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. FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.
Note that these grow over several weeks.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
Thucydides
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Top of the fold:
Well Being: Dietary Supplements – by Robert W Malone MD, MS (substack.com)
They don’t want you healthy.
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SITREP sites:
I used to do a SITREP post as a separate, stand-alone. I can’t afford that time any more. Here are some “starter places” for sites that I routinely go to get info about what’s happening.
The sidebar of my old blog, with links to other places. redpilljew
Doug Ross @ Journal (directorblue.blogspot.com)
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
Bayou Renaissance Man: Emergency food supplies: points to ponder
Food shortages coming, by dribs and drabs. MHO is that the supplies will slowly, slowly constrict to avoid mass panic… until the absences become so noticeable that there’s a “preference cascade” where the mass public becomes consciously aware in a very short timespan.
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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)
Home – Backwoods Home Magazine (new)
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:
Building an Outdoor Oven – Mother Earth News
The technology of the domed oven is ancient. In one of the world’s oldest excavated Neolithic villages, every house had a domed mud oven. That was 9,000 years ago! The technology hasn’t changed. Any refractory dome that has a hole cut into it (so you can heat the oven with an interior fire) will cook pizza and other foods when the fire is still burning. However, the ultimate power of the domed oven is that the dome functions like a battery, absorbing heat while it’s being fired. So, after the fire has died down, you can sweep out the embers and bake bread and casseroles with the stored heat radiating into the oven from the dome. When the oven is nearly cool, you can dry wild mushrooms, herbs, and fruit inside.
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15 Items Every Prepper Should Hoard – Off-Grid
Video embedded.
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EMP Proof Batteries For Off-Grid Battery Bank (modernsurvivalblog.com)
Looks like the “old batteries” are best.
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Related to Spicy Time:
If you’re out in the woods, got to build fires with minimal to no smoke.
Stop the Smoke, Do THIS to Your Fire Pit
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DIY Projects to Hide Your Survival Plants in Plain Sight – Ask a Prepper
Nevertheless, it’s highly likely that those neighbors will remember your garden when food runs out and they want something to eat. That’s when they might be tempted to slip over the fence and see what you have that they can reappropriate for their own use.
This makes it so that the real trick about growing a survival garden is keeping your garden from being obvious. As an alternative, some parts of your garden might end up being obvious, but you’ll want to make sure that not all of it is readily identifiable as a vegetable garden. The more of your garden that you can keep people from recognizing for what it is, the better.
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EMP: The First 72 Hours – Ask a Prepper
Excellent. MHO on an EMP. Anyone with the capability to EMP will likely do it several times, spread out over weeks or even months (assuming retaliations don’t kick off).
Three more from the same site:
These Common Items Will Become a Luxury When SHTF – Ask a Prepper
7 Assumptions That Can Get You Killed When STHF – Ask a Prepper
Meds FEMA Will Take From You in a Crisis. Hide Them Now – Ask a Prepper
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“It is interesting to hear certain kinds of people insist that the citizen cannot fight the government. This would have been news to the men of Lexington and Concord, as well as the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The citizen most certainly can fight the government, and usually wins when he tries. Organized national armies are useful primarily for fighting against other organized national armies. When they try to fight against the people, they find themselves at a very serious disadvantage. If you will just look around at the state of the world today, you will see that the guerillero has the upper hand. Irregulars usually defeat regulars, providing they have the will. Such fighting is horrible to contemplate, but will continue to dominate brute strength.”
— Col Jeff Cooper USMC ret.
Related:
Citizens would win against the U.S. Military, here’s how | by Conor | Sword and Shield | Medium
(May need to register; you do get a “free pass” to 1-2 articles.)
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Related to Bushcraft specifically:
This actually WORKS! Primitive Water Filter Survival Hack!
More on water:
Can a Solar Still Generate Enough Fresh Water for Survival? | MythBusters – YouTube
This looks like an awful lot of work, but… on my Rumble channel:
Boiling water with… basically nothing to start with (rumble.com)
And this is interesting – apparently pine works the best!
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DIY Survival Lighter
Homemade, but kinda neat!
And speaking of fire:
Making Fire with a Bootlace and a Knife | How to make Char cloth – YouTube
Good, but could have been a LOT more succinct and concise.
