We live in a world now where an increasing number of people are calling themselves preppers and stockpiling for a major disaster scenario.
Just a few years ago, to most people being a ‘prepper’ meant being crazy and neurotic.
But those days are long past.
The Covid pandemic woke many people up to the stark reality that our world is not as stable as it seems. Several incidents of societal unrest, heightened political tensions, wars in other countries, supply chain issues, and an unstable economy have also played a role in convincing many people to set aside provisions for an end of the world disaster.
If you’re one of these people who’s decided that making preparations for a major disaster is wise, and if you’re just getting into prepping, it’s easy to make mistakes right off the bat.
As a prepper with over ten years of experience myself, I’m going to tell you what I wish I had known when I first got into prepping.
Have a Plan
As simple as it sounds, the number one thing I wish I had known when I got into prepping was to have a plan.
Most people don’t understand preppers or what prepping really is. That’s why when they first decide to start prepping, they do so without having any plan at all.
They get excited about prepping and to start buying gear and stockpiling supplies such as food, ammunition, and so on without any plan at all.
But do you know how to store your food properly so that it lasts? Have you calculated how much you should store to ensure that you and your family can stay fed for a length of time (such as six months)?
Do you know when you should rotate out your water storage? Do you know how to store your ammunition so that it won’t corrode? Do you know how to use all the gear that you’ve bought?
Simply buying a lot of food and water on its own is not going to prepare you well enough for an end of the world scenario. There’s a lot more you need to do in regards to planning.
Prepping is a lifestyle. A significant part of your life is going to revolve around stockpiling, preparing food to make it longer lasting, rotating out food and water that goes bad, working on your skills, and so on.
This is precisely what most people (potentially including your own family members) do not understand about prepping. They don’t anticipate just how much work and preparation it’s going to require out of their day. True preppers are those who do understand how much work and planning goes into prepping and spend a consistent part of their lives revolving around it.
To that end, you should:
Plan Out What You Will Store
Don’t just store food and water randomly.
Instead, think about how much food and water your family needs on a daily basis, and then work to store enough for the period of time you want to be prepared for.
Let’s say that you want to store enough food and water to last you and your family of four for six months.
Have you actually thought about how much you’ll need to last your family for this long?
In general, it’s wise to set aside the gallon of water per person per day, with this water to be used for both cleaning and drinking purposes. That means you’ll need four gallons of water set aside for a day.
For a week, you’ll need twenty eight gallons. For a month, you’ll need approximately eight hundred and forty gallons. For six months, you’ll need a whopping five thousand gallons of water.
That’s a lot of water, and storing it will be no easy feat either. You would need five 1,000 water harvesting tanks to do it (there are also harvesting tanks with larger capacities, but you get the idea), and then you would need to make sure that you have enough space for those tanks.
You can adopt a similar approach to storing your food as well: think carefully about how much food you and your family will realistically need, and then make sure you have enough space for storing all of that food.
There’s one more step you’ll need to follow here as well…
Rotate
If you’re going to stockpile food and water, you’ll need to get prepared to rotate that food in a few months (or years) depending on when it goes bad.
Most food has a limited shelf life, which is why you’ll want to check and rotate your food and water to ensure that it is always safe to consume.
Related: If You Have This in Your Pantry, Throw It Away Immediately
My advice is to put a label on your food and water that indicates the date you stored it. Rotate out the water once every six months, and rotate out the food depending on when it will become perishable (you’ll need to thoroughly research the shelf life of each of each item you store).
Practice Your Skills
There’s an old saying that practice makes perfect. You never want a true survival or grid down disaster to be the first time you put your skills to the test. Rather, you want your skills to be well-honed by the time a major disaster has occurred.
I would focus on practicing the following kinds of skills:
- First Aid Skills
- Food Preservation (canning, freeze drying, curing, etc.)
- Gardening
- Navigation
- Wilderness Survival Skills (building a shelter, building a fire, etc.)
Simply reading an article on the above kinds of skills doesn’t make you skilled in them.
You’ll need to learn how to can or freeze dry food and practice it in your kitchen, and go out into the woods to build shelters. Go out and try to cook your food off the grid, over an open fire.
