Trainwreck hoooooo
Yesterday we had a number of trees removed/ topped/ thinned and hauled away.
Today I am going to slow cook my biggest pile. Buddy to help me and tarps are pulled and hoses ran.
I am gearing up for food production.
Not because I want too but because I think we are going to need too.
If things go south I am prepared. Have a couple who are like minded and have prepped but live in a shitty city. The only one of us 4 who can not manually work for 12 hours a day is me so they have to keep me until at least they learn how to grow harvest and can food.
Some plots will be organic but the producers of calories ( beans, peanuts, potatoes) will be mineral with mostly jacks 20 20 20 being the base.
We are plotting out now and going to run soil samples and start with pH movements for any crops that need it.
Ordering some agricultural watering items for the larger plots as rain can be a problem but luckily this property has several elevation changes that make drainage a breeze. I have a pond to draw from and it's not mine. My neighbor has a pond and he says it's the worst decision of his life and says I can drain it if I want. That's why I had the trees removed. They are in grassy areas with good drainage and in am pretty sure I am needing the area.
Advancing the feeding of the fish stocks in the pond with food and a double dose of minnows.
Working on insect feeding system I found online using a 12v motor , a led light and a string trimmer line. Placed over the water the insects are drawn to the light and dropped into the water for fish food.
Going to cap the sand well with a concrete cover pipe it to a hand crank pump. The well is not very good for much as it runs at the same hight as the pond and sometimes it's 4 feet deep and sometimes ( a handful in 34 years ) it is a dry hole.
Going to put a modest solar system of less that 10k watts and 20k storage for refrigeration and certain other things that will need power.
Power goes out I can pump water from 2 cisterns and sanitize. Can cook and have leach field. Sump pump is not needed unless you use the washer.
World is going to shit.
There is a book I read a while ago that started me on prepping.
It is called " The fourth turning" and it lays out in a very detailed way what is going on in the world. It is based on the theory that we as a group/society seem to play out the same script about every 80 years. It explains the different generational growths with each 20 year generation playing a part and setting up the next 4 generations.
Thinks of this. The dates of 1787, 1865, 1945 and now 2026. It even explains the Trump and how the grey champions of the past Washington, Lincoln, FDR and now Trump. The similarities in these folks are just amazing. Lincoln killed more Americans than any other president but did what was needed to save the union. Washington was pulled kicking and screaming into the government. All of them were large men who left a big footprint but universally were hated during the time they served. All had been shot at and one killed.
I hope this is just a waste of time but I do not think so.
Tribe up. Gather like minded people around you.
Peace.
Seems to give about the same results.
