[Njorun38]

This is a really great idea, I would love to see more communities doing this at the park and local farmer’s markets. Awesome that you’re doing this!

[Njorun38]

In regards to the Lisa meme: “

Regardless of

whether or not you believe climate change is

“real”, EVERYONE should oppose global totalitarian government as a solution”

Exactly. I for one think that the climate change happening in my local area makes it pretty clear that massive and rapid unnatural shifts are happening— I don’t particularly care to argue about this with denialists, I know what I see in my own back yard and it’s not natural. Whether you believe it’s greenhouse gas pollution, or top secret government weather machines and geo-engineering going on to control the public, I’ll leave that up to you to decide, but it’s definitely not natural. We went from having 6 month winters with 6 feet of snow to 4 month winters with 3 feet of snow over the last few years and a significantly smaller water table. Something fvcky is going on here, that’s all I gotta say about that.

But when government tries to make it IMPOSSIBLE to farm so that people can eat, make it impossible for people to buy homes to live in, and impossible to drive to work without being outpriced for everything, while the corporations that ostensibly create the most pollution are still operating with business as usual, cutting down rainforests and pumping pollutants into the atmosphere with only a marginally higher tax to their billions in profit… and the rest of us can’t even afford a steak for dinner. That is tyranny. And it is evil. And it doesn’t even remotely solve the problem they claim they want to solve (and that they possibly intentionally created to have an excuse to control people).

[Njorun38]

First of all, bio-char seems cool in its own right. As for the composting thing… I’m skeptical of the whole “composting creates carbon emissions” thing. It’s not like burning fossil fuels or mining— this has gotten out of hand, far away from a well-intentioned minimizing of the excesses of harmful industrial gasses, to nitpicking the very foundations of life, while still letting corporations get away with massive amounts of industrial pollution. They want us to minimize nitrogen in farming, fertilizer, etc., and minimize carbon in composting. Well, plenty of important life-saving medicines create nitrogen, and breathing creates carbon. Just plant more trees and try to get off of fossil fuels, do more decentralized family farming instead of industrial farming. That’s it. Let’s not make it more complicated than it has to be, or next they’ll start taxing us for breathing. Composting is creating a negligible amount of carbon— it’s just the decaying process of nature, it will happen with or without our help because it is a fundamental law of how nature works in the cycle of life. Just grow enough trees to make it balanced on a global scale. No need to nitpick that which is vitally necessary.

[Njorun38]

Glutamate supplements (a nitrogen transporter), and stinging nettle tea. Dr. Christoper’s Complete Bone & Tissue also good— it helps with cramps that are caused by fascia and not just muscles. Get fascia-release ball rollers and do myofascial release stretches. Get enough potassium and magnesium in you.

[Njorun38]

Well said. I think having resources like this is gonna be pivotal for the health of communities when SHTF. Being able to freely share and exchange information, and help each other get started with the basics, is gonna be crucial. There’s gonna come a time when being gifted a bell pepper and some oranges is going to be a lot more valuable than the latest iphone for Christmas, because it can be propagated and renewed for years. I’m also interested in getting reliable sturdy hardware that can be hooked up to a mesh network to talk with global independent journalists, homesteaders and preppers in the event that the internet (and possibly government run postal mail) gets so insanely censored as to be practically unusable, that a mesh network with nodes across a wider area becomes the only way to get in touch with people in written form. That and I suspect radio are going to be some of the only options one day. You hope not, but you never know, always good to be prepared.

[Njorun38]

Lmao

[Njorun38]

Also trade schools tend to cost significantly less, so even if you can’t find a high paying job it still isn’t that hard

[Njorun38]

“One part of me wants to be a minimalist, the other part a prepper”— and another part of me wants to live in a romantic era gothic-fairy cottage haha. Word! I totally feel you. I

think the key here is balance. Those parts of you don’t have to be at war, they just need to shake hands and figure it out.

I didn’t just get into prepping alone, my mother also preps for her house, and I’m not gonna lie, it’s pretty incredible seeing the transformation. When I was a young child, if we didn’t put toys away and consistently made a huge mess, my military father would have us clean the kitchen floor with a new toothbrush. Now, my parents live in a bunker with clutter everywhere. As much as I feel my upbringing was a little too strict at times, I appreciate that I value not having too much clutter. Not a perfectly sterile environment, still “lived in,” but no clutter in the corners and all over the floor and tables, for sure. I always have some open space for my mind to breathe in. My parents, however, their living space is nothing like I remember growing up. They don’t even have a space on the floor anymore for where they used to put the Christmas tree when I was growing up— it’s all covered in full bags and boxes of “very important stuff.” At some point, something’s gotta give. What are you realistically going to use in a SHTF situation? How much do you need for 6 months to a year of supplies? Can you maybe build an outdoor shed in your yard and lock it up until the SHTF situation comes, and get that stuff off your floors and tables? My parents already have the extra garage, and it’s so full of “important prepping stuff” that they don’t park the cars inside it. Something’s gotta give man, it’s not a mentally healthy space to breathe in with that much clutter. Whenever I enter my own living space, I breathe a sigh of relief after being around my parents.

You just gotta ask yourself and be honest with your answer, knowing yourself, “Even if the SHTF, am I *really* gonna use this?” Odds are, a lot of times, the answer is no, and it can be thrown away, donated, or sold.

[Njorun38]

Unfortunately literally everything is problematic. I agree don’t intentionally dump pesticides out of a can and spray it all over your food, but realistically, unless you live in a utopia where no one uses pesticides or GMO seeds for miles and miles, eventually you’re gonna get some of that pesticide through rain runoff, acid rain, intentionally government plotted train derailment “accidents”, etc. Best to not personally use the stuff directly, and do everything you can to filter your water good on your homestead, and have a good herbal detox program for your body. Nobody is gonna completely avoid pesticides. Composting a literal pile of toxic waste is as good an option as any, at least it will get smaller instead of bigger.