Have a Community
There’s another old saying that there is strength and safety in numbers. You and your family simply won’t be able to go it alone when a major disaster strikes. It’s vitally important that you have other people of a similar mindset to you who you can join forces with.
Working together with people, you can teach each other skills, keep track of how much you store, and have a plan for how you will band together and stay in communication for the day when society collapses.
Keep Yourself Under the Radar
In the process of forging a community with other like-minded people, you’ll also want to make sure that your own preparations remain largely unknown by other people. In other words, don’t go around announcing that you are a prepper or talking about your preparations with other people.
It’s certainly okay to talk about prepping with other people. This will be one way that you find other like minded people in the first place.
I’m just saying that I wouldn’t go too far and reveal how much food and water I’ve stored and other preparations I’ve made. When a true disaster strikes, people will get desperate and remember what you said, and they’ll be the ones who come knocking at your door.
Having a plan in regards to how I store my food and water, focusing more on practicing my skills, and finding other trustworthy people in my area who recognize the importance of prepping to join forces are the three primary things I wish I had known when I first started prepping.
Prepping is not about just buying cool gear, stockpiling a few essentials, and thinking you’re going to go it alone when the time comes.
Rather, prepping needs to become a part of your lifestyle where you need to think realistically about how much you want to store and how you should store it, how you can align yourself with other like-minded people, and how you can really develop your skills.
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This is what I did not know before prepping.
Everyone thinks you are crazy.
Everyone is lazy.
Trust NO one.
Be a Lone wolf but don’t tell anyone.
Remember, you are no one special and you are disposable to anyone that is trying to save there own ASS. EVEN FAMILY…
TRUST WILL BE EVERYTNIG.
stay sharp
It was commonsense passed on family education from the early settler days. Not including those who lived in the city of the old world America. From the 13 Colonies, Westward Ho Pioneers, to the 1930’s Crash – Depression. To the 1970’s Survivalist Movement which is now considered the “Prepping Movement” of present time period we are in.
Yes you study the prepping and social mindset all is tied into politics as we see both intertwined in Bidenomics of the globalism that nothing more than the World War II era. Our liberal leaders in Washington DC and Blue States are no better than the WWII Dictators. The Public School Union Teachers use to teach HISTORY.
red ant, Are you being you trying to be humorous or sarcastic?
There are plenty more lone wolf preppers than communities of preppers in these bidenomic times.
We got dummycrats, rino’s filing lawsuit to take Trump off the ballots as liberals don’t want us to return to God fearing Americans. And a self sufficient economy capable of fighting two major wars at once. Now we are entrenched with illegals who need to be removed now as our economy goes broke.
Just telling it like it was told to me as kid. Know that I am very much older, I see how true it really is today.
stay sharp
Will You Be Strong Enough to Refuse a Chip in Your Arm?
We are all ready glued to a smart phone
I’ll be gone to heaven before that happens!!
Rapture isn’t a thing
@nobody methinks @his child is not necessarily referring to the rapture. Refusal of the chip may very possibly lead to beheading so… In heaven as stated. Absent from the body, present with the Lord. Believe as you wish. It will all be evident soon enough.
Blessings
Refuse the chip might mean….you can’t eat just one……
red ant, you are somewhat right, but you could elaborate a bit more.
Half those who think you crazy, just don’t understand. Many aren’t lazy, just don’t know what work looks like, or how to do it. You can trust some people at levels, just don’t entrust them with the secrets of the universe. ( teach them everything they know, but not everything you know )
Passing along wisdom is a good thing, what they do with it is on them…..
pb-dave
Well yes, you can say that.
In my time of over 40 yrs of teaching, the problem is that most people only learn 1 to 10%, because they learn only enough to just get them by.
I did not get to learn that way, it was a beating for us to learn the way you were being taught. You messed up, it was not good. It went on for over 15 to 16 yrs learning how to fix wreak cars and how to restore antique cars and today no one wants to learn the right way, only just what will get them by.
Times have changed, that’s why it is so hard to read some post and just life in general to watch how cheap people have gotten.
We are sinking like a Zepplin, Just hard to watch, it will be over soon.
stay sharp
Agreed red, these articles like to recommend having groups of like minded people. I disagree. There are very few people, friends or family that I would trust with my life, very few.
