Check out the book "Country Living Encyclopedia" by Carla Emery, your local library might have a copy. It doesn't go into great details but will give you enough information to get the job done. The book covers gardening, animal husbandry and a large variety of homesteading topics that isn't common knowledge anymore.

Check out the book "Country Living Encyclopedia" by Carla Emery, your local library might have a copy. It doesn't go into great details but will give you enough information to get the job done. The book covers gardening, animal husbandry and a large variety of homesteading topics that isn't common knowledge anymore.

I actually have The Country Living Encyclopedia and several more books along the same line. My thought in this thread is to remind others to think along those lines. I realize that some are concerned with preparing for disaster but how many think of what happens if it's on a scale of years or decades. I'm curious about what thought people are giving, not just to get through TEOTWAWKI, but to prosper afterwards. What skills are they developing to barter with or what things are they learning to make for future trade. For example, toilet paper is a finite resource, it'll be in big demand a couple of years into the aftermath. Who knows how to make a tradable substitute.
What thought have people given to helping their communtiy thrive as opposed to ekeing out a living. A skilled accountant or a retail clerk won't be in high demand so when their stockpiles are running low, what will they have to offer to trade? There is more than preparing for it, there is preparing for after it.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Anyone.

check out the poor mans james bond i think vol.4 recipeas for home made gunpowder . i would think could be a good bartering item.

check out the poor mans james bond i think vol.4 recipeas for home made gunpowder . i would think could be a good bartering item.

Got that one too. Also have the Weaponeer.

never herd of the weaponeer . but i think im gonna look for it. books like thease are good . knoledge is good . the way things are headin i think any edge a person has might be the diference between making it and not making it . and how long till those books are banned. you herd anything about the strange noises there hearing all over the world . it made ctv news last week.

Most of the forums on this site deal with how to prepare for a SHTF scenario. I think it's pretty obvious that those of us who prepare and who get through it aren't going to just sit around in our own little isolated communities and vegetate. Eventually, we'll have to get in contact with others. For the most part we know that the economy will probably start up again based on a barter system. What will you have to barter.
Chances are, after TEOTWAWKI, the big distilleries will be shut down. There will still be a use for alcohol (antiseptics, grease cleaning, fuel and of course drinking). Those of us who know how to build and use a still will have something to barter. Eventually, commercial soap will all be used up. Who knows how to make their own soap, which will be good for trading. Those who can tan hides and make leather products will have something to offer. Weavers and ropemakers will do okay. People with blacksmithing or carpentry skills have something to trade. Anyone with medical skills will be in high demand.
We shouldn't just prepare for the meltdown, we need to think about life in the years afterward.

Any ideas?

Pretty sure it says international peppers network, not prepare for a SHTF scenario. T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I. (The End Of The World As We Know It) pronounced toat-wa-key is an acronym first coined by Mike Medintz. don't know who this guy is, but what ever there thoughts are as far as what will happen to Earth man kind or any outer space items coming this way, he or any one has no clue, its all our best guess. That said i would like to see all you have mention, skills needed to be implement now in this society. Do we need to have some global catastrophe to get us moving to a more sustainable world right now.

I'll use Argentina and Cuba as examples of the kind of economic collapse that we're almost sure to face to some degree. Life is harder for everyone, crime is certainly higher and more violent but for the most part there's still an organized society. Government is still intact, police are still there, banks expect loans to be paid, taxes are still a fact of life.
A complete collapse is not impossible and you shouldn't discount it entirely but as I'm fond of saying .. it's not that likely.

Being in Canada we would be much better off than Cuba in food and oil security.

My sweetie and I have been researching stills......and gasifiers - look on youtube, there is lots of info there. My Jim is a taxidermist and a heck of a hunter. We both can butcher an animal and cure a hide.
Great idea - learn a trade that will be in demand after TEOTWAWKI, and make sure you have the things you need DO the trade.

Hi Beth:
I agree, it is the International Preppers Network. Many of us do prep for local disasters of many natures, but many of us also prep for what we
believe is an eventual and inevitable economic/social/political collapse. It would be nice if people in general did choose to live a more sustainable
lifestyle. Unfortunately, in our modern, materialistic, western society, that's just not a big priority. For example, the youngest daughter of one of
one of my cousins won't even look at a pair of jeans in the store if they have a price tag less than $200.00. A lot of people would get nauseous at
thought of having to kill, pluck and prepare a chicken for the pot. When he was younger, my son once expressed disgust at the thought of doing a
Physical labour job (until I pointed out that everything he had was due to my physical labour job). I know your last question in your post was
retorical but, yes it probably will require a disaster of global and extended proportions before people in general will show a real interest in a more
sustainable lifestyle and real life skills.

By the way, my son has since changed his attitude about labour and is working on developing new skills (and becoming a prepper to boot).

Did you know that during WWII, 80% of all vehicals in Sweden were fueled by a wood gasifier, and 40% of the same in the rest of europe.
A Step by step FREE PDF on how to build your own gasifier by FEMA? 😮 ... I have looked it over, and it contains most of the plans for building a gasifier, even a problem solving page. Here is the link, be warned it is a 90 page PDF.
http://www.woodgasifiers.com/docs/fema_wood_gas_generator.pdf
Damd, need to get my welding skills up to par. Hi ho, hi ho, its off to the scrap yard I go. 😉 I wonder if there is a possible business in this 😉

Ok, that's a very cool article/resource ...
It made me go 'hmmm' that they released a document to the public so that farmers could still run their tractors if there was an 'oil emergency'. I was trying to recall if anything was going on in 1989 or not to prompt this?

A possible business?
It's funny but every kid I grew up with knew how to weld, lay bricks, cut trees and all that kind of stuff.
The guy living next door was going to call a tree guy to trim a branch 6ft off the ground. I told him to just take his saw and cut it off. He does not even OWN a saw.

So many people today don't know how to do anything for themselves there's probably a business in everything you can think of.