To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those –or excerpts thereof — in the Odds ‘n Sods Column or in the Snippets column. Let’s keep busy and be ready!
Jim Reports:
This week I spent a lot of time in the garden. I removed some old raised beds, and then spent several hours rototilling those areas. I also rototilled the spot for a new strawberry patch inside the fenceline of our orchard. With the help of our neighbor and his tractor, we spread rotted-down cow manure on all of those rototilled areas. I plan to re-til those areas, before the ground freezes.
I’ve been busy with both my consulting work, and with fulfilling Elk Creek Company orders.
I finally got the trenches backfilled for the water system extension down to the orchard. That felt good to see that job finished. Now instead of cobbling together 650 feet of seasonal garden hose, we have four new freeze-proof hydrants, and we will just have to run a couple of 100-foot hoses inside the orchard.
Now, on to Lily’s report…Continue reading“Editors’ Prepping Progress”