This was great Rob. I would like to add home remedies. I watched a woman named Barbara O'neill on youtube. She has a great episode titled "Home Remedies". You will learn a lot of useful information that our grandmothers and older generations knew. She covers all kinds of things that can be cured by using simple things like a potato, ginger, lemon, onion, garlic, castor oil, cayenne pepper and charcoal.
Hey Rob, very useful podcast -- thanks! I'm not that much of a podcast person, but enjoy informative ones. Thanks for some good ideas I hadn't thought of.
Oh, and about the birds and bugs ... the last decade or so, our area at least (southern MI), has lost a lot of pollinators.
Plus we keep getting massive numbers of one type of bug a year, kind of freaks me our because it reminds me a little of the plagues of Egypt.
Like one year we'll get vast number of stink bugs, then next year hoardes of those non-native things that look like lady bugs, then another type of beetle, a certain type of horsefly, etc.
As for the pollinators, we've got tons of hornets and wasps, but few honey-bees. Some butterflies, but we should have many more!
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As for being prepared, l am nearly obsessed with water and sanitation. Our water table's pretty high here, and we've got a deep well, and we've even got a smallish solar battery setup with portable folding panels, which is enough to keep us in running water when used sparingly for evrything else, but if that electric pump were to break ... no water. Think I'll ask my hubby to look into whether there's any sort of gadget we could get to convert easily to hand pumping (in case of pump failure).
Oh - handy reminder for folks working on stashing dry goods.... beware too much UV direct light on your stored goods, and too much heat.
This was great Rob. I would like to add home remedies. I watched a woman named Barbara O'neill on youtube. She has a great episode titled "Home Remedies". You will learn a lot of useful information that our grandmothers and older generations knew. She covers all kinds of things that can be cured by using simple things like a potato, ginger, lemon, onion, garlic, castor oil, cayenne pepper and charcoal.
Hey Rob, very useful podcast -- thanks! I'm not that much of a podcast person, but enjoy informative ones. Thanks for some good ideas I hadn't thought of.
Oh, and about the birds and bugs ... the last decade or so, our area at least (southern MI), has lost a lot of pollinators.
Plus we keep getting massive numbers of one type of bug a year, kind of freaks me our because it reminds me a little of the plagues of Egypt.
Like one year we'll get vast number of stink bugs, then next year hoardes of those non-native things that look like lady bugs, then another type of beetle, a certain type of horsefly, etc.
As for the pollinators, we've got tons of hornets and wasps, but few honey-bees. Some butterflies, but we should have many more!
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As for being prepared, l am nearly obsessed with water and sanitation. Our water table's pretty high here, and we've got a deep well, and we've even got a smallish solar battery setup with portable folding panels, which is enough to keep us in running water when used sparingly for evrything else, but if that electric pump were to break ... no water. Think I'll ask my hubby to look into whether there's any sort of gadget we could get to convert easily to hand pumping (in case of pump failure).
Oh - handy reminder for folks working on stashing dry goods.... beware too much UV direct light on your stored goods, and too much heat.
Degrades plastics and food stuffs alike.
Thanks again Rob, very helpful!