Blog Topic Index

Water filtering

  • A fast sand water filter

Storage notes

  • Belated update on the 8 year storage results
    Jun 22, 2014 3:53 PM
  • Results for 8 year storage of various items
    Jun 29, 2013 10:44 AM

Potatoes

  • Potato growing year-round
    Jul 26, 2018 12:26 PM
  • Potatopalooza
    Sep 19, 2016 12:16 PM
  • Potato late fall update
    Dec 1, 2015 10:56 AM

Sorghum

  • More sorghum, and corn
    Jul 26, 2018 11:46 AM

Wheat and grain crops

  • Wheat is on!
    May 10, 2015 11:47 AM
  • Threshing wheat on a small scale
    Aug 1, 2015 4:09 PM

Gardening

  • Spring update
    May 29, 2016 10:20 AM
  • Winter time harvest
    Jan 15, 2016 12:28 PM
  • Plans for next season and musings
    Dec 1, 2015 11:19 AM
    Progress on the sorghum, corn, and sunflower plot
    Jul 25, 2015 8:33 AM
  • The winter garden
    Dec 21, 2014 11:02 AM
  • Mini-garden pics
    Jun 22, 2014 3:18 PM
  • The mini-garden at 60 days
    Jun 13, 2014 8:05 AM
  • The spinach bolts..and the need to try things out
    May 27, 2014 8:54 PM
  • Small scale planting results
    May 12, 2014 1:22 PM
  • Broccolypse Now
    Jul 14, 2014 11:47 AM

Planning

  • Filling in the preparedness plan gaps
    Jul 26, 2018 12:50 PM
  • What amount of prepping is enough?
    May 29, 2016 10:56 AM
  • Cash in an emergency
    Feb 7, 2016 6:43 AM
  • Geiger counters and Black Swan events
    Dec 21, 2014 12:33 PM
  • Five food items we can’t live without (literally)
    Sep 8, 2014 5:25 PM
  • EMP, blackouts, and traffic jams
    • Aug 28, 2014 3:11 PM
  • Gardening and self-sufficiency in a crisis, looking back
    Aug 1, 2014 9:18 AM
  • Life on Day366
    Jan 25, 2014 5:34 PM
  • Midrange planning and supplies update
    Jan 25, 2014 4:25 PM
  • Mid-term emergency planning
    Oct 26, 2013 11:34 AM
  • Solar storms, the electric grid, and nuclear fuel storage
    Jul 19, 2013 4:39 PM
  • Realistic preparedness plans, some guidelines and specific information
    Jun 23, 2013 2:02 PM
  • Observations on Hurricane Sandy
    Jan 26, 2013 11:25 AM
  • Planning for the long term
    Sep 24, 2012 3:18 PM
  • Response at the local and individual level
    Sep 20, 2012 4:20 PM
  • Public and government responses to a real emergency, past and future
    Sep 20, 2012 3:05 PM
  • Golden Hordes, and bugging out
    Sep 16, 2012 11:59 AM
  • Guns ‘N Ammo
    Sep 16, 2012 11:32 AM
  • The Big One…aka SHTF, Zombie Apocalypse, epidemic, EMP, etc.
    Sep 16, 2012 10:06 AM
     
  • Why Day366?
    Sep 15, 2012 1:08 PM

Wheat and sorghum bread

  • 100% Wheat and Rye Bread, another success!
    Jan 18, 2018 9:03 AM
  • Cooking with 100% Sorghum flour
    Jan 1, 2018 11:16 AM
  • Wheat Bread Victory
    Oct 1, 2016 1:59 PM

Sorghum syrup

  • Sorghum syrup making on a small scale
    Nov 19, 2017 4:51 PM
  • Sorghum Syrup Making (small scale)
    Dec 1, 2015 12:05 PM

Nut, seed, and berry crops

  • Harvesting hickory nuts, and pie
    Nov 19, 2017 5:26 PM
  • Impeller pressed sunflower oil, DIY
    Jan 22, 2016 12:47 PM

Freeze dried food

  • Breakfast in America (freeze dried)
    Oct 1, 2016 1:35 PM

Fuel and cooking

  • Converting the Jetboil to propane cylinders
    Oct 16, 2016 7:26 PM
  • The Big Gas Crisis of ’16
    Sep 19, 2016 11:26 AM
  • Cookin’ with gas….
    Nov 9, 2013 12:59 PM

Existential nonsense and editorials

  • Media bias against emergency preparedness
    Dec 21, 2014 2:09 PM
  • Deflating the Rational Man theory; how likely are man-made crises?
    Sep 8, 2014 2:36 PM
  • The irony of Newtown
    Jan 26, 2013 2:28 PM
  • “The Book of Eli” movie review as related to disaster prep
    Jan 26, 2013 11:07 AM