For me, one of those little luxuries that can help a severe supply disruption not feel so crisis-y, is coffee. The conventional wisdom on long-term storage of coffee said you had to buy and vacuum-sealing green coffee beans, then roast…
Actually, Book 6: The Summer of Wood & Iron has been available since November of ’24. I’ve been remiss in posting here. This book continues the series, picking up where Book 5: Critical Spring left off. Now the people of…
Even you constructed your chicken coop out concrete block, or perhaps welded plate steel, a determined predator can find a way in. There are always weak points. Think doors for you or the chickens. Weak point. Think air vents. Weak…
There’s been no posts here for exactly a year? What’s up with that? Had I fallen in a volcano? Eaten by cannibals? Or, more seriously, had I just thrown in the blogging towel? None of the above. Thankfully, especially not…
The topic of a recent Prepper Zoom Meetup was: “If you had 30 minutes notice to bug out, what would you take?” I said, my Quick Camper Kit as emergency mobile shelter. A few of the attendees wanted to see…
The very same day that the bobcat took our rooster, I started collecting eggs that the hens were laying. A hen can remain fertile many days after a mating, so I figured (hoped) that the eggs they laid that same…
A sad day at the homestead. Our rooster was taken by the bobcat, and in mid-afternoon too! I was in the house when he struck. I had been out in the front of the house, cutting up fallen branches with…
The second dozen eggs I had stored in lime-water last May was now 10 months old. Time for the second taste test. How did they do? Read on. I tested the first of the two half-gallon jars of stored eggs…
