Hubby tilled the upper garden
seen here:
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And I finally got my garden seeds started in the Vent-O-Matic hothouse:
Link for the vent -o-matic - all I got was industrial fans
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What have you done this week to prep?
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Link for the vent -o-matic - all I got was industrial fans
Sorry, longbow... I don't think they are made any more.
I tried to find them last fall and searched exhaustively to no avail.
I'd like another one myself, so I can double my capacity.
I think I originally bought it out of the back of a seed catalog, but can't even remember which one.
Well, in a way...we went shooting yesterday.....200 rounds of 45ACP, a few boxes of 20 ga buck and played w/ my poor mans version of a SAW...7.62 X 39 RPK.......about 80 rounds. Firsast time my Son & wife shot the RPK...from prone position and they claimed sore shoulders....ha!
eldirector
Grandmaster
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And I finally got my garden seeds started in the Vent-O-Matic hothouse:
Looking good! My FIL is building a hothouse for us this week. The seeds are germinating in the spare bedroom already. I am building cabinets for canned goods storage this weekend. Hung the "reloading supplies" cabinet in my workshop/garage last weekend, and just need to start stocking it.
Baby steps!
shibumiseeker
Grandmaster
Had a tree cut down in my back yard in order to provide my (soon to be) garden two more hours of sunlight.
Bought a rear-tine tiller and rabbit fence for the garden perimeter.
I hope those veggies taste real good this year, because they sure are expensive.
Bought a rear-tine tiller and rabbit fence for the garden perimeter.
I hope those veggies taste real good this year, because they sure are expensive.
ThrottleJockey
Shooter
Well, I've just completed a 2 month trial run living almost entirely on my surplus of supplies. We did go to the grocer for milk, butter and cheese but all other food was from the pantry. Heated with wood (and a bit of propane), kept the electric on and the internet. Found a few weak spots in my preps, bread uses flour faster than I thought, juice for the kids was thinned with water to last longer and need a bigger supply. In a real SHTF scenario I can see a definite need for a couple of milking goats and some laying hens w/rooster. More detailed report to follow, but overall a complete success with enough of most supplies to last at least another 6-8 months the way we are and due to the fact that weak spots were found and are being dealt with. Another thing to be considered is the strain it put on my relationship w/wife probably due to being up each others backside 24/7. That's a BIG consideration that no one ever seems to address, but I am now!
ETA: Running short on beer but plenty of the hard stuff to last a year or more
ETA: Running short on beer but plenty of the hard stuff to last a year or more
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WhitleyStu
Keep'em Scary Sharp!!!
New battery and Battery Tender for the generator.
We did a couple of neat things this week in addition to the basics:
I did the normal stuff; added another #10 can of freeze dried food, bought extra canned goods and put them in storage, rotated some of the older stuff up to the kitchen pantry.
The two neat things we did we did because we feel pretty good about our preps and we want to expand to add a few luxuries. My wife bought a dwarf orange tree that she intends to pot and keep indoors.
The other cool thing is that my family (me, wife, my dad and my cousin who lives in the house behind me) all home brew. We mostly make wine. Wine is easy to produce and we have lots of fruit trees and grape vines growing on the property. Even in a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario if you have fruit or flowers and a few basic items you can make wine. We have discussed that continuing wine production in TEOTWAWKI would give us a renewable source of trade goods.
Although we also brew beer, beer is a bit tougher and it takes a few more steps and ingredients to produce than it does to make wine. So, my luxury prep this year is that in addition to our normal order of seeds from Gurney's I ordered a hops vine. The little guy arrived yesterday. He just looks like a bag of dirt. I'm going to plant him in the fence row and I should have 25' or so of hops by late August.
I doubt that I would ever produce beer in the same volume that I could produce wine under primitive conditions, but, having the only case of beer (actually my typical run produces about 25 pints) could make things interesting in TEOTWAWKI.
Again, these are things that I consider "luxury preps" that we got more for fun than absolute neccessity.
I did the normal stuff; added another #10 can of freeze dried food, bought extra canned goods and put them in storage, rotated some of the older stuff up to the kitchen pantry.
The two neat things we did we did because we feel pretty good about our preps and we want to expand to add a few luxuries. My wife bought a dwarf orange tree that she intends to pot and keep indoors.
The other cool thing is that my family (me, wife, my dad and my cousin who lives in the house behind me) all home brew. We mostly make wine. Wine is easy to produce and we have lots of fruit trees and grape vines growing on the property. Even in a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI scenario if you have fruit or flowers and a few basic items you can make wine. We have discussed that continuing wine production in TEOTWAWKI would give us a renewable source of trade goods.
Although we also brew beer, beer is a bit tougher and it takes a few more steps and ingredients to produce than it does to make wine. So, my luxury prep this year is that in addition to our normal order of seeds from Gurney's I ordered a hops vine. The little guy arrived yesterday. He just looks like a bag of dirt. I'm going to plant him in the fence row and I should have 25' or so of hops by late August.
I doubt that I would ever produce beer in the same volume that I could produce wine under primitive conditions, but, having the only case of beer (actually my typical run produces about 25 pints) could make things interesting in TEOTWAWKI.
Again, these are things that I consider "luxury preps" that we got more for fun than absolute neccessity.
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