I have nothing but the utmost of respect for the FEMA agents who are sincerely attempting to do their very best in the face of disaster. Let me be quick to clarify that my statements have NO reflection upon individuals who have attempted to work within the systems that are currently in place. The character …
Yearly Archives: 2012
Hurricane Sandy Looting Planned via Twitter
If you get the opportunity to read this article and are in the path of the storm named Sandy (I suggest you do so quickly) then be sure to take a look at the hash-tags in the twitter feeds planning to gather and do looting. #Sandy. There is no mistaking that this is a recent …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
Although we are not the Joneses, we’re the Millers, the old adage mentioned in the subject line came to mind as I was lamenting having not updated you lately about the recent radio shows and our preparedness journey. So, after this brief side-note about that saying, I do promise to truly update you where I …
Bugging Out to Start Bugging In
What term suits your family’s preparedness plan better? Bugging Out (high tailing it out of Dodge to a safe haven) or Bugging In (hunkering down with what you have on hand and making the best of it while fortified where you are). What about bugging out and bugging in? What would that look like? For …
Learn Off-Grid Skills: Outdoor Dutch Oven Cooking Class
Yesterday we had a class that was facilitated by Millers Grain House with a Guest instructor: Carolyn Counts. This class also reached into the Preparedness arena. Many of the classes from MGH are designed to serve both the healthy food enthusiast and the preparedness minded. It is our way of bringing the message of Preparation …
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Agriculture – Prices at Record High
The painful phrase “I told you so” is one I hate to use. Unless it is being said to someone who has already heeded some other advice we gave out early this year (January to be precise) which was “Stock up on food NOW because after the first half of the year, we suspect staples …
Are you Always Ready?
Seriously are you always ready? For anything? For everything? Completely? I think in a real world scenario, this is more of a percentage question than a yes or no question. We are often faced with a sense of ‘never quite done’ when living the preparedness lifestyle. I mean if this were 200 years ago, we …
What’s your Label? Homesteaders or Hippie
Through-out this journey of learning to be more self-sustaining, responsible for what we own and frugal we have been labeled many things. Some of them have been more favorable labels than others. Some, which were intended as insults I now embrace with a smile. Although given the twenty five years along this journey, I doubt …
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Back to Basic Skills
Interestingly enough with all the conveniences of our modern day, we have still managed to fill the extra time with things that really don’t matter. So many people are feeling to tug to learn skills that our ancestors had as they used them to enjoy a life of simplicity. I hope you’ll consider joining us …
Have no fear, zombies are already here.
Admittedly, if there is one thing in the Preparedness circles that really chaps my hide it’s the topic of zombies. Other than spouting off how many guns and how much ammo we have on hand, should have on hand or need to stash somewhere (can you say: “Just put a David Coresh shaped target on …