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Canning Food

Canning is fun.  Whatever you grow or pick may be canned.  Meat too, it’s just a little harder. The only thing I know of that cannot be home canned is pumpkin, but it can be frozen or dried. Water bath canning is the easiest, but tomato and meats need a pressure canner.  Most counties have …

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Security

Learn about this and more in https://www.civildefensemanual.com/ If you do have a successful farm, you’d better be prepared to defend it.  Get organized now, at least in principle.  You don’t have to build any fortifications but you should survey the terrain, plan for what you will build, how you will do it, and how you will …

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USSR Collapse

Historically it is well known that the former Soviet Union was making up fake statistics years before its collapse. I was living in Moscow when the political system collapsed, and along with it distribution, including that of food. Food shops in Moscow, except for bread, were empty. A farm woman my landlady and I met …

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Communications

6 hours agoremovelink Get your portable solar panels, long range walkie-talkies, food, guns and ammo in order. Shortwave radio. A decent 50watt mobile HAM radio on Amazon is in the $250 range, plus antenna.  With that you can hit repeaters if you know the frequencies. Also, a mobile radio operates on 12-13.5 volts…car battery voltage.  …