ARE YOU PREPARED FOR DISASTER? (page 4)

Brother Apostate

If you don't know how to make a bow drill or hand drill, how to gather/keep tinder, how to find water, how to make weapons, how to hunt/trap, how to build shelter, what plants are edible/poison, etc, then you are NOT prepared.

Only those who have learned these special skills are truly prepared.

If you desire to do so, then I'd suggest reading and practicing those skills found in the book "Outdoor Survival Skills" by Larry Dean Olen, no finer text exists on the subject.

There is a course based on Larry's work offered at Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS). link here:

http://www.boss-inc.com/08history.html

There's also useful information on the web:

http://www.m4040.com/Survival/Survival.htm

Unless one practices these skills, your chance of survival after a major disaster (the kind likely to happen in the near future) is dim.

BA- Nothing like a dose of reality.

tula

A Year Round Food Supply for the cost of a few stamps

Yep. you heard right.

There are some seed and plant exchange websites on the internet and also in some of the gardening magazines. It's all swap...no money involved. I have gotton some really excellent trades and some wonderful plants.

When I started out, I didn't have much to trade. I helped a friend with some yard work and she let me have her seeds from 4 o'clocks and the milkweeds. I collected seeds from trees in a local park. I clipped little snips of jasmine from the mall parking lot. I found various plants in public places and would get a handful of seeds when I could. If I didn't know what the plant was, I would look it up in a wildflower or tree book.

One of the easiest books to use for identification is the North American Field Guide series. You can look it up according to color, or leaf shape, tree shape, fruit or berry, shape or color.

People trade for seeds, cuttings, rooted plants and trade for likewise. One of the best internet forums is gardenweb.

On trades alone I now have several fruit trees that are a good size and lots of heirloom vegetable seeds, as well as flowers for butterflies, and herbs, catnip for my cat...

If I can't find what I want on a trade basis, I will order from a wholesale ccompany. You pay about the same price for 1/4 lb of seeds as you would for a retail package of 50 seeds.

Not only will you have plenty of food that has not been irradiated and processed. If your produce is abundant you can sell or trade to friends and neighbors for cash or barter. Good to have some back up assets, what with the dollar being so rapidly devalued.

EVERYBODY HAS SPACE FOR A SIDEWALK SALAD!!!

MsMcDucket

I've got some hard tack and jerky! Just get some water stored and some cow chips, and I'll be set!! Oh! I'm sure that my husband can get some MRE's and some water purification pills.

If Mom was here, I wouldn't have to worry! Man, she was old school! That woman could make stone soup!

MsMcDucket

Air drying would kill me! I'm allergic to everything! I can imagine wheezing to death on the pollen and the mold spores in the sheets! And if I did wake up, I wouldn't be able to open my eyes because they'd be swollen shut! And my nose would be stuffy! And...misery...

Hell, if there's no pharmacy, I might as well die! Where am I going to get my medications!?

tula

All right, Ms. Duckett.

In the near future, I will try to cover some things on natural healing and herbs for emergencies. Hope you will check back.

MsMcDucket

natural healing and herbs for emergencies

I remember a story about a woman surviving an airplane crash in the jungle. She had this big gash in her arm. Some flies laid some eggs in there and the maggots ate up all the infection that developed. It saved her arm!

Tula, I don't want any therapy that has live bugs!

tula

Well, it's not exactly live bugs..... but it comes from live "bugs"

what I would recommend for your allergies is RAW honey. Not store bought. (store bought honey has been treated and pasteruized and all the beneficial enzymes are destroyed.)

Dark honey is best. Dark honey has a higher mineral concentration.

Some people say to buy honey from your local area, but that is not always the best. In areas of hard winter, unless the beekeepers move their bees out to southern locations, some will feed their bees sugar water to get them through the winter. Your honey is only as potent as what it comes from. If it is not 100% pure flower nectar, you will not get the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes.

Mrs. McDuckett, many people are exposed to the same pollens, mold, and dust that you are. The reason it does not effect them so badly is because their immune systems are probably stronger. Honey can help to build your immune system.

Not only is it good for allergies, it's handy for wounds and burns and speeds healing time. Bacteria cannot live in honey. Honey destroys the bacteria in a cut, burn or wound.

Just try raw honey and see if it works for you. I know many people who swear by it.

MsMcDucket

My nephew that lives in Connecticut only has problems with his allergies when he comes to Kansas. He swells up like a balloon as soon as he gets off the plane! Maybe, I should move to a different state. Somewhere without dust and plants? Hmmm??? The polar icecap!

tula

there is a very good article on cnn.com entitled "Doctors turning sweet on healing with honey" if you care to look it up.

John Doe

Make sure the honey is from wherever he's having problems with allergies.

ARE YOU PREPARED FOR DISASTER?

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