Odds ‘n Sods:

As a follow-up to previous mentions in SurvivalBlog, Nanci M. suggested this article: Finding Dolly Freed.

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Reader Trent H. spotted this interesting article: An Amish Entrepreneur’s Old-Fashioned Approach; Without electricity, a car, or a cell phone, Amos Miller turned his dad’s Pennsylvania farm into a $1.8 million national food retailer. Oh, and speaking of locally-grown foods, Jason W. sent us the link to Well Fed Neighbor.

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Yishai flagged this: IDF to blanket Israel with gas masks. Yishai’s comments: “To show the chemical threat is real, and to point out to your readers that retail gas masks may be scarce in the near future, Israel will be making and distributing gas masks to every citizen over the next three years. An Israeli blogger pointed out that the distribution should take less than three years, and he’s right about the distribution, but there is almost eight million Israeli citizens (Jewish and Arab), so the production of the kits will be the bottleneck.”