Make a list of friends and relatives, inlaws you would trust with your life or would give your life for and be very honest.
RedAnt -WMD – All true – but when making the list of friends, inlaws and relatives, one needs to consider how many on that list are near enough to be a part of the future… I am sure that my family is like most, spread all over hell and half of creation. The ones that could be trusted are either too far away to get to or come to my location. Most are so oblivious to world events, that they will not see a major event coming in time to head out early enough while the roads are passable or major transportation lines come to a screeching halt. Even local ‘like minded’ folks I trust are 15 to 30 miles away from each other – and that distance may be too dangerous or destroyed to link up initially or during an ongoing protracted ‘event’. Most will be ‘Lone Wolves’ at one point or another when the ball drops.
Okay
Honest list of who I would trust.
1. GOD 100%
2.Jesus 100%
3. My self 100%
4. ? I have never met anyone else that I could or would trust.
Thought I could trust family and friends. That was a wrong thing to do.
Trust is everything ? %
I don’t even trust this web site.
stay sharp
IMHO we will have to group up for survival at some point. My preference is to group up with trustworthy folks now than have to group up with whatever is available after stuff hits the fan. KKnow what I mean Verne?
When I reply to a comment, it’s always taken down…due to duplicate reply..BUT it’s not a duplicate..WHY??? This is tiresome.
Sally keep trying. Resend your post again.
It is probably a Bias AI Unit running everything. lol…
stay sharp
if you enjoy hell keep denying him.
AMEN… Kool.
Happy Jan 6th …..Be happy the Dems only killed one of us………..I Know ..I Know…give it time…..Hang in there Sally….I heard the Dems will eat them selfs after while….
I see a lot going on around me knowing things are not looking good for our country. I’ve been prepping for 7 years and I learn something new mostly every day, and I want to thank you Claude for the great books you have put out. I have learned quite a bit from your books.. Is there anyone in this prepping community from Pennsylvania, like around Washington, PA area? If so let’s talk and see if we could get acquainted, the more acknowledge and hands we have the better chances we have of surviving this insane path our country is taking us down.
Welcome to 2024! Come one, come all?
Those illegals crossing the American southern open Biden’s Marxist Border are not here for asylum. Those illegals and terrorists are here to disrupt our American financial system, welfare freeloaders, overload the medical system. Destroy the electrical grid by terrorism, sabotage all other necessary utilities Americans have grown to be soft in mind and body also in spirit.
America is in a spiritual battle next to our political division battles among our citizens of skin color then of being qualified skills regardless of religion.
People were worried about the Mexicans overwhelming the America. We got China students stealing technologies in universities, getting a degree to return to China an reverse engineer our secrets.
We also have large Muslim population invading everything like political offices and universities protest demands against our allies like Israel.
We have antifa, blm and Muslim religion turning our Christian nation upside down.
Thank you Biden, The View, Obama, Clinton, Carter, the unions, environmentalist and foreign agents to bring down America! Wake up non woke America! You will no longer own anything, Black Rock, Soros, China will own you Americans soon!
I have been a prepper for well over 10 years. I try not to advertise it. A couple of things I have done. I installed a wood stove for warmth and cooking. I live on a very wooded 11.5 acres. I plan to cut wood with a battery powered chainsaw to feed my stove. I purchased a solar generator to recharge my batteries. I also put a hand pump on my well so that I could easily get and barter water for firewood and other essentials. I never want to see the grid go down, but I think I am very prepared. Encourage your readers to buy the book or audio tape “One Second After” by William Forstchen. He has other books as well like “One Year After”. It’s glimpse of what life may be like after an EMP.
****As noted above, absolutely do not publish my email address.
Thanks for all that you do in trying to keep us safe.
Buy a real chain saw
Hi….Joe…..Also think about getting some good sharp axes or a couple of pet Beavers…always think about the stone age..The Earth does what she wants …..you are just along for the ride. It wil definitely take a village when the S…hits the fan .But in my opinion i think you have a good start . Keep it simple….you can’t take it all with you . We could have had Al Gore for president……makes me wonder where we would be at by now. Good Luck….Joe !
