Odds ‘n Sods:

Doug Casey on Getting Out of Dodge. This echoes what I wrote in my piece last week about “Taking The Gap.” (Thanks to John R. for the link.)

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Kevin S. suggested a thought-provoking piece at the My Adventures in Self Reliance blog for anyone that is planning to “double up” with another family (or multiple families) for mutual security in the event of a disaster: Using #OWS as a learning tool of what happens in a collapse. Time-proven military sanitation standards should be your baseline.

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Reader M.J. sent a link to a forum post: The Last Homestead in America is For Sale. (15 miles outside Alaska’s Denali National Park.) There might be a SurvivalBlog reader with the gumption to buy it.

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Kimberly mentioned an excellent blog about growing in a cold climate (Northern Idaho), called Subsistence Pattern. Kimberly summarizes: “They eat fresh veggies 365 days a year from their garden. There is lots of useful info in his blog’s sidebars. He is an inspiration to me.”

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SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large Michael Z. Williamson spotted this: Hong Kong culls thousands of chickens after bird flu discovered