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. Please note that I cannot sustain two of these a week, so I will be folding some of the SITREP stuff in here as I see appropriate.
Apologies for missing last week. Work, and time in general.
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He lived through the fall of South Africa and said the US is following the same pattern.
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Top of the fold:
10 Myths About Storing Food In 5-Gallon Buckets – Ask a Prepper
Important!!
An observation about spoiled food: even insect-ridden grain, etc., can become bait in a true SHTF situation. Some time ago, when I was busy purging ALL my grains because of meal moth infestation, I discovered that the discards were a prime deer attractant. Tracks in the snow told me.
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City to Country so NOW What?
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
Soon. Something’s going to happen soon. There will be some provocation, something, that will be that final straw. And then things get messy, in a hurry.
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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:
25 Survival Items To Hunt For At Flea Markets – Ask a Prepper
I like flea markets in general, but this is a good list.
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Combat Boots 101 – Ask a Prepper
Examine local conditions – excellent point.
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4 Prepper Mistakes That You Should Actually Make – Ask a Prepper
Mistakes will be made. But the only critical mistake is one you don’t learn from. And remember:
A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
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10 Amish Survival Hacks You Didn’t Know About – Ask a Prepper
The last is the biggest thing: a tight-knit group of people of similar mindset.
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How to Remove Rust From Different Surfaces (thespruce.com)
Useful!
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Related to Spicy Time:
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How The Native Americans Used To Hide In Plain Sight (askaprepper.com)
Fundamentally: OUTLINE, CONTRAST, and MOVEMENT. The infrared factor now plays in, of course. Though many of the comments are brutal.
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Related to Bushcraft specifically:
Essential Knots For Bushcraft Survival And Prepping (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
Anyone remember the scene from Jaws when Quint made Hooper tie an old-style knot?
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How to Find Water and Filter and Purify or Distill Using the Sun (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
The biggest new one for me is the idea of gathering water transpired from plants.
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How To Choose A Good Survival Knife For Prepping, Bushcraft And SHTF (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
And:
Survival Knife Guide For Prepping, Survival and SHTF (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
Leading to:
Crocodile Dundee – That is not a knife scene!
Had to. 😊
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Girl Living Off Grid Built The Most Secret Underground Tunnel Shelter Home
I think my concerns would be:
- Collapse
- Water intrusion
- Ventilation
- Critters
And in digging this, where’d all the dirt go? Dirt disposal, like in the classic movie The Great Escape, would need to be well planned out lest a huge pile of dirt be a give-away.
A follow-up video – home no longer hidden:
Upgrade her Underground To the Most Secret Underground in the World, Girl Living Off Grid
One more (link only):
Girl Living Off Grid Build a Complete Warm Bamboo Dugout Underground House for a Week Stay – YouTube
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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., 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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The Tragedy of Cultural Relativism
Just what are we importing with this mass migration?
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I have 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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15+ Wild Edibles You Should Can This Spring – Ask a Prepper
Recognition is the primary issue.
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Most see “weeds” but we see “medicine!” | Back Forty Farms (gab.com)
Video, two minutes.
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, Inflation, and Energy (broadly):
Shortages 2023: 4 goods facing tight supplies this year | Supply Chain Dive
Part of a series. Related:
10 Biggest Grocery Shortages of 2023 So Far: Eggs, Corn, & More (eatthis.com)
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My electric bill, specifically, is over $400 a month now.
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Inflation, buying a home, and the destruction of the American middle class
All deliberate.
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Madness. Speaking of madness – demand people use solar (and wind, which is driven by the sun), then block the sun. What could go wrong?
CBS News Pushes Bill Gates’ Plan to Fight ‘Climate Change’ by Blocking the Sun
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
Quick-hit-style on survival foods to grow:
20 Best Foods to Grow for Survival – Soulful Prepper
The 25 Best Foods to Grow In Your Survival Garden (maximumoffgrid.com)
9 Best Survival Crops to Grow in Your Backyard – The Backyard Pros
Top 10 Foods to Grow for Survival – Ask a Prepper
How To Grow A Survival Garden – Do You Have What It Takes? (ruralsprout.com)
Grow 100 kg of food in a small space – YouTube
You’re (Probably) Killing Your Fruit Trees – YouTube
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Basic Survival Skills – Grow Your Own Survival Food (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
Nice chart on when to plant, although definitely region dependent. And IMHO related:
Best Foods To Grow For Preservation and Storage — PLANT FOR CHANGE
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Three Simple Yet Effective Rain Water Harvesting Methods (ukpreppersguide.co.uk)
I used to gather rainwater off my roof for plant watering until the wife nixed the collection system because it was “ugly”. I’d get gutters to collect in a cistern down back of the house but that’s enough coin that I don’t have it.
