For those with no time to read, this is the first chapter, in podcast/audio form of Book 1.
Book 1 goes audio! Here’s Chapter 1
My Newest Book Released on Amazon
Escape From The City My most recent release on Amazon is something different for post-apocalyptic survival fiction. This story is set several generations in the future. It started with a thought experiment. What if some future world government forced everyone…
Got Chicks! The Broody Hens Deliver.
This past Tuesday Broody’s eggs started to hatch. She had two up and cheeping around. Sumo, the other broody hen, wasn’t supposed to start hatching until Friday, but she had a couple hatched on Tuesday too. Then, I remembered that…
Too Much of a Good Thing: Breaking a Broody Hen
Having a hen go broody is a sustainability blessing, but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. I was trying to induce my hen that usually goes broody to get into the mothering mood but I…
Gear Test: Poop in a bucket for two weeks
For many preppers out there, how to “go” sustainably after SHTF, is potentially a big problem. Bugging in is a popular strategy but many homes depend on municipal sewer and water. Where do you “go” when your toilets stop working?…
How To Dehydrate Eggs for long-term storage
What do you do when springtime has your chickens laying more eggs than you can (or should) eat? We give some away, but I’m also saving my surplus for next winter when the hens stop laying. I am making powdered eggs. If you have a dehydrator, you can too!
Long-term Food: Growing and Storing as a solution
Our approach to long-term food storage is two-pronged. The more active prong is improved sustainability — growing new food each year. Stored food eventually runs out. The only sustainable long-term food solution is to make new food.
Three Sisters Soup: Eat What You Grow
If you grow a garden to be less dependent upon industrial food, or as a survival skill, a useful exercise is to try making a meal out of only what you grew in your garden. We have become so accustomed…
Can You Run Your Refrigerator From Batteries?
One of the big concerns during a power outage is that all the food in your fridge will spoil. To prevent that, preppers buy generators. Fridges used so much power that driving them from batteries was not practical…until now. We…