May
21
Last week, I stumbled across a unique blog while looking for some food storage information. Reading Bruddah Aloha’s post on how his family acquires buckets for their food storage, I decided I might share a few of my own localized tips (ranked from least favorable to best):
Online: This is an option for either those who live [...]
May
16
Survival School
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Becoming stranded or lost while hiking in Utah, while not very frequent, is a real danger that even the most prepared individuals can succumb to. While I typically find local news stories more amusing than helpful, KTNV in Nevada ran a piece last week giving a few pointers on surviving in the desert if you [...]
May
14
Plenty of reasons to prepare
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Canada news organizations really have some interesting things to say on occasion. I just read an article titled, “The world’s worst natural disasters“. If you ever needed a reason to kick yourself into action, it provides some pretty good arguments. While the events occur around the world, I think the point to take away is [...]
May
14
Just bought a Nutrimill
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We’ve been baking our own wheat bread for over three months now. It tastes so good you wouldn’t believe it, and I think we almost have our recipe down 100%. The only downside is we’re using a manual mill at this point. It made sense in the beginning because we wanted to make sure we [...]
May
13
Blog: Our SQUARE FOOT GARDEN
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While searching for gardening resources (especially square foot gardening), I stumbled across Eve’s personal blog about her experiences, and success, with this type of gardening. I wish our boxes and plants were doing as well!
Link: Our SQUARE FOOT GARDEN
EDIT: It looks like this blog no longer exists. Too bad, I enjoyed reading the RSS…