If you’ve ever thought about some incubating chicken eggs and starting a flock of your own, here’s a quick primer on incubating chicken eggs. As of this writing, this year’s batch just passed the two-week mark. How are they so…
Producing your own food is an important goal. Gardens grow veggies and grains. Hunting (or husbandry) provide meat. Sweetener is another matter. Making your own maple syrup is useful and rewarding. Winter: everything is frozen and buried under snow. It’s…
New Hampshire has gotten a long spell of subzero temperatures lately. We’ve had -10 at the house overnight. Daytime “highs” were in single digits. While we put on a thicker sweater and sit closer to the wood stove, what about…
EMPs or CMEs are statistical possibilities but hackers are a lot more plentiful and therefore a lot more likely to be the cause of the grid going down. There was a recent (9/06/17) story in the online WIRED magazine (link…
Once again, I set out to spend a night in the woods testing the contents of my Bug Out Bag. Based on my experience with Test 1.0, I made some changes. This was a test to see if they were…