Good advice The book one second after is a good place for most beginners to start. It is an eye opener. I was raised in a sufficient live style, it is a lot of hard work and constant planning cycle. I manage a series of self sufficiency campground retreats in the Missouri ozarks. We have some permanent residents and some weekend preppers. You all are free to reach out to me @abc4sos@hotmail.com
Forstchen’s trilogy (havent read the 2023 book yet) is not only very enjoyable reading, it is a great primer in existing after the fact. Also a great pointer of what we don’t know, if you can look past the obvious left-handed way he introduces the teaching points. Consider it required reading, and a good starting point for your suvival library.
Its 4 books the books 2 to 3 have been kinda of lame
A skinhead in remission?
Bidenomics is lame and so are the liberals in charge.
We need a citizen’s revolt of non violence and a grassroots convention of retired Americans, veterans, private construction groups and the 50 States National Guard units to take taxpayer’s paid for border wall materials and build the FREEDOM NATIONAL SECURITY SOUTHERN BORDER WALL!
We don’t need Bidenomics president’s EO’s or his permission anymore!
We are being invaded by China, Russia, Iran, N.K. and other terror groups besides the foreign freeloaders for welfare. None of them currently are persecuted, they are financial invaders to our sovereign country. They are breaking our immigration laws that both major political parties want cheap labor and voters to keep the Status Que in power. That also includes the chamber of commerce who vote along with major global corporations.
Prudent Peeps,
There are MANY Democrats (like me) who are saved born again Christians, who love our country and our democracy and ALL of our people (yes, even the Red State people we disagree with…as our Lord instructed us to) with a passion, and who are prudently prepping. In all the old ways; utilizing Clyde’s incredible gifts and resources, among many others. I live in a small town, garden, share mutual care with all my neighbors (apartment living), have a solar panel/generator, cook and make almost all my own food and sundries, have lost 50 lbs. in the last two years, walk at least two to four miles per day and have rebuilt my muscle base as a young Senior, pray for our beloved country every day and night. ALL of us. For those of you harboring the idea that Blue State folk are “as bad as fascist dictators,” THIS is the kind of belief and speech that most harms our great nation. I come from a family FULL of conservative Republicans…and also Democrats….going back three generations. In the America I live in, grew up in, work and VOTE to protect, we are ALL Americans and we OFTEN disagree. This is what makes a great democracy. If we cannot all re-remember that, we are going to lose our democracy. Which I and tens of millions on both sides of our political aisle deeply dread and should. There is nothing romantic, exciting, cool, interesting, or nation-building about civil war. It is a hell on Earth in which EVERYONE’s children and elders die, the infrastructure gets destroyed, and the representative democracy we ALL love gets dismantled. And what remains after that? Feudal territories run by gangs imposing their will on everyone around them. There is NOTHING Christian, American, or democratic about ANY of that. So please….let us all re-find each other, people of good heart, hard work, and our core American values. Please.
So being Democrat., makes it okay to aboard the innocent unborn baby’s.
Life starts in the womb, the day GOD creates you.
Being a born again Christian also means to following GOD’S Laws.
Thy she’ll not murder the innocent. That is the Unborn also. That you VOTE for…
I am a born again Christian and I do not agree with the democratic side, nor the Republican side.
But, I do stand on GODS word.
We will stand in judgment, even in our beliefs on voting.
Dems are not for pro life. Go figure…
I will say the Republican side is the lesser of the two evils.
In a two party system dreamed up by politicians to divide us and congress inventing the tax system of the IRS, we have ingrained corruption forever until the second coming of our Lord.
Ki, it is too bad you can not reverse your voting record like voting Biden into office. The damage is being done, thank you for your crummy votes. May God have mercy on you and other Demoncrat converts.
Sorry but you cannot be a Christian and a democrat….full term abortion…..gender changes for children…….I think not. Wise up.
There are two kinds of Christians. Type one is what I call a check the box Christian; they are Christian by choice and convenience. Type two are those that have an intimate relation with Christ and do what he said to do. Don’t read John 3:16 without reading John 3:36 as well; no defense from politics, it is just like saying, I was only following orders. Think about it, when Christ says, “Depart from me, I never knew you” who is HE talking to? Not pagans, not other faiths, he is talking to believers who were deceived. What is the main thing we are warned about in Matthew 24? Be not deceived. Read it again and think on it. We are there.
