Apocalypse, how? A preppers' survival guide to the end of the world

We live in uncertain times. With global tensions escalating and unpredictable leaders like Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin in office, increasing numbers of people are turning to self-sufficiency as insurance against disaster. These people are labeled ‘preppers’, a term loaded with baggage thanks to the extreme stereotype imported from the US and enhanced by the media. Richard Sprenger goes in search of the reality of the UK survivalism scene.

New Global Rain Cycles Emerge: Africa vs USA Flood Damage (847)

Adapt 2030 Global Weather Update a/o June 29.
Massive floods across Darfur Region and western Libya, two non related storms dumping a year of rain in less that a week in both locations. New rainfall patterns mimic Roman Grain Growing belt fro 2000 years ago. Mississippi floods diluting the Gulf of Mexico and silting the water column so badly from all time ever recorded record floods that seafood is declining.

WHEAT: growing harvesting processing and making bread

Good to know during hard times...

Why Are We Going OFF GRID?

Danny and Wanda talk about why they are going off-grid in Mississippi...

Adapt 2030 News Update a/o 6/27/19

Grand Solar Minimum... Prepare, adapt, and thrive....

Attracting Big Buck Numbers On Small Parcels

"Beware of the signs that will lead you to not only fewer bucks on your land during the daylight, but even fewer bucks on your land during the night. If you want to have great sex ratios, build a quality herd, create a quality hunt and attract the most bucks in the neighborhood onto your small parcel during the daylight (during the hunting season), then make sure to follow along."

Building Whitetail and Wildlife Cover QUICKLY

Convert an old field into a Pheasant, Rabbit, and White Tail cover.

Colorado Snowpack ⬆4121% India Water ⬇80% Record Cold June

GSM NEWS a/o 6/24/19
Weather all over the globe.

Areas That Will Become More Habitable During the Grand Solar...

Adapt 2010 Update 6/25/19 #209
Grand Solar Minimum Information.
Canada is in big trouble.

CRIMES & COVER-UPS -- Donald Jeffries

Jeffries, the author of the book, talks about government crimes in history, and about the deep state today, and how liberals will stop at nothing to get rid of the Constitution.

DIY: Vegetable Washing Station with Sink

ALL GARDENS NEED ONE OF THESE! Jason shows you how he made this vegetable washing station. I hope this video can give you ideas on how you can make one of your own to fit your needs. See below for resources.



Hose Hookup:
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Hose Quick Connect:
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Why I Stopped Saving Seeds... but plan to start again

The owner of Red Gardens, a wonderful resource of information coming from Ireland, explains why he stopped saving seeds, and why he's going to start up again.

GSM News: How rare is giant hail in Europe? a/o 6/22/19

Grand Solar Minimum News a/o 06/22/19....

DIY: Installing a ZIPLINE thru Forest over Creek

In an emergency, over a creek or canyon, this Zipline may be just the ticket. Perfect escape from terrorists, chasing down a wild boar, or just some family fun on the 4th of July!

DIY: Build An Off-Grid 4/in Rocket Stove for Under $25

Danny, from Deep South Homestead, shows us how to build an outdoor 4 inch Rocket Stove. Perfect for an Off-Grid Summer when you don't want to heat up your kitchen with your wood burning stove. Also good for camping, fishing/hunting trips, or just for an emergency backup when your electric goes off for a while, etc.

DIY: How to Build a 4 WEEK Prepper Style Food Pantry

Hollis and Nancy finally got their Homestead, and have been building up a storage and work space, just for canning, freezing, fermenting, and dehydrating foods. Here, they are giving us ideas for our own spaces, including a potato tower.

GSM News a/o 6/20/19: Swarm of 1,000+ earthquakes in SoCal

"NORTHERN SUMMER BEGINS TOMORROW: Tomorrow is the June solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, and the shortest day in the south. The exact moment of the solstice is 11:54 am EDT on June 21st, when the sun reaches its highest declination on the celestial sphere (+23.5o). That moment marks the beginning of northern summer and southern winter. Wherever you live, Happy Solstice!
http://spaceweather.com/

GSM: Rare Tornado, Large Earthquakes, More Floods 6/19/19

Grand Solar Minimum UpDate a/o 6/19/19

Whitetail Weather Hunting & Barometric Pressure

"The barometric pressure can be the most misleading portion of the weather forecast when it comes to predicting a time to head to the woods to deer hunt. In fact, the BP is a non factor when it comes to picking the best days to hunt a target buck this season."

