I applaud your plan of action and dedication to healthy living. Wish you much success in your goals. There’s much to learn about growing food. We’ve shamefully been separated from that knowledge for several generations now. Get in to print everything you can on it. The internet just may not be here down the road. Sometimes I wish I had grown up Amish.
You too Fren, you too. Beyond printing out books on farming and homesteading, we need to focus on primitive techniques because without the grid, none of our modern tools will be of any use. And while the Amish definitely have the right idea, I would have been happy just to have paid more attention in scouts and woodshop and decided to join the FFA instead of choosing a path of technology. Had I known then what we know now... hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
Modern life has had a very successful way of drifting the unsuspecting away from the most basic and important knowledges needed for survival outside its trappings. As you say, hindsight and all that, I too wish I had taken some roads more than others. Lol, I started out life with intentions of living off the land, but it didn’t work out that way for one reason or another. Nonetheless I never lost my interest in the old way of doing things be it in wood or iron. It’s cool shit. If I may suggest one thing to you for your homestead to consider, it would be to procure a hit and miss engine. The more HP the better of course. Then go about building a belt drive line shaft to run machinery of all kinds. Getting harder to find the originals, but many modern machines/tools can easily converted to belt drive. Hit and miss engines can run off the shitiest of fuels including wood gas. You can run a generator or water pump with one as added bonus. Learn basic blacksmithing and acquire the basic tools for it as well. As important as books are, they are no good without the tooling required in many situations. Having the skills and equipment to build or make repairs in a no grid world makes you a very valuable person to trade and barter with. I’m root’n for you friend! Git’r did me lad!
Very cool. Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely be looking more into these engines, watched a couple of videos on them last night.
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