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I built a 6' hydroponic tower over the weekend and am excited to grow my own food. All set up to raise a few chickens soon too!

It's not much, but I'm having fun and trying new things. How about you?

I built a 6' hydroponic tower over the weekend and am excited to grow my own food. All set up to raise a few chickens soon too! It's not much, but I'm having fun and trying new things. How about you?

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Paying attention to DIY . Today I learned that I can put a candle into crisco and have at least 36 days (in 8 hr increments) of candle light. (melt it and put it into firesafe jars, then put your candle in ) https://www.theorganicprepper.com/how-to-make-a-crisco-candle-safely).

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Pal, if your life gets to the stage where you have to make a candle last 36 days by putting it in Crisco, you might as well kill yourself.

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No. I'm in CA where they shut off power for fire season.

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Have at least 1 months worth of emergency food, large jug of water storage, weapons, ammo, plan on getting more emergency food.

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I could see having 3-4 month emergency food on hand. If we've learned anything from the fuaxvid crisis it's that you're on your own in an emergency and that our govt is absolutely useless when it comes to providing for the common good. Too busy providing for their own good. That said, any more than 3 months would be considered apocalyptic in nature and how far ahead can you actually be prepared for? My wife and I decided a while back that we don't want to survive a nuclear blast/attack. What's to look forward to after that. All the crap of the last few months has made me wonder if we could have any type of civil war without at least limited nuclear involvement. The left are some crazy fucks, how far are they willing to go to hang onto power?

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Absolutely, the government has shown how useless, feeble, and weak it is. Ideally I want 1 years worth of emergency food but I'm doing it bit by bit. Civil War 2 is coming and I want to make sure my food and water stuffs are up to par. That might take time.....I have enough to last me a decent amount of time but of course I want to extend it due to the shit going on. I use to question preppers.....I don't anymore!

ps. The jews will hold onto power as long as they can until they find out that the host population is racially aware and nationalistic. Where in which the cowardly jews will hightail it out of there like they have always done.....

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Radio. I’ve got one in each of my cars, have my license and practice all the time. I can step out into my yard, setup my rig and communicate around the world with or without grid power. It’s fun. Ham radio.

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Radio is my biggest blind spot. I need to get some books.

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http://www.arrl.org/shop/Operating-Manual/

It’s a lot of fun. Lookup W4EEY on YouTube. I watched his videos and knocked all three tests out of the park in one sitting. They are your classic geeky radio guys, but I learned so much from them.

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Thank you for suggesting this. I was doing it the dry way, studying alone. Much more entertaining to have a teacher!

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Communication (radio) has been nowhere in my wheelhouse, but I've been curious about. I will check these guys out!

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What does a rig like you're describing cost? Ballpark it, I'm sure there are a lot of variables.

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It depends, a little vhf/uhf radio can run about $150 for a quality radio. Cheap Chinese knock offs are $30 but not reliable not stable not worth betting your life on. A good 100 watt HF radio is up towards the $600 range. Not including the accessories, good quality coax, a power supply, a nice microphone, speaker, a decent antenna, etc. for vhf/uhf Dr. Ed Fong sells a great little do it yourself antenna. I have one on my roof and it’s been great.

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6 chickens

Bake our own bread

Make our own pasta

Started homeschooling

Learned to cut hair

Tripled garden size

Storing tons of food

Dehydrating food

Tried getting license to carry

Consequences for state shutdowns still not felt. Things coming.

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I just cut 10 huge trees in the forest in my backyard. Im going to turn most of it into firewood over the next few months. Clear the rest and raise some pigs and goats in the space.

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I have my own house and land, no mortgage, no debts, very low expenses and a steady income that greatly exceeds my expenditures. I can buy pretty much what I want, but I don't want anything. Objects have almost no value to me. I couldn't care less about clothes, jewelry, cars, boats, summer homes, RVs, swimming pools, travel. None of that means anything to me. I think, I dream, I create. I don't know how much more independent I could be than that.

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I'd like to see that hydroponic tower, or if there is a video or site you recommend.

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Me too.

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I dont know how to upload pics and videos here, or I would. This is super close: https://youtu.be/FTc6Sv2Gi3o (sorry for jewtube link)

Most supplies can be found @ home depot. Make sure to get the square vinyl fence post, I tried and failed to attach the cup holders to a round pvc pipe lol There are probably also ways to build this with metal or maybe even concrete or clay (to get away from plastic), but this will have to do for now. If I make improvements I will update

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I did this last year and really loved the outcome. You might enjoy it as well since you like the idea of your tower.

https://youtu.be/gJBE9ZKa77w

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I bought a grain mill to grind my own fresh wheat. It arrived a couple days ago and just got the wheat. I'll be playing with that soon.

Began making my own yogurt for the kids. It's better tasting, better for you, and I know what's in it, also no plastic chemicals leaching into their food. I think as long as I keep it fed every week it will stay alive.

Going to be making my own sausages soon, learning to use the meat grinder. Isn't it odd that this isn't a common thing to do?

Setting up chicken tractors to segregate chickens by species instead of free range bangs, in order to sell breeds to those who want specific kinds. Also started quail, they're about three to four weeks old. Will begin a breeding program with them and start stocking the freezer and selling. I'm hoping with these specific things I'll make contact with other people who will have trade items instead of using cash. I need to pick out five to ten goats and sell them. Feed stores have been short on feed for a month now. It's going to be hard to let go of them. They're pets as much as milk providers.

Planning the garden, will be first year here so nothing established yet. Put in three apples, two pears,a fig, a pomegranate, and another I can't recall last fall. Expanded the current two blue berry bush section to four. It has been really bad weather so not a lot done for the garden beyond plans on paper and seed accumulation. We just got rabbits so now I have goat, chicken, turkey, quail, and rabbit poop for the garden. Have a rack with five tiers and shop lights to do seed starters in about two weeks.

I wish to make a smoke house that does both hot and cold smoking. I would also like to source salt locally if shtf. I need to get a hand pump and the well working. I was so excited this place had a well until I called to get it working and they said several thousand. Need to set up the rain barrels too. So much to do.

Definitely look into the quail for food. Chickens take forever to reach maturity, eat a lot more per pound of feed/yield of meat, stink more, require more space, and take longer to butcher. I like them, but I think if I had started quail first I would have only gotten them as pets who happen to give larger eggs.

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I would recommend a freeze dryer machine. You can get to work on storing years worth of meat and food.

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Been working out and stopped drinking. It's not really self reliance, more like self discipline

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