DIY: A Cheap Temporary Canoe from Plywood!

Lost Wax: "I decided to make a cheap canoe, so I started looking around online. I found a few plans for making plywood canoes and finally settled on the Quick Canoe 155 designed by Michael Storer. Apparently it can be built in a week, however I took a lot longer than that, likely because I spent lots of time trying to make it look pretty :)
This is not a tutorial, more just a look at how I did things."

LINK: DIY Backyard Smokehouse

"To promote top-notch flavors, techniques, and the ability to smoke a greater quantity of food at once, Raichlen details how to build your own personal smokehouse."
Article in Mother Earth News, written by Steven Raichlen.

LINK to Article:  https://tinyurl.com/y5ts7sog

 

LINK: Common Problems with Food Preservation

Learn how to address common issues with canning, pickling, dehydrating, and more.
Article in Mother Earth News, written by Leda Meredith.

LINK to Article:  https://tinyurl.com/yxgc99p2

 

 

Your Life is About to Change ~GSM Update a/o June 18

Soon: Food will be the most valuable thing you have!

LINK: Diagnosing Snakebite Symptoms in Livestock

Depending on where you call home, you may have had the unfortunate experience of dealing with a snakebite on an animal. In today's Daily, Heather Smith Thomas reviews the important steps to follow when your livestock tangles with snakes.

LINK to full article: https://iamcountryside.com/homesteading/diagnosing-snakebite-symptoms-in-horses-and-livestock/

The Real Story of Greenland Ice Melt June 2019 (842)

Grand Solar Minimum Report a/o June 16, 2019

Vibrational Frequency & UV Intensity Changes on Earth (Kate Hart)

ADAPT 2030
Pub 6/15/19 w/Kate Hart about urban gardening in our new weather circumstances...

2 Months Rain in 24hrs UK, 9300 Homes Collapse China

Weather, sun spot info, and current world news pertaining to the Grand Solar Minimum...
(published June 15, 2019)

The Grand Solar Minimum, by the Tiny House Prepper

A tiny house prepper, Bill, talks about the grand solar minimum...

Article Link: Creating an Android Open Source Research Device on Your PC

"Most digital research can be done without any issues on a desktop or laptop computer; however, sometimes you may need to use a mobile device to use particular applications. This guide will provide a walk-through on setting up a virtual Android device on a PC to conduct open source research. Android emulation is also possible on a Mac, but will require a different application."

Link to Full Article: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2018/08/23/creating-android-open-source-research-device-pc/

Link: HT Use Google Earth’s 3-Dimensional View

"It has become abundantly clear that geolocation and remote sensing is fundamental to knowing what happens in conflict areas where it is often too dangerous for journalists, observers and analysts to be present on the ground. This is a satellite-based case study on vetting a three-dimensional view of an area via Google Earth, featuring examples from Syria, Yemen and Sudan."

LINK: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/03/05/how-to-use-google-earths-three-dimensional-view-feat-syria-yemen-sudan/

How Did The Dugout Canoe Survive The Winter?

Storing, and hiding, a dugout canoe for the winter like the Indians did... under water!

DIY: Bushcraft Door Handle, Pizza, Growing Food in the Wild

"With an axe and other hand tools, I bushcraft a wooden door handle for the rustic door on the off grid log cabin that is my sauna, bathhouse in the forest. For dinner, I make pizza from scratch and bake it on my DIY earthen pizza oven that I built last year from sand and clay. It's late spring and I finally hack out a clearing in the forest to grow fruit and vegetables, the next step in my long path to self reliance."
~My Self Reliance

Hunting: Creating A Doe Vacuum On Your Land

"Creating a doe vacuum is easy to do and you consistently don't have to worry about eating the horns. In fact you only have to worry about shooting and hunting mature bucks during the rut, because your land is filled by does the rest of the year. Are you up for the challenge of creating a quality herd and hunt that includes mature bucks the majority of the year?"