Republicans abort kids too.
Circus, please read what you wrote.FULL TERM ABORTION. You can not abort a baby after it is born. Hence the words full term. That is called MURDER. Where in the world do you get your information from? There has never been nor will there ever be a law making full term abortion legal.
Ki – Sounds good, but I do not see those who you are talking about. I do not see the Democrats you describe. I do not see those caring Americans you mention on the Left. What channel are they on? What mode of communications do they use? I must be missing something. All I see is Hate of America, Division of neighbors and self imposed ignorance of what is actually going on in this country every single day. Either you are confused with your political standing, or you post was a wishful smattering of how you wish things were. In either case – it is not the reality I see every day. If your fantasy existed, I could save a lot of prep time and money.
I know lots of caring Democrats things are never black and white. You guys are too caught up in politics. Both sides are corrupt, and have different issues. The only reason why I usually vote democrats is because there’s a lot of racism on the right and corruption from some of the stuff they pass trickles down to the more oppressed people in America. Most people are middle voters anyways in reality the whole great divide is fabricated to take away your attention, so are a lot of other stupid issues they keep focusing on in the news. (There are literally digital algorithms that can be used to divide people. I highly recommend watching the social dilemma.)
Wake up! While we squabble about politics those in power are orchestrating our destruction. It is the old as time divide and conquer strategy while we are arguing about stupid things that are not the most important in the face of bigger problems. The elite with take advantage of disaster to consolidate world power that is the true reason for the global reset a new era. Those in power and the governments around the world know that once the full force of climate change hits everyone will turn against them. The governments see it to, and they are trying to distract us from the things that require our attention War, Famine, and the spread of poverty, and the decrease in moral values because people don’t fear god enough anymore. He will come back soon though the hour is unknown. I can say as a Scientist things don’t look good right now for the oncoming decades in this century environmentally. There is stuff that doesn’t even really get press in the general population because it is difficult to grasp without background knowledge. If we do not stand together and prepare and try to find good solutions to a variety of issues we will fall apart very fast. I am not just talking about America, I am talking about the world.
-Prayer is preparation no matter what your political affiliation is we are all just people and the USA and the world definitely needs some coverage right now
I find it funny to read your post. It seams to me we can all get along, but only if it fits your narrative.
So tell me how can we see eye to eye when you make me wear a blind fold.
Do you see that we will agree and disagree.
Can a sail boat sail with no wind.
See we need each other, but it will only work if we come together as a working unit.
This is the reson there is no, I in team. But I see nothing good from a group of people that call them selfs democrats, when you willingly vote to murder innocent baby’s, for the reason of, just because…
Who made the KKK. Democrats.
Right or left still the same bird…
Your cross to bear.
!. We are not a democracy, nor have ever been one. We are a constitutional republic, democracy = mob rule
2. The demoncrats in charge now ain’t your father’s democrat party.
3.. No one wants a civil war, but there is a certain party in charge that can’t be reasoned with and when they don’t get there way seem to throw temper tantrums and get violent (see antifa).
Hi fartinmartin…I don’t believe antifa runs the Dem Party …..
There should be laws on the books to take care of antifa ….you just need the nads to enforce them…..
Thats why I’m practicing…..accidentally eye plucking in my preps……lol
RRRRRmatey and a bottle of rum…..
(see Margorie Taylor Green)
Honestly, a lot of what today is called “prepping,” was just normal living two generations ago. You see it most clearly with food. When you grow up eating seasonally, you quickly learn that the raspberries you love to pick from the cane and eat are available fresh but a short while. So, like the ant in Aesop’s fable, you enjoy some of the berries fresh and preserve the others to have later on. “Later on” can be that winter or following spring. Or even later than that.
My grandmother was a newlywed bride at the beginning of the Depression. As a young girl, she remembered meatless days and sugarless days during WWI. When she was 90, she complained to me that she had canned so little that summer. “Only some tomatoes, peaches, and a few chutneys.”