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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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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
Site:
Eat The Weeds and other things, too – Foraging, Permaculture, and other things, too
And an article:
Forsythia – Eat The Weeds and other things, too
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How to eat acorns – hot leaching method by boiling the tannic acid out
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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):
Over 1.3 Million Chickens Will Be Killed at an Ohio Egg Farm * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Daniel
Get ready for the squeeze. And the war on beef is definitely heating up too
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
Back To Eden Gardening Documentary Film – How to Grow a Regenerative Organic Garden
Other gardening videos (links only):
Watch This Before You Plant Garlic – YouTube
This ONE Tip Will DOUBLE The Size of Your Garlic Heads! – YouTube
And:
On growing potatoes:
Speaking of spuds (and other thinks):
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This Pool Noodle Seed Starting Hack Is A Plant Lover’s Dream (housedigest.com)
But be careful of the material and leeching, so I’m not sure how useful. From the same site:
Edible Gardening – HouseDigest
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Warning: videos on butchering animals:
How to Butcher a Chicken for Beginners [GRAPHIC] – YouTube
How to Butcher a Rabbit – Details + Tips & Tricks | Creme d’Argent meat rabbits – YouTube
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General gardening videos (links only):
Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener’s Guide – YouTube
How To Make Compost Manure From Kitchen Waste, Fast and Easy – YouTube
The Art of Lazy Composting | How to Make High-Quality Compost the Simple Way – YouTube
5 Composting Myths You Should Stop Believing Right Now – YouTube
I’m planning to start a compost pile this spring. And also, late spring, take the kids to the seacoast to just kick around and explore. But a thought I’ve had is to gather up a five-gallon bucket of kelp / other seaweed to add to the pile. Sea grass too – not live, but stuff that’s been washed up.
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24 Newbie-Friendly Vegetables You Can Easily Grow Indoors (morningchores.com)
And from the same site:
Growing Jerusalem Artichokes: The Complete Guide to Plant, Care, and Harvest (morningchores.com)
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Homesteading: Raised Beds, Garlic and Aesthetics (substack.com)
Hopefully good info. Other things in a similar vein:
How to Start Seeds Indoors – How to Germinate Seeds Inside (thepioneerwoman.com)
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners – How to Start a Vegetable Garden (countryliving.com)
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How to Raise and Breed Mealworms for your Chickens – Fresh Eggs Daily® with Lisa Steele
Looks like a lot of good info there, and on the site in general. Related:
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The Complete Guide to Survival Gardening for Doomers (collapsesurvivalsite.com)
Long and lot of info.
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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)
If you carry concealed and you decide to join USCCA – like I just did – please use this link.
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Assorted links to videos (some seem better than others so YMMV):
Here’s What You Need to Do When You Are Carjacked – YouTube
What To Do When An Intruder Breaks Into Your House At Night – YouTube
I remember reading, IIRC in Massad Ayoob’s In The Gravest Extreme, that he said that an intruder at night has already thought about and planned for the possibility that they might encounter a resident awakened by their presence… and you can be assured that those plans aren’t good for you (he has another, similar, book that looks like an update that I need to get). Remember – you’re likely still sleepy, and they’re awake and pumped with adrenaline. Now this is not advice, just a recollection, but my recollection is that if you miraculously get the drop on them, just shoot. Don’t Hands up! or warn, just shoot. After all, they’re almost certainly within Tueller Drill distance and they’re pumped to take you out anyway. My recommendation is that if you have a local cop friend who already knows you have firearms, ask their professional advice which is sure to be all legalese, etc…. and then ask, So, what would you do?
Stop a Dog Fight Instantly – ‘Unlock’ a Biting Dog in SECONDS !! – YouTube
Reasons to carry a FIXED blade – YouTube
Special For Girls || Self Defence || Commando Fitness Club – YouTube
What You Need To Confront Groups Of Armed Violent Criminals – YouTube
SELF DEFENSE PRESSURE POINTS FOR BEGINNERS – SELF DEFENSE 101 – Five Elements Tactical – YouTube
3 Ways to Touch & Sleep People ● Instant Knockout Strike – YouTube
Neck strike. This can kill.
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I love how the other person at the table just continues eating their ice cream!
Situational Awareness!
But watching this, I instantly knew those guys walking around the corner were bad news. And, clearly, so did the guy at the table.
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Hunting & Fishing:
Tanning Deer Hides Start to Finish! How Easy is This? | TUTORIAL | INDIGENOUS SKILLS | DIY
Other videos (links only):
How to Butcher a Deer at Home | The Bearded Butchers – YouTube
Hide Tanning 101 – How to make Leather from Animal Skins, NATURALY – YouTube
Venison Hind Breakdown #shorts – YouTube
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Something to consider as we watch the rivers of people streaming into our country:
The USA’s Army of Illegals – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
Related to the literal tsunami of illegals… amongst many other things:
Biden Isn’t Worried About Diseases Seeping Through The Border (thefederalist.com)
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Boots on the Ground…Jan. 3rd… MIDDLE EAST is getting ready to EXPLODE…Attack in Iran
Not to be doom and gloom, but with all the piles of war-tinder around, let alone the things that are already going on… something’s gonna blow. It could be the Middle East. It could be China-Taiwan. Russia looks to be winning in Ukraine despite Western aid.
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Palate cleansers:
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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.
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