First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
- Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
- Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday SITREP. Also, the last PREP edition.
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HT SelfSufficientCommunity channel on Telegram. Ignore the prices as they’re well out of date, but it’s a good list for planning purposes. And related:
100 Items You Need, That DISAPPEAR FIRST During War – Granite Grok
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Top of the fold:
DEVELOPING: Deutsche Bank Stressed… Shares Tumble | The Gateway Pundit
It’s my opinion that this is the first few dominoes in a system that’s been artificial and propped up for so long, when it comes down it’s going to come down hard. Be warned. More:
“The Banks Are Melting”, And Signs Of A Major Credit Contraction Are Already Starting To Emerge
Financial Stability Oversight Council Releases ‘Nothingburger’ Statement | ZeroHedge
Hypothecation Equals $1.5 Quadrillion in Debt | NC Renegades
I really don’t want to be “gloom and doom” on this, but I fear that this will snowball.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
- What can you do well? In a SHTF situation, you cannot do everything well and will need a “tribe” of support.
- Seeds: Exchanges are necessary in any long-term effort to avoid inbreeding. Tracking of seed genetic combinations is also a good idea.
- I had just gotten another copy of this book, the ex-wife having taken the old one years ago, and remembered something about eating rabbit. Rabbit is a very lean meat if you don’t get other animal fat you can develop rabbit starvation.
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Oddly, not much hit me as worthy, though remember I’m still slammed work-wise so my time is less. But I did find this. Take heart – you are descended from survivors:
Here’s How I Know You’ll Survive This – The Organic Prepper
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Survival Archives – Skillset Magazine
Useful to browse through. For example:
How To Open A Can Without A Can Opener (skillsetmag.com)
How To Season A Cast Iron Pan: Dishwashers Are A No-No (skillsetmag.com)
I’ve told my family that if they put the cast iron in the dishwasher there will be hell to pay.
How To Escape Zip Ties: Without Chewing Through Your Wrists (skillsetmag.com)
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Related to Spicy Time:
People Change (it’s bad) During Economic Depression. Things You Should Do and Expect in SHTF
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Top 10 Vehicle Preps to Buy At AUTOZONE | The Urban Prepper (gab.com)
Video, about 10 minutes.
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Reality is cold, harsh, and tends to be uncooperative (coldfury.com)
Language. But spot-on. We underestimate the globalists and their Antifa minions at our peril. Remember, Antifa went and trained with al Qaeda. Related, and I’ve posted this before – understand what they have planned:
What the Progressive Socialist Liberals have in store for Conservatives (part 1) – Metallicman
A series not for the faint of heart – but KNOW YOUR ENEMY and what they’re planning / capable of. And a prescient warning from an American hero:
I brought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government: we become responsible then for administrating 250 million people. And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics, how you’re going to clothe and feed these people.
The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.
They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter revolution and they felt that this counter revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing reeducation centers in the Southwest where would take all the people who needed to be reeducated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.
I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate that are diehard capitalists and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate I mean kill – 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.”
This is an uncomfortable truth about the Left:
But then, Socialistopia always has this foundation:
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18 Urban and Wilderness Survival Hacks | The Art of Manliness
These actually look really useful! From the same site:
How to Suture a Wound | The Art of Manliness
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5 Safe and Effective Home Remedies for Head Lice in Children
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CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND AND PONDER
Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc. – my target is six months – puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
- When does it start?
- How bad will it get?
- How long will it last?
- What will the aftermath look like?
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
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Big Yellow Morel Mushrooms……hunt the Sycamore Duff Fluff in 2023
More mushroom videos (links only):
HOW TO GROW MOREL MUSHROOMS, SLURRY METHOD #morels #wildfood – YouTube
September Mushroom Foraging Course Highlights – YouTube
Shiitake Mushroom Harvest and Cultivation Tips | Southwest Mushrooms – YouTube
How To Grow Lion’s Mane Mushroom From Start To Finish – YouTube
7 Common Poisonous Mushrooms You Should Know – YouTube
16 Wild Edible Mushrooms You Can Forage This Autumn – YouTube
Chanterelle & Jack O’Lantern — Mushroom ID – YouTube
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Try Burdock Root… 3 Delicious Recipes!
Not foraging in terms of finding, but in terms of preparation.
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Stinging Nettle — The Most Nutritious Plant On Earth?
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When the weather is reliably above 50-55 degrees (F) I plan to start sowing my purslane, elderberry, and chokeberry seeds. And plant some Jerusalem artichoke bulbs.