A friend who would have been 100 this year (she died at 95) always had some extra things in the house. Just in case of weather or unexpected guests, or both. Extra food, drink, blankets. An up-to-date address book so people could be quickly contacted if need be.
Another friend and I were concerned about our elderly friend. In case we needed to evacuate, how would we manage collecting this elderly lady? The elder told us not to worry about her and not to risk our safety for her. We were never tested, but every bad storm, we called her to make sure she was all right or to see if she needed our help.
Much of the prepping information I see posted assumes that everyone is able-bodied, especially those who have the line wolf approach. At times, you might have to fend for yourself completely alone: all three of us friends have had those instances. But it’s better if you can have a few other trusted souls close by. They may have knowledge, strength, or training you lack. Our older friend was physically a bit frail. Yet, her mind was sharp as a tack, and her knowledge vast.
Ideally, you can store what provisions you need and have them last long enough until you can procure more. Whether it be canned veg from the grocery store on your shelves while you plant your garden to supply your shelves next year, raising livestock for this winter’s meat and sustaining you until next hunting season, when you take wild game, or perhaps it’s doing the same as you have this season as you hone your skills to learn alternatives for provisioning for yourself and your household.
As mentioned in the article, just reading about it doesn’t make you an expert. Hands-on learning provides the muscle memory needed to make it more familiar. Being able to size up a basket of windfall apples knowing that you can turn it into seven quarts of applesauce and a half-gallon of vinegar , knowing the coring and possible paring will take a few hours helps you to make the best use of your time.
The very idea of putting things by for later is foreign to many who have been brought up with a convenience food mentality or just-in-time warehousing.
It’s not a new problem. Aesop’s fable of the ant and grasshopper goes back centuries. The grasshopper lifestyle and narrative has been pushed for a long time.
MbI agree, Our country has become the grasshopper with Bidenomics. The Ant is our traditional American approach to life. People living in the snow country know what prepping means. Prepping is not a specific lifestyle as many people have been told. Prepping is part of life but not to be an exclusive or obsessive overpowering religious devotion as some preppers think it is.
There are other preppers who think bible quotes in comments are a little too much. Religion is a personal private choice not to be forced in public. These people are like PETA and vegans trying to push a agenda narrative.
Before giving a negative thumbs down, you might reflect upon what has been said before, previous in other comments and today’s comment section.
We are not a hive nation, we are a nation of freedom, justice and the American way. The right to be safe and secure in our person, the choice of religion and politics we follow and not by group-think. God gave us rights, not the government and freewill to choose how we live life in general.
We have a spiritual war in America, the open border, Bidenomics and unvetted flood of freeloaders does not help our God given America to prosper.
Biden’s gate of open border hell is not sustainable or depending on enemies for oil when America has the oil to drill.
Remember Joe Biden when the student loan system started in 1965 was interest free. Biden in 1973 made the student loans become interest fee charges, no wonder people become slaves to the government!
You are so right. A sufficient life style takes a life time to learn. A comment to work hard and a stubbornness to not give up, when a new experiment dose not succeed the first time. A prepper can build a central community and still lone Wolfe it 90 precent of the time. Survival is always a one to one rational ,but do not be afraid of using force multipliers
My parents were farm and country raised. Born in 1904 and 1907 they survived the Spanish flue, WW1, The Great Depression, and WW2. They had a garden everywhere they lived. Even in big cities pot on window sills, and veggies in with the flowers in beds around the apartment or a plot in the backyard. They canned and sun dried everywhere we lived. When we lived where using a freezer was fezable we had one. into their 80 they were always growing enough to share with other and had plenty to live from harvest to harvest. It seems natural to live the same so I do.
I moved to a new property a year ago. I added the most mature fruit trees I could afford from nurseries. I planted more than 60 new fruit trees and about the same number of vine and bush berry plants. Also a dozen native hazelnuts. Most nut trees take too long to mature for me to ever see them bear nuts. I even have a bush pomegranate to grow indoors in winter and a good variety of tame and wild Medicinals. Some to live outside and some like hibiscus will winter indoors. A surprising number of common flowers are Medicinals and repel troublesome insects or draw insects to themselves so grow freely in the garden and around the new trees in the new orchard area. I bought seed a few years ago for a lot of wild edibles and Medicinals that I’ve move to my new place. They grow in wild plots that would look like weeds to most folks. I love planned foraging areas. Little if any care once planted and growing. Occasionally in very dry times I squirt some water onto those areas.
