Survival Sunday is a personal note and a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared. This curated collection of information is only available to email and Patreon subscribers.
Have a great week
ahead!
Daisy
A PERSONAL NOTE
Every year, I wonder...is this it? Is this our last modern-world holiday season? The last one with the internet? The last one where we have freedom? The last one in which we can afford to buy gifts? The last one where we can turn on our heat at the turn of a dial or the tap of a digital keyboard?
It's an important exercise, by my way of thinking. Not because I'm doomy, but because it helps me to remember that no matter what we've lost, we still have much for which to be thankful.
We have some new post-apocalyptic fiction this year - a short story by 1stMarineJarHead. He did a really awesome job, and you can read it here. Tomorrow, I'll continue the tradition of posting the Christmas story I wrote years ago.
It's funny how traditions start, isn't it? The movie you always watch. The meal you always prepare. The stories you always read. Sometimes, they get passed down from our parents, and sometimes, we start our own to meet the needs and desires of our loved ones. But traditions are important, whatever they may be. They connect us with our past and comfort us. They make our children feel safe and loved. And they help the grown-ups feel secure, too.
This year, no matter how your situation may have changed due to events in the world, I hope that your traditions bring you
joy, peace, and comfort.
We're facing threats to our food supply from many different angles: supply chain breakdowns, drought, food facilities being ravaged by fires, skyrocketing inflation, and outright shortages. No longer can we live in the comfort of unthreatened abundance. We're learning exactly how delicate the system really is.
Prepping and putting back supplies is incredibly important but what we're seeing now goes beyond that. You have to be able to produce and acquire more food. You have to be able to put back your harvests to eat during the winter. You have to be able to prepare items that once were as convenient as popping open a can or little plastic container.
You need a paperback copy of How to Feed Your Family No Matter What, our Organic Prepper anthology with ALL of our content about food. You'll get more than 500 pages of content that are all about food when you can't just go to the store and buy whatever you want.