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Other foraging videos, no sorting, links only:
Wild Food Foraging- Season 1 – YouTube
Wild Food Foraging- Season 2- Grape, Raspberry, Clover, Morel, Cedar, Ramps, Birch – YouTube
25 Edible Plants, Fruits and Trees for Wilderness Survival – YouTube
Wild Edible Plants With Alan Kay – YouTube
10 Wild Edible Greens to Harvest- Foraging Plants – YouTube
Five Common Backyard Wild Edibles – YouTube
Foraging For 3 Overlooked Wild Edible Fruits – YouTube
Is The Healthiest Part Of Dandelion Its Flower? – YouTube
3 Weeds You’re Probably Not Eating – YouTube
Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
US Cattle Inventory Forecast Falls To Lowest Level In Nearly A Decade: USDA | ZeroHedge
Beef prices are definitely going up! Also see my comments below towards the end.
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Retailer egg prices continue to rise amid ongoing shortages – FarmingUK News
So not just in the US.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
How to Start Your Own Meal Worm Farm to Feed Your Chickens (Part 1)
Related videos on mealworms, other larvae, and feeding your chickens in general (links only):
Feeding Our Chickens for FREE with Black Soldier Fly Larva (BSFL) – ProtaPod – YouTube
Update on the Mealworm Farm we started to Feed our Chickens (Part2) – YouTube
How to build a mealworm farm! – YouTube
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DIY HEALTHY HOMEMADE CHICKEN FEED – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – Moving Beetles In Your Mealworm Colony – YouTube
7 Hacks to Cut Your Chicken Feed Bill – YouTube
MEALWORM FARMING FOR BEGINNERS – How to Maintain a Healthy Mealworm Farm – YouTube
Here’s how I feed 2 million hungry worms with homemade worm chow and sprouted greens! – YouTube
What Kitchen Scraps Your Chickens Can And CANT Eat! Some Are Toxic For Chickens! – YouTube
Mealworm 101 || 5 Simple Steps to Starting a Mealworm Colony! – YouTube
And a few more general chicken videos:
Raising chicks 101 – Avoid these fatal beginner mistakes! – YouTube
Top 10 “Chicken Beginner” MISTAKES You DON’T Want To Make! | How To Raise Chickens! – YouTube
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Miscellaneous gardening videos (links only):
How to Grow Beets All Year – YouTube
How To Collect And Save Beet Seeds – YouTube
The TRICK To Saving Seeds For Next Year – Cucumber, Tomato & Pepper Seed Harvest – YouTube
How To Save And Store Carrot Seeds – YouTube
How to grow and Harvest Oats on a Small Plot – YouTube
Growing Wheat – small scale – YouTube
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25+ Ways To Keep Food Cold Without Electricity – Ask a Prepper
Amazing how creative people were. And can be again.
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12 Perfect Vegetables To Grow In A Shady Garden Space – Off-Grid
Not everyone gets lots of sunlight in their garden.
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Bushcraft: How Native Americans Preserve Food
Other videos of food preservation (links only):
Amind 435 Final: Native American Food Preservation – YouTube
Native American (Diné) Food Storage – YouTube
You Can Live Without Refrigeration – Here’s How – YouTube
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Planting Grapes – How To Grow Your Own Grape Vines With Ease! (oldworldgardenfarms.com)
I have three concord grape plants that I hope (!) survived the winter. This year I plan to plant several more.
Question: Any suggestions for an organic pest-control spray since I noticed “something” that was eating the leaves?
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Their Plan To Confiscate Our Guns. That’s What Is Hiding in Their “Orders”
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1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
The CPRC study showed that while 2% of counties populated by Democrats were responsible for 56% of the country’s murders, 52% of counties had no murders and 68% of counties had at most one murder.
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Keep you and yours safe. That’s your ONLY job.
Yup. And understand that in many jurisdictions, or countries, even defending yourself – let alone others – can be problematic and run you afoul of the law.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
I’ve mentioned before that my kids’ favorite lunch meat is nowhere to be found at “usual places”. Their favorite box juice is back, but supply is sporadic and usually only one flavor, not the 4-5 varieties that they used to have.
I’ve also seen a return of “front of shelf” loading – not universal, but there – whereby the products are arranged right up front to cover up the empty shelves behind. Supply of other things, here and there, results in absences where I come home empty-handed on that particular thing – definitely not something that used to happen pre-Potato.
Even one of my wife’s favorite chocolates seems to be spotty. And – horror of horrors – the Contadina basil pesto is not on the shelf half the time. Which, of course, only prompts me to work on making some from scratch this year.
Prices, too, are visibly creeping up on virtually everything.
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we will NOT survive this.
https://youtu.be/eCUaLnYXg4c
Japan, as a nation, is predicted to completely collapse within a few hundred years. Many will, I think. I know that one reason China reversed it’s ONE CHILD policy is a realization this would lead to demographic collapse… particularly as parents, wanting boys, would abort baby girls.
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Palate cleansers:
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Took me a moment.
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
