Day: October 27, 2025

Preparedness Notes for Monday — October 27, 2025

On October 27, 1553, Condemned as a heretic, Spanish-born physician and Christian church reformer Michael Servetus was burned at the stake, just outside Geneva. — October 27, 1702: British troops plundered St Augustine, Florida. — October 27th 1858: The birthday of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. He died January 6, 1919. — Some great news! There are new owners of the famed Harvest Guard company — makers of reusable canning lids. The company is now owned by the same folks who own and operate USA Berkey Filters.  They are generously providing a new prize that was just added to the First …


Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 8, by The Chemical Engineer

(Continued from Part 7. This concludes the article.) 4 – How Much Food Can We Afford To Share With Others? Now, let’s consider the controversial topic of sharing our limited food resources with a neighborhood group. Think of this option like investing money in start-up companies, high risk for the chance at high rewards but in this case the money is our food and the companies are people that need some of our food to have the strength to work on survival projects with us. I will do my best to outline facts and calculations that will help us to …


Recipe of the Week:

The following two-day recipe for Barley and Pork Hocks is from SurvivalBlog reader Richard T. Equipment: A small cast iron pot, a soup pot, and a rectangular glass cake pan (or a similar pan). Ingredients Two fresh pork hocks ½ cup of  barley grain ½ cup of white vinegar Cayenne or hot pepper flakes (to taste) Pepper (to taste) Salt (to taste) Directions Day one: Simmer a couple of fresh pork hocks in ½” of water in a lidded cast iron pot for half a day until the meat can be separated from the bones. Refrigerate overnight. (The extracted bones …


SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week 

Today’s graphic:  USDA Plant Hardiness Growing Zone Chart. (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University (OSU) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The thumbnail below is click-expandable.       — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.