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Post by missouriboy on Jun 8, 2017 22:36:07 GMT
I live in a small university town (approx. 100K). Lots of students (snowflakes) that don't know much about guns and would probably head home. In a real pinch, the family farm is 18 miles up the road in the heart of the old Blackfoot country (partisan rangers territory - still wave the old flags in places). We're heavily interbred up there ... more close and distant cousins than you can throw a stick at. Ten miles further and you're into heavy corn and soybean country with some small cattle operations. This area could feed Columbia if they organized. Any raiding parties would find themselves looking like Johnston's dead Yankees at Centralia if they weren't REAL careful. And of course the Amish (sizeable settlement) are just up the road a piece. Good people. We trade with them a lot. They wouldn't even notice that the lights had gone out.  I can see them offering a lot of survival classes.  Good capitalists, farmers, blacksmiths, tanners, you name it. Just nothing modern. 100K is small!? and you mentioned inbreeds? Any idea how many of those are closely related? 100K is mostly the city of Columbia ... built-up area probably 90K. There are maybe 2-3000 in North Boone County, my area. There are many descendants of the early settlers that still own property. I do not have a count of all our relationships. The families that were here from 1830 to 1930 married back and forth a lot ... family to family. There are many cousins. Perhaps POTUS could give me a grant to put it all in order. I regularly find new ones. Perhaps we could find effects of inter-family genetic mutations that might affect voting patterns ... or something.  Undifferentiated by closeness, there are easily I think 400-500 people, not all residing directly in the county. Most of them of course would not know me from Adam. |
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Post by glennkoks on Jun 9, 2017 3:09:24 GMT
Another prepper tip of of the day. If you live in an urban area have an exit plan. You want to get away from as many other "hungry" people as possible. Katrina taught us how fast our societal norms break down in the absence of police. So look for a rural location in a geographically isolated place. In my case I have a small fishing camp on the coast in a tiny community population about 28. Water wells are abundant, large propane tanks for heating cooking and septic. Lots of fish, waterfowl and game. Where did you say you lived again? I live near Houston, TX. Fishing camp is down the coast 65 miles or so. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 17, 2017 2:23:33 GMT
Mycorrhizal Networks in Plant Community Resilience  Living fungal networks in the soil. This guy is a small Yankee apple grower. I read his book 'The Apple Grower' several years back and was impressed. Now he's published a new book. No academic research affiliation that I know of ... but a true example of citizen science in action. A good practical ecologist. commonsensehome.com/mycorrhizal-planet/ |
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 7, 2017 0:23:03 GMT
Sunflowers and Day Lilies are Edible and TastyThese two plants are apparently edible from the leaves to the roots (all parts). The old-fashioned orange day lilies are supposedly very tasty. One left over treasure on our family farm are huge mats of daylilies so thick and continuous that nothing grows throw them ... the hardiest of the hardy. Considered delicacies in some places. So ... if I'm going to freeze to death, I'm going out in style. Just need a sauce. Any NOLA recommendations? I have plenty of wood and dutch ovens. honest-food.net/dining-on-daylilies/tacticalintelligence.net/blog/wild-edibles-the-daylily.htm
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 7, 2017 0:32:22 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 27, 2020 0:20:21 GMT
A New Set of Sources on Edible Plants/Weeds www.nwcbooks.com/download/the-complete-guide-to-edible-wild-plants/Free download THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS Author : Department of the Army ISBN : 9781626369825 Genre : Nature File Size : 75. 38 MB Format : PDF, ePub, Docs Download : 893 Read : 315 THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS MUSHROOMS FRUITS AND NUTS Author : Katie Letcher Lyle ISBN : CORNELL:31924094709270 Genre : Nature File Size : 51. 86 MB Format : PDF, Docs Download : 262 Read : 982 and many others ... |
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 28, 2020 1:58:06 GMT
Funny thing this year at Christmas. Everyone gave away something homemade this year. Lots of jams, jellies, cookies, bread, cakes, toys, spices, and food. I scored a double knit afgan from my wife!!! |
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Post by nonentropic on Dec 28, 2020 4:00:37 GMT
Is that food Sig?
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 28, 2020 4:30:47 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 28, 2020 13:16:42 GMT
It is a survival good. Double knit, wool. |
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Post by walnut on Dec 28, 2020 17:11:22 GMT
I'm seeing rural land in Oklahoma going up, I can't find any rocky timberland that is far enough off the grid to be below $3000 an acre. Most is higher than that. When did this happen?