I admire your wisdom. I have been doing the same for over 40 years. The one thing that I have learned is how little I really truly know! I am in my 60,s now and and my children and grand kids do not want learn what I learned from my grandparents. But they show up on harvest Day to eat!
Anyone else having problems getting their lettuce to germinate? I’m an experienced gardener but for the last couple of years I’ve been unable to get a single lettuce seed to sprout, and it’s mind boggling. They are different lettuces, DIFFERENT AGES… MOSTLY YOUNG AND FRESH, different companies, multiple times of the year. I’ve tried them in the ground and in flats. It’s the strangest thing. Everything else germinates just fine. Anyone else have this issue or any idea what’s going on?
Boiled Frog
I have been gardening for over 50 yr and have never seen plants not grow or gerimante or how hard it is to just keep it alive.
I use heirloom seeds. I still keep trying to get something.
My super green thumb has been Smashed. OUCH…
Just part of the End Times.
stay sharp
Same thing with Dill, Fennel grows better than Dill. Think it maybe the time of the weather seasons and the quality of the germination rate. The Dill grows than dies off. Have good luck growing other vegetables. This past Summer battled it out with the rats and mice chomping on vegetables. Sign of the times, then it is some plants just won’t grow for them and it does for the next door neighbor’s garden, luck of the Irish:).
I haven’t grown much lettuce for awhile. I had a packet of old miesclun (mixed greens) that I haphazardly threw into a pot, this summer, and they grew.
I had an old green bean packet and planted those seeds, curious to see how they would fare. They terminated and now I have fresh green bean seed.
I’m figuring I’ll dedicate part of my garden space to old seed to use them up rather than just toss. If they sprout, then I get a crop and possibly seed to save.
I tend to grow mesclun rather than heads of lettuce. But I do have some romaine seeds.
what is mesclun ?
My boiled eggs look different too….the yoke part….Zombie chicken’s ?
As a prepper, is it rational to have your dogs spayed or neutered?
Neither.
Eat once or eat many time.
Just saying.
Hi Frenchy , What pops into my mind is in Wa. State we have to compete with wolfs and big bear now.I can’t even bye a bb gun in my county. That even has the highest crime rate in our D. run state. But i bet our elite has a few and the criminals also.I don’t remember voting for that crap….working to hard and i little rum and coke…I’ve been sober since covid…..ya!!!!! Don’t have a dog….It hurts to much when they die ….
The #1 lesson about prepping for the end of the world is to realize that the odds that the end of the world will happen in your lifetime is very small. Nearly every generation has been expecting the end and return of Christ for the last 2 thousand years. He IS coming back, but the odds of it being in your life aren’t much better than in your Great grandfather’s day. Be prepared, but don’t expect to see it.
don
I would not bet on what you say.
The signs are very evident that this is the End of times.
Open your eyes. Way closer then ever before.
stay sharp
Hi Red Ant , Ya I hope we can get through this…..and get back to drinking Bud
Don’t drink. Bud is nasty and most beer taste like nasty.
But we can pray together.
stay sharp.
Great article , comments
The thing about Money, Control , Politics
It cannot sit still , has to be in charge , control , do something
There is a Way that seems right to every person, man, woman, child
but the end is death
your choice Life eternal or Consequence for your sin, action , way you chose
there is no other way , everyone gets that choice
Life eternal or Death eternal
be careful who , what you listen to , trust , believe , follow
There is alway s a motive , a reason, a ego , a pride of life , a sense of accomplishment
Choice , choose you this day whom you will serve God or Money or others who are on the sinking ship of fools , feeling good about thier failure s on the way down
Be Careful who you trust to give you advice , tell you , who , what , to follow
only 2 forces of life at work God or Satan , Heaven or Hell , payment for sin or consequence for sin . forgiveness or judgement still your choice
Jesus is at the door to your heart , option to forgive until death , after that Judgement
no second chance, no option after , no good enough
Hi Chistopher …….Exactly how do you know this ……just asking……not trying to to be judgemental or anything But i once heard a pastor say…. paraphrasing……he would not trust anyone in his flock with his soul….in to which i kind of agree….i will share a pearl ….the Kingdom of Heaven is within us all . Its just that we are all at different levels of understanding. Does saying that demands my soul to be cast in to the lake of fire ….I’ll see….Only if the Romans had a open mind….they probably would have …..I’ll stop….i have many questions ….pray for me Thanks.