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Amazing No-Dig Gardening Tutorial With Charles Dowding – Off-Grid
No-dig gardening has some interesting benefits over “ordinary” gardening. Charles uses a compost mulch – which feeds the soil, keeps it moist and suppresses weeds. It also means much less work as the time-consuming digging is eliminated.
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9 Scents That Japanese Beetles Hate (and How to Use Them) – Pest Pointers
I had these critters munching on some plants last year. Will have to try these.
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Fruit and Vegetables to Grow on a Trellis (theepochtimes.com)
I wonder how much cover they generate… can you double-up with something underneath that’s only partial sun?
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Healthy Sustainable Living: Three Things you Didn’t Know about Chickens and Tomatoes
Interesting. From the same site:
Healthy Sustainable Living: A Warning About Cinder Block or Concrete Masonry Gardens
I would not have thought of this. Good point! Also:
Healthy Sustainable Living: 5 Reasons to Grow Fruit Trees… even in Little Patio Pots
And circling back to tomatoes:
How to Prune Tomato Plants (thespruce.com)
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Eggshells – Nothing Goes To Waste! | Back Forty Farms (gab.com)
I used to save all my eggshells until the wife went on the warpath against my prepping.
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How to Grow Golden Beetroot from Seed to Harvest
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Kerr home canning book (1945 edition) | Open Library
Some knowledge may be outdated, but… good stuff, if only as background.
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Self sufficient cheese-making. Fresh cheese using only 2 ingredients. I litre of milk and squeeze a lemon and add salt. Then when it boils leave it to stand for 15 mins. Then separate curds from whey. and press down the curds (solid part) into a bowl.
Refrigerate and leave it to rest for 5 days. Then press out of the bowl and decorate with walnuts or something of your choice. Delicious.
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Transforming a 4 m2 Land to an Abundant Vegetable Garden
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Several videos on protecting chickens from predators (links only):
Protecting your hens from predators – YouTube
How to Install a Predator Apron Around a Chicken Coop – YouTube
Top 10 Chicken Predators – YouTube
No, Your Chickens AREN’T SAFE From Predators (Until You Do THIS) 🦅❤️🐔 – YouTube
Best Tips to Predator Proof a Chicken Coop – YouTube
5 common chicken predators | and 10 ways to stop them – YouTube
How to PROTECT chickens from PREDATORS | This thing works! – YouTube
How to keep hawks from killing your chickens – YouTube
And an article:
The Common Predators that Kill Chickens – Strombergs (strombergschickens.com)
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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)
Calling 911 After Self-Defense
From the same channel, link only:
Stupid Self-Defense Mistakes That Could Cost You Your Freedom – YouTube
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Looter Deterrents You Never Thought Of – Ask a Prepper
The kids want a dog; I’m coming around.
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Just because it’s absolutely justified – on a hypothetical objective scale – doesn’t mean they won’t try to arrest you.
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Hunting & Fishing:
I need to take the safety course and then look for a veteran to “take me under their wing” on this. Back when I lived in the Midwest I had a friend / coworker who lived to hunt. I regret not tagging along, but then I didn’t realize how close we were to bad times coming.
How to Hunt: A Step-by-Step Guide for New Adult Hunters | Outdoor Life
165 Hunting Tips: The Complete Guide to Hunting (misspursuit.com)
Best Pro Hunting Tips for Beginners: How to Hunt Basics and More (atncorp.com)
Hunting Tips For Beginners Ultimate Guide 2023 (huntingsky.com)
15 Deer Hunting Tips that Will Make You a Better Hunter – Silencer Central
50 Great Hunting Tips | Outdoor Life
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The Absolute Beginner’s Fishing Guide to Success – Outside Online
10 Fishing Tips And Tricks – On The Water
20 FISHING TIPS THAT WILL HELP YOU THINK MORE LIKE A FISH | Angling Times
How to Fish – Ultimate Guide on Fishing for Beginners (tailoredtackle.com)
Best Fishing Tips Every Angler Should Know – Fishingery
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A thought on both hunting and fishing. If SHTF every goombah and their cousin is going to think of the same thing. And if food’s really short, they’re going to be willing to use violence to feed themselves and theirs, and screw yours.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
As from above, I’ve decided I can no longer support the time to do this AND a SITREP, so I’m folding a few of the SITREP categories in and casting loose the others.
Hopefully, however, I can get to work on finishing some of the original-content essays I have.
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Taking Aim at the Middle Class
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Palate cleansers:
Going to Hell for that one, I think.
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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.
