Are you prepared? Trying to be more self sufficient

Yep. And how many people that made it through never changed their lifestyle afterwards?

 

I have a life straw that I carry in my hunting/hiking kit, but for larger volumes of potable water around the house one of these is on my short list to make:
Build DIY 5-Gallon Berkey Water Purification System - YouTube

 

The Light of Civilization N Hagger (Not Light Reading)
Rise And Fall of Civilization N Hagger (Not Light Reading)
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

Since you said create a new civilization

If I wanted survival information
Complete Book of Self Sufficiency J Seymour
Country Living C Emery
The Survival Medicine J Alton MD

If a book Series can count as 1 , The Fox Fire Series all eleven volumes :}

If you want to get an insight on how things might go when things go pear shaped I highly recommend
Grid Down: Death of a Nation: The Psychology and Physiology of: Human Desperation, Starvation, and Living Without Rule of Law through a Prolonged Grid Down Scenario Paperback – September 8, 2023
by Jonathan Hollerman (Author)

DEFINITELY NOT LIGHT READING

 

I would think events like that would make folks realize the importance of being prepared but perhaps I give people too much credit

 

You’re going to need a wheelbarrow to carry all your books into the future.

 

If the masses were capable of that, then I don't think we would have so many pages in this thread...

 

True sadly true but true

 

Heh, I was stationed in NYC during the Sandy response. A little hiking solar panel kept the some lanterns on, and my pad (thankfully) had running water and gas. Ended up doing a bunch of grilling with our neighbors on the rooftop grill of all the stuff that was going bad, though. Work had food and FEMA supplied fuel for the generators.

 

Sorry not been on here much. We have been getting our oldest daughter ready to move and we decided to take the dive down a rather deep rabbit hole.
We are at that point in life trying to kinda get rid of stuff and streamline things a bit. We decided to expand our pantry and relocate part basically splitting it into 2. Quite a bit of work reorganizing and cataloging everything

 

Garden is thriving with all this rain. I need to till again and finish planting.
Tomatoes look great


peppers doing good have 4 more to plant


this pop of sun made my first row of beans spring up


all part of the process I guess some will get canned, some dehydrated, some frozen. At least with this we know exactly what we have. Helps building up food for the winter

 

Possible freeze tonight and tomorrow night, so we will be covering tomatoes. We've already lost the first planting even though they were covered.

 

Thankfully by Mother’s Day we are past that

 

Similar here

 

I haven’t planted beans in years. Being diabetic I’m trying to store more veggies so I’d like to can a bunch

 

Wife has been busy last few days canning beans. They look really good.

 

Out of the garden or dried beans?

 

Just dried pinto and black beans, we are gonna plant some green beans in june

 

Yeah, that's what we say here too. Still gonna freeze tonight and the next. Old sayings are great until they're wrong.

 

We used to plant earlier and idk how many times the garden was turned into a tent city trying to save the plants. So far, Morhers day has been a pretty safe bet.

 

Yup... and it's not safe tonight or the next.