant those seeds. Best be well prepared, you’ll lose most or… Continue Reading
Prepping is insurance. You pay now — in money, time, and effort. You hope you won’t need most of what you paid for. How about a prep you put most of the work in up front, but it continues to… Continue Reading
Home food production is one of the most versatile preps. It serves every situation from ‘money’s tight’ to ‘there’s no food that can be bought’. It also is a stealth prep and one that offers benefits even if there’s no… Continue Reading
Here’s a Catch-22 for the prepper: Many disasters might make it necessary to produce one’s own food to have all you need. Also, many disasters make it harder to produce food by their impacts on the weather. How can preppers… Continue Reading