Survival Fish Hunting: Make a Spear For Catching/Cooking Fish

Dry Goods Food Storage Idea

Has anyone else thought of storing dry goods... like rice, flour, pancake batter, potato flakes, baking powder/soda, powdered milk, beans, etc... in glass Snapple jars? A set of DollarTree funnels works great for filling them, they have a good airtight lid, rats can't chew through them, are cheaper than canning jars (just save them after you've have their wonderful peach iced tea!) and have an easy pour spout.

Why Sweden is encouraging citizens to become preppers.

Dateline explores why disaster prepping has become a government sanctioned pastime in Sweden, but who or what are they afraid of?

First 15 Foods You Should Stockpile For Disaster

A good stockpile of food will go a long way toward helping you survive the aftermath of any disaster or life crisis, especially when grocery stores are emptied.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that there are people who are not preppers who nevertheless instinctively know to stockpile food. This really isn’t surprising when you consider that through most of mankind’s history, stockpiling food was essential to survival... specifically surviving the winter months. During those months, wildlife is bedded down trying to stay warm and plants are dormant. If one didn’t have a good stockpile of food, their chances of survival were pretty darn slim.

But knowing to stockpile food and knowing what to stockpile are two different things. The vast majority of what the average American family eats is unsuitable for stockpiling, because it falls into one of three categories:

• Junk food – Lots of carbs, lots of sugar, lots of salt and lots of chemicals, but not much nutrition.
• Fresh food – Foods that won’t keep without refrigeration.
• Frozen food – It will begin to spoil within two days of losing electrical power.

So we need to come up with other foods — foods that will give us a lot of nutrition and also have the ability to be stored for a prolonged period of time. Here are what we consider the 15 most important ones:

1. Beans – This is one of the more common survival foods. Not only are beans plentiful and cheap, but they provide a lot of protein — something that’s hard to find without meat.

2. White rice – The perfect companion to beans. An excellent source of carbohydrates, and it stores well. [Note: Don’t store brown rice, which contains oils and will spoil.]

3. Canned vegetables – A good way of adding micro-nutrients to your survival diet. Canned goods keep well, long past the expiration date on the label.

4. Canned fruit – For something sweet, adding canned fruit allows you a nice change of diet. Being canned, they keep as well as the vegetables do.

5. Canned meats – Of all the ways of preserving meat, canning is the most secure in protecting the meat from decomposition. While it doesn’t typically have as good a flavor as fresh meat, it still provides animal protein at the most reasonable price you’ll find.

6. Honey – As long as you can keep the ants out of it, honey keeps forever. Plus, it is beneficial during cold season.

7. Salt – Nature’s preservative. Most means of preserving foods require the use of salt. In addition, our bodies need to consume salt for survival.

8. Pasta products – Pasta is a great source of carbohydrates, allowing you a lot of variety in your cooing. Besides that, it’s a great comfort food for kids. Who doesn’t like spaghetti?

9. Spaghetti sauce – Obviously, you need this to go with the pasta. But it is also great for hiding the flavor of things your family doesn’t like to eat. Pretty much anything, with spaghetti sauce on it, tastes like Italian food — whether you’re talking about some sort of unusual vegetable or a raccoon that you caught pilfering from your garden.

10. Jerky – While expensive to buy, jerky is pure meat, with only the addition of spices. Its high salt content allows it to store well, making it a great survival food. It can be reconstituted by adding it to soups and allowing it to cook.

11. Peanut butter – Another great source of protein and another great comfort food, especially for the kiddies. It might be a good idea to stockpile some jelly to go with it.

12. Wheat flour – For baking, especially baking bread. Bread is an important source of carbohydrates for most Americans. Flour also allows you to shake up the diet with the occasional batch of cookies or a cake.

13. Baking powder & baking soda – Also for making the bread, cookies or cakes.

14. Bouillon – Otherwise known as “soup starter,” this allows you to make the broth without having to boil bones on the stove for hours. Soups will probably be an important part of anyone’s diet in a survival situation, as they allow you to eat almost anything. Just throw it together in a pot and you’ve got soup.

15. Water – We don’t want to forget to stockpile a good supply of water. You’ll go through much more than you expect. Experts recommend a minimum of one gallon per person per day, but remember: That’s just for drinking.

