Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[C-Mag]

Many projects completed lately. Bedroom renovation is done, stair carpet installed, garden is tilled.

I have to say, I'm particularly proud of our soil. We went from raw clay 2 years ago, to a rich loam, just using compost, peat moss, and lawn clippings. It's amazing how much can be done with simple changes.

Good man.
I've got soil work to do myself.

How often do you til your soil.

Just once a year. Two passes with the big rear-tine from Home Depot.

I have 5lbs of organic spring wheat seeds in the mail, and am planning to grow winter wheat as well, if it works out. Fresh bread forever, and no chemicals.

It's kind of amazing how little effort it takes to make a real difference on a project like that. It's work, and some times hard work, but in retrospect not all that much.

Most of my ground hasn't been tilled for 40 to 50 years, pretty compacted and hard to dig. When I dug the foundation for my shop I was pleasantly surprised to see rich, black earth behing turned over. Just need a tractor now to break up ground. I'm hoping to have my soil in good shape in the next 3 years. Right now I only have potatoes, chives, and rhubarb planted. Plus a few herbs in the window sill.

Good on you for the wheat BroGrump.

[C-Mag]

NY Times now Doomsday Preppers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/maga ... .html?_r=0

How to Build a Fallout Shelter
Start with .........a “protective envelope” of concrete and reinforced steel rebar with walls between one foot and 2-feet-7-inches thick............Cache food, water, a toilet, something to sleep on and a radio. How much you’ll need will depend on how long you intend to stay. In the first 24 hours after a Hiroshima-like nuclear explosion, large particles of hazardous radioactive material rain to the ground.

[SuburbanFarmer]

NY Times now Doomsday Preppers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/maga ... .html?_r=0

How to Build a Fallout Shelter
Start with .........a “protective envelope” of concrete and reinforced steel rebar with walls between one foot and 2-feet-7-inches thick............Cache food, water, a toilet, something to sleep on and a radio. How much you’ll need will depend on how long you intend to stay. In the first 24 hours after a Hiroshima-like nuclear explosion, large particles of hazardous radioactive material rain to the ground.

Or just buy a house with a basement.

[TheReal_ND]

Nah. You want to camouflage your spider hole so no one knows it's there. You'll have to wait for everyone to starve to death before you can come out and start shooting the survivors for loot. Also bring a sword in case you run into TC and challenge him to a highlander style duel.

Also, 2'7'' thick? That's oddly specific.

[C-Mag]

Nah. You want to camouflage your spider hole so no one knows it's there. You'll have to wait for everyone to starve to death before you can come out and start shooting the survivors for loot. Also bring a sword in case you run into TC and challenge him to a highlander style duel.

Also, 2'7'' thick? That's oddly specific.

I want to see the BroGrump v TC Highlander Duel in the Wastelands of FUSA. BroGrump with his Hijab wearing Haram behind him and TC with his tobacca spittin inbred rednecks behind him.


2' 7" Assuredly came from some Cold War Civil Defense Manual. Cause, if it's only 2' 6" thick and well built......... your dead

[SuburbanFarmer]

Nah. You want to camouflage your spider hole so no one knows it's there. You'll have to wait for everyone to starve to death before you can come out and start shooting the survivors for loot. Also bring a sword in case you run into TC and challenge him to a highlander style duel.

Also, 2'7'' thick? That's oddly specific.

I want to see the BroGrump v TC Highlander Duel in the Wastelands of FUSA. BroGrump with his Hijab wearing Haram behind him and TC with his tobacca spittin inbred rednecks behind him.


2' 7" Assuredly came from some Cold War Civil Defense Manual. Cause, if it's only 2' 6" thick and well built......... your dead

[C-Mag]

I recently was thinking about what it must be like to be living in Syria right now, the best reference we might have for it is Sarejevo in the 90s

[Ex-California]

NY Times now Doomsday Preppers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/maga ... .html?_r=0

How to Build a Fallout Shelter
Start with .........a “protective envelope” of concrete and reinforced steel rebar with walls between one foot and 2-feet-7-inches thick............Cache food, water, a toilet, something to sleep on and a radio. How much you’ll need will depend on how long you intend to stay. In the first 24 hours after a Hiroshima-like nuclear explosion, large particles of hazardous radioactive material rain to the ground.

Or just buy a house with a basement.

Those don't exist out here

[SuburbanFarmer]

NY Times now Doomsday Preppers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/maga ... .html?_r=0

How to Build a Fallout Shelter
Start with .........a “protective envelope” of concrete and reinforced steel rebar with walls between one foot and 2-feet-7-inches thick............Cache food, water, a toilet, something to sleep on and a radio. How much you’ll need will depend on how long you intend to stay. In the first 24 hours after a Hiroshima-like nuclear explosion, large particles of hazardous radioactive material rain to the ground.

Or just buy a house with a basement.

Those don't exist out here

Then why would a bomb shelter be safe from earthquakes? And you can be sure that any nuclear explosion in California would set off The Big One.
Move off of the earthquake shelf.

[Ex-California]

Or just buy a house with a basement.

Those don't exist out here

Then why would a bomb shelter be safe from earthquakes? And you can be sure that any nuclear explosion in California would set off The Big One.
Move off of the earthquake shelf.

I don't think the lack of basements is due to earthquake fears, its because of low topsoil levels and hard clay in general