How You'll Survive The World Collapse

[joel]

Gardening is the best food source.
Coyotes kill must of the small wild game, deer are hunted in good times.
In bad time the hunter will sell the meat like beef, it against the law, if there is any law left.
Many trigger happy people in the woods will scarce the deer away &/or shot at any sound, killing you in the process.
Tree squirrels & barn rat will be the new small game.
So perennial plants will be the main stay & annuals seeds will fill in the gape.
Quail, chickens, ducks, doves, rabbets & pigs are easy to raise, but everyone going to want to take them from you.
Goats, cattle for milk, butter & cheese & meat.
But gardens are gong to be the best way to get food.
The first year will be what you have in storage, unless you are gardening now.

 

[kd4ulw]

My backup plan.

 

[angie_nrs]

My backup plan.

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Dude, wear a coat! Maybe consider some pants too.

 

[Amish Heart]

Is that him, or the neighbor?

 

[kd4ulw]

Is that him, or the neighbor?

Time will tell.

 

[LadyLocust]

@Tirediron Earlier today, you mentioned being able to do things "the old way." I can't seem to find it or figure out what thread it's in But I'm using this thread because it fits. I too think in those lines. I am reading the Little House series for the first time - one thing that amazes me is they pack up and leave in a day and travel for long distances and set up and have home: beds, food, etc. in short order. I had a friend who has passed but said when he was little, his bed was like a box filled with cedar boughs then covered with a blanket then his bedding. He remembered it being nice and cozy. Little things like that in addition to the bigger how-tos are good to know.

 

[Tootsie]

@Tirediron Earlier today, you mentioned being able to do things "the old way." I can't seem to find it or figure out what thread it's in But I'm using this thread because it fits. I too think in those lines. I am reading the Little House series for the first time - one thing that amazes me is they pack up and leave in a day and travel for long distances and set up and have home: beds, food, etc. in short order. I had a friend who has passed but said when he was little, his bed was like a box filled with cedar boughs then covered with a blanket then his bedding. He remembered it being nice and cozy. Little things like that in addition to the bigger how-tos are good to know.

I really enjoy Little House materials, too. I reread The Long Winter not too long ago, and was moved by how grain was stored behind a false wall for safekeeping. The wall was built so no one would know about it. Smart thinking, and also thinking outside the box.
If I recall, those great books were challenged as being racist or something. They may or may not be in public schools now. They should be in home libraries. So much wisdom, so many helpful things.
There are a number of Laura Ingalls Wilder books, not just the 8 chapter books.

 

[LadyLocust]

I really enjoy Little House materials, too. I reread The Long Winter not too long ago, and was moved by how grain was stored behind a false wall for safekeeping. The wall was built so no one would know about it. Smart thinking, and also thinking outside the box.
If I recall, those great books were challenged as being racist or something. They may or may not be in public schools now. They should be in home libraries. So much wisdom, so many helpful things.
There are a number of Laura Ingalls Wilder books, not just the 8 chapter books.

I found a trip journal she wrote "On the Way Home" in 1894 for $1 this past weekend so picked it up. In one of the books, she refers to the natives as savages - that's what the hubbub was about.

 

[Tirediron]

@Tirediron Earlier today, you mentioned being able to do things "the old way." I can't seem to find it or figure out what thread it's in But I'm using this thread because it fits. I too think in those lines. I am reading the Little House series for the first time - one thing that amazes me is they pack up and leave in a day and travel for long distances and set up and have home: beds, food, etc. in short order. I had a friend who has passed but said when he was little, his bed was like a box filled with cedar boughs then covered with a blanket then his bedding. He remembered it being nice and cozy. Little things like that in addition to the bigger how-tos are good to know.

I think that I had mentioned the pioneers burning down their shacks to recover the nails, in the Barterability thread, and had mentioned 3rd world country how to videos,
And I am pretty sure that the reference to burning down a shack to save the nails may have come from a Laura Ingals Wilder book.
My nephew and I built a wood fired forge a couple of years ago, never got to welding heat, but pretty sure you could with a bit more effort. life in the early days had to be simple, you had to do everything yourself. just gathering firewood took a large chunk of time.