Survival

..., for a bigger disaster such as economic collapse.  Still thinking about this a bit.  In the meantime I'm doing a lot of reading: http://www.equipped.org/ http://www.survivalblog.com/ http://tslrf.blogspot.com/ http://theurbansurvivalist.blogspot.com/ http://suburbanprepper.wordpress.com/ I'm also going to experiment with baking my own wholegrain bread this weekend.  If I like the ...

Not to be alarmist or anything...

...but a letter on SurvivalBlog tonight claims that the food shortages ai731 cites in her last post are starting to be noticed in Western Canada . Think I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow.

... concern by survivalists who view the phenomenon as a harbinger of more serious trouble to come. “It’s sporadic. It’s not every store, but it’s becoming more commonplace,” the editor of SurvivalBlog.com , James Rawles , said. “The number of reports I’ve been getting from readers who have seen signs posted with limits has increased almost exponentially, I’d say in the last three to five weeks.”...

A couple of interesting articles came over the feeds last night...

... us, we are going to be in for some very, very tough times. And if civilisation stays down for a while, rebuilding is going to take more than flipping a switch and turning the power back on. And survivalblog 's Jim Rawles has stated his precepts of survivalism . It's rather interesting to note that he's putting a lot of emphasis on what this comm is about, i.e. acquiring useful skills, ...

Adventures in Container Gardening

survivalblog.com !!! Ookay. I've been trying to grow a tomato plant for months now. The past few times were all half-hearted. Either I put it too close to the front door and it got little sun, or I forgot to water it daily, or it got eaten by bugs or a bird! GAH! Now I'm trying again, but I've bought a nicer pot and better dirt. :P Heirloom seeds. I know I'm wasting em with each failed try. Dude. ...

A few resources...

... great way of staying abreast of the best in breaking bad news. survivalblog : this is a feed I created for J.K Rawles' SurvivalBlog . It is a very popular survivalist blog, and the archives contain ... And it's Ontario-oriented, which is nice. And lastly, yesterday survivalblog posted a link a massive list of survival/self-sufficiency links here...