While this doesn’t constitute a complete list of every type of food that you should stockpile, it’s a good starting point. You’ll want more variety than this, but in reality, your family can survive for quite a while with just the 15 things on this list.

As your stockpile grows, add variety to it. One way of doing that is to create a three-week menu, with the idea of repeating that menu over and over. If you have everything you need to cook everything on that menu, you’ll have a fair assortment of food, and enough so that your family shouldn’t grow tired of it.

~ original article from Before It's News, June 5th, 2019
https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/alternative/2019/3686417.html

Boom: The Deadliest Slingshot You’ve Ever Seen

In an emergency, this silent weapon can have deadly force. Slingshots have long been used in hunting small game, such as rabbits, doves, and squirrels. An advantage of this is that it does not require ammunition, making it ideal for teaching kids about self-reliance. In an emergency situation where you have run out of ammunition, this modest weapon could be converted into a more powerful tool. Dave Canterbury of Pathfinder School originally came up with the ingenious idea of taking an everyday slingshot and tweaking it so one can kill larger game, and these silent weapons can have deadly force. With a “sling bow”, you have a huge range of mobility, unlike with a bow. As well, the lightweight of this makes it an ideal addition to a bug out bag or a get home bag. Using this type of sling bow requires accuracy. Therefore, consistent practicing is key in developing an ability to aim proficiently at a target.

Using the instructions in this video, you can turn a modest slingshot into a large animal killing machine: https://youtu.be/-6LxKfpAPYA
If you don’t have the time for this weapon conversion, there are bow slings that can be purchased. I suggest adding heavy-duty pull bands and full-size arrows to the purchase.

~This article was originally published by Tess Pennington at Ready Nutrition. 

Gravity Fed Water: Cleaning with a Trash Pump

Dan and Chelsea show us their mountain spring, creek, well and trash pump, and what needs to be done to it every so often.

When There Are Food Riots, Are Governments Ready?

Why is there a Police State everywhere?

Weather Update: Welcome to Hurricane Season June 3rd 2019

GSM: Current Weather Update June 3rd, 2019...

Two Years in the Wilderness to Build Off Grid Log Cabin

One man leaves city life behind to build an off grid log cabin and homestead in the Canadian wilderness. Includes a log home, an outdoor kitchen, an outhouse, a woodshed and a sauna bathhouse. Building mostly with hand tools, Shawn James harvests building materials from the forests north of Toronto, Canada and crafts them into functional tools and shelters using traditional woodworking tools and methods. He practices bushcraft and survival skills every day, including fire starting, tree identification and harvesting, wild edible foraging, fishing, hunting, camping in the summer and winter, travelling by canoe and snowshoe, navigation and water collection and purification, plants a forest garden for fruit and vegetables, builds an underground root cellar, ice house and cheese cave, a timber frame workshop and a remote hunt camp closer to fish and game. Video lasts 1:31:39 so go make some popcorn first.

Top 5 Spring Deer Food Plot Plantings

"When should perennial crops like clover and chicory be established? Not in the Spring. Instead, perennials should be planted during the late Summer where they can aided by a cool season cover crop that deer crave, at a time when moisture is increasing and weeds are dying. However, there are 5 great food plot varieties that you should be planting during the Spring, to get a jump on your Fall whitetail success."

How To Get your Home Ready for Hurricane Season

Article in Bankrate by Terry Sheridan.
"Gas up before the storm. Fuel up your vehicles and emergency power generator well ahead of time to avoid last-minute lines at the pump."
LINK to Article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/how-to-get-your-home-ready-for-hurricane-season/ar-AABOwTZ?ocid=ientp 

How To Begin Building A Top Whitetail Parcel Right Now

"Food established where does bed, bucks bed, the daily deer movement and then of course how you access the land and finally where you hunt. This is the same concept on public land - find the daily food source, and then you can begin to unravel a mature bucks entire daily movement. Did you begin your parcel the right way? If not, here are the steps that you need to begin with, so that you can lay the foundation of the best deer parcel in the neighborhood, this Fall."

Preparing for a Killer Frost When Growing Your own Food

If you are growing your own food, you need to take into consideration that we are heading into a Grand Solar Minimum (shorter hotter summers, and longer colder winters). If you are in Zone 7, you may want to start using Zone 6's USDA recommended dates for starting and ending your planting times.