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 28, 2020 17:33:02 GMT
I'm seeing rural land in Oklahoma going up, I can't find any rocky timberland that is far enough off the grid to be below $3000 an acre. Most is higher than that. When did this happen? Around here, it has been the norm for some time. The really expensive preferred direction of expansion has been south through the wooded hills dropping down to the Missouri River, Northward to the praires has been more price retarded. But prices 10 to 20 miles north of town float at about $5000 per acre in larger chunks. One lady paid $7000 an acre for a 10-acre slab down the road from us a few years back. She had to sell at quite a bit less. Middle Earthers believe that those old, gone-to-pot 40-acre tracts (literally in some cases) that raised large families in the 1880s-1950s have become gold mines. Where are those $3000 per acre deals? Eastern OK? Could be a screaming deal.  Or not.  |
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Post by walnut on Dec 28, 2020 17:47:33 GMT
I'm seeing rural land in Oklahoma going up, I can't find any rocky timberland that is far enough off the grid to be below $3000 an acre. Most is higher than that. When did this happen? Around here, it has been the norm for some time. The really expensive preferred direction of expansion has been south through the wooded hills dropping down to the Missouri River, Northward to the praires has been more price retarded. But prices 10 to 20 miles north of town float at about $5000 per acre in larger chunks. One lady paid $7000 an acre for a 10-acre slab down the road from us a few years back. She had to sell at quite a bit less. Middle Earthers believe that those old, gone-to-pot 40-acre tracts (literally in some cases) that raised large families in the 1880s-1950s have become gold mines. Where are those $3000 per acre deals? Eastern OK? Could be a screaming deal. Or not. Honestly, there aren't even any of those. And if it's anywhere near a lake, forget it. I think that the old adage "Well they aren't making any more of it" is FINALLY kicking in. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 28, 2020 19:48:43 GMT
Around here, it has been the norm for some time. The really expensive preferred direction of expansion has been south through the wooded hills dropping down to the Missouri River, Northward to the praires has been more price retarded. But prices 10 to 20 miles north of town float at about $5000 per acre in larger chunks. One lady paid $7000 an acre for a 10-acre slab down the road from us a few years back. She had to sell at quite a bit less. Middle Earthers believe that those old, gone-to-pot 40-acre tracts (literally in some cases) that raised large families in the 1880s-1950s have become gold mines. Where are those $3000 per acre deals? Eastern OK? Could be a screaming deal. Or not. Honestly, there aren't even any of those. And if it's anywhere near a lake, forget it. I think that the old adage "Well they aren't making any more of it" is FINALLY kicking in. Our 64 acres of pasture and old growth hardwood (long past prime timber) overlooking the canyon of the Silver Fork will likely be a boon for the heirs who have never turned a spade of dirt. The white oaks and shagbark hickories that I cannot come close to wraping my arms around were likely standing long before the first white man settled these parts ... saved by my grandfather and GGF who refused to sell them to the wave of whiskey-barrel makers that swarmed the lands about the turn of the century. Have watched the buried seedstock of native grasses expand back up the slope over these last ten years ... unprovoked and unattended except for annual mowings and occasional burnings. Unplowed for nigh on 60 years now. The 1880s railroad cut and embankments, abandoned unfinished and dammed up as ponds now have accumulations of organic matter thick enough to mine for organic farming if one had the energy of a 30-year old. Water levels maintained by groundwater at the base of the slope and populated by armies of the smallest, loudest frogs on the planet. The fleshy pond "scum" forms a carpet of habitat that others might describe as "yuk" ... but the frogs call it home, together with the occasional flight of waterfowl that drop in for dinner. Too small to attract the mass flights. I wonder how some transplanted geese or swans would fare. |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 28, 2020 19:59:44 GMT
Around here, it has been the norm for some time. The really expensive preferred direction of expansion has been south through the wooded hills dropping down to the Missouri River, Northward to the praires has been more price retarded. But prices 10 to 20 miles north of town float at about $5000 per acre in larger chunks. One lady paid $7000 an acre for a 10-acre slab down the road from us a few years back. She had to sell at quite a bit less. Middle Earthers believe that those old, gone-to-pot 40-acre tracts (literally in some cases) that raised large families in the 1880s-1950s have become gold mines. Where are those $3000 per acre deals? Eastern OK? Could be a screaming deal. Or not. Honestly, there aren't even any of those. And if it's anywhere near a lake, forget it. I think that the old adage "Well they aren't making any more of it" is FINALLY kicking in. How about NW and west-central Arkansas ... along the slopes and valleys of the Boston Mountains? |
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I can see them offering a lot of survival classes. 
Good capitalists, farmers, blacksmiths, tanners, you name it. Just nothing modern.
Undifferentiated by closeness, there are easily I think 400-500 people, not all residing directly in the county. Most of them of course would not know me from Adam.
Or not. 