Do you hear any of the others running for President saying any thing a bout
all the illegal immigrants crossing our southern Boarder, I haven’t
But Trump IS and what he will do a bout it once he is back in the white house.
About the economy ,
and a whole lot more.
The rest do a lot of talking and saying really nothing,
Just listen real close,
Trump tells it like it is,
Those that know what America stand for , And how hard our vets fought to keep us free,
The Dem rats now want to compleatly control our lives, Take a way our country,
and enslave us,
Take a way our money, and control every aspect of our lives .And destroy our
god given freedoms
LIKE HELL THEY WILL. . , The rich are so rich they got nothing better to do.
And there is a lot more of the common people then they are of them .
So you dems out there you will live under no freedoms, .
You all want to be controlled . , Maybe we should but you all on MARS.
Elons working on it. , Why don.t you start booking your your flights now.
and start packing your suitcases , That way there will be no rush
and every thing will go as planed for you
I hear the weather there is every thing you would want on such a planet .
Sub tropical , Have a a wonderful fight ,
OH by the way you only have to book it one way,
Its less money that way . You might need a cup of star bucks
after you wake up when you get there.
Just think you will have every thing you ever dreamed of once
you get there ,
5 to 7 moths. Something like that
The Rich need to move To North Korea China and Russia ,
Where peoples live ARE CONTROLLED.
And not trying to impose this on the American people of the UNITED STATES.
Home of the FREE AND THE BRAVE, .
WE will keep our god given freedoms at all costs,
How many Americans feel this way,
Lets take a vote,
You think you’re free lol
Hi Larry… I would rather fight than switch….with my vote ..Taking up arms against the dems. is a commie wet dream.Hold Hold Hold patient is a wise virtue.Be polite…and persistent…i was taught that in the un employment office ..Peace out …focus on your preps ….the locus will leave…..
Hi Ki ….Sounds like you are a real nice person….probably nicer than most people….i once asked a nice die hard liberal person like you if its ok to lie….simple yes or no answer ……………..she could not answer my question…. might be a good test to take to find out .whether or not your really a dem. Feel free to comment……i like a friendly debate……. Maga ….It means…..make America great again…..help us…Thanks I try hard not to bite nice people…Even mislead commies
TO Elon…..If we can live on the moon…..we should be able to live on the Earth….Lets try going to the moon again ….and staying……whats the big deal ? The Deep State ? Just saying….smoking weed ain’t that kool …..can be addictive….it really sucked when it was a legal. Ever seen a ghost? They can screw around with any thing electronic so……something to think about when your stoned .
Prep where, when, and as much as you can, do not worry about everything or being perfect, just do something now. Soon as your resources and skills increase focus on “producing” versus only “storing”! Living the self-reliant life style as the daily norm is the true measure of success for pre-disaster (97% probability) and the SHTF possibility. This means gardening, canning, root cellars, animal husbandry, wells, multiple fuel heating options, low power lighting, energy efficient home improvements, and efficient appliances. j
Just doing this gets you farther than most of the population. If you have the resources work on alternative off-grid power sources first targeting lighting and electronics. If you are inclined enjoy hunting and fishing. Focus on an affluent 1880s lifestyle (1945 if you were very rural at the time) with modern low voltage electronics added in. Example: a continuous solar wind system sized to just power LED lighting and electronics with a generator to run (or grid) only when doing laundry or filling water tanks is far more efficient and plausible for the average family versus trying to fund a wind solar system that can power motor loads. Yes you have to schedule/plan when you do laundry and heavy chores with a generator as power, that discipline is also part of the lifestyle.