Hiya, I have just joined today. Am happy to see another Albertan here. I am in Calgary and we have a decent size of food storage. Still looking forward to expand.

Glad to see another Albertan! I thought I might be the only one. LOl!! We are in the Hat so not too far from you.

Another hullo from Alberta, 🙂 Calgary. Under 40 inches of concrete and lookin good :0) Bugged out every summer to keep in shape and use my skill sets. Camp is ready to go and close to the mountains, fresh water. Life time prepper via military upbringing and first nations indoctrination from across the land and many different tribal groups. Boy scouts, cubs, Air cadets, logger, miner, oil field, construction back ground, prospecting and just doing it Injun style too. An old timer with a vast amount of experience surviving :0) Have a great piece of bush in New Brunswick too in a highly savvy community of fellow preppers and bush whackers. :0) Nice to see the shift of awareness growing in our land. 🙂 I have room for company of heroes that I'd like to fill with able bodies and solid friends. Not over load the place just create a family of stalwarts to pull together.
No definite plan but see the need to gather some good people around and take a load off me too..gettin old now. 🙂 Got my prepps and tools etc. Peace out. 🙂

Hey you all from our sister province, Alberta. Nice to see you come on board. I am from Port Dover, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Erie, app. 60 klm. from Hamilton via Hwy # 6 south. Nother 60 klm north will put you in Toronto. Just new to this & very busy, so dont get to read or wright very much,,,,just learn what I can & wonder if this is all for real....I know all signs point to this as being a very serious situation but I think that I , myself, am still in denial like most of the people I know...tryin to get some solar & wind power stuff goin...gettin older & don't think that I'm into diggin up roots to go "campin"...lol...that means I I will make my stand "here" & most likely die here, too.....have vertualy no "protection" to speak of ceptin my own witts...trippin into Hamilton, soon, to visit the army surplus stores....pickup what I can afford & think can help...a avid hunter of yesterday but sold all [10] of my long guns,,never expected any thing like this to come up...guess that I will be throwing sticks & stones like I see on TV. Our "leader?" harper has sold the farm to O BOMB A & told them that they are welcome to cross our border, with good intentions of course, to help our government if we get rebellious in any way or object to orders we don't approve of!!! I don't think that it will take those americans that long to be up here in a flash & what are we to do???? run & hide [where?] Seeing what they do to their own people, leads me to think that "we are nothin special" & they will walk right in & take over every thing they want...not much different from the way "they" do with any thing else!!! But!!!! we can count on our army to save us....lol...lol...God help us, there... got to go...things to do...eh??? latter happy fathers day to all, jzpazinthru.

hello ..my name is Evan. i live 15 min ][east of Red Deer . i own a 156 acre hobby farm..and like you.. i see the "writng on the wall"..the warning signs.. and im livin as frugal as i can..we burn wood for heat..pallets actually..for free..have lots of stuff for power outages etc..i even put in a fairly big box garden..i would enjoy visiting with any of you that love the subject of prepping and things like that..id love to hear all about what you've done to prepare..hope to hear from you ..

It would be great to have some prepper contacts in the area!

Welcome everyone to the forum. Take your time and have a look around. Post as often as you wish. Lets all learn from each other and grow this site into something great!

Hey everyone.
I am new here. I live out west of Edmonton.
I have the FEMA plans for the wood-gasifier and the ones from Mother Earth News, but I haven't built it yet. Always mean to but life tends to get in the way of living. I was wondering if anyone nearby has any experience with them.
Otherwise, hello everybody.

We are an existing homestead, multi-generational from 1887 to present time. We are the only producer as far as I know in the world of Wild Black Currant. We have modified several vehicles to operate on propane, some of them are four times more economical operating on propane than on gasoline. We heat 2,800 square ft home in the winter for approximately 100$ a month on coal. The workshop which has a 2,000 square ft heated working area is heated as well on coal again approximately 100$ a month. We are on a stand of old growth timber on the original homestead with the only logging done the dead and dying have been removed. At the present time we are looking to bring like minded people together even perhaps hosting seminars on weekends to bring like minded people together. Keep in mind we are not looking for financial contributions or for any one to incur costs for these get-togethers. If you are interested please feel free to contact us or check out our website.
email address: pj@wildhorseranch.ca
website address: www.wildhorseranch.ca
We are also on the intentional communities directory: www.ic.org

Hey all!
Glad to see there are more than a few of us in good ol' Alberta!
I am a avid outdoorsman with a solid mindset on being prepared for what life may dish out down the road.
I am working on building up a better storage of food ( but who isn't, can never have too much ) and I will be developing my backyard into a......suburban homestead, if you will. Hoping to have 5 large vegetable beds,1 berry bed, rain water collection and a few meat rabbits. I am also looking into the possibility of setting up a solar power system.

Questions: -does anyone run a diesel alternative in their vehicles?
-any tips for solar "on the cheap"?
-best fruits and vegetables suited for Alberta?

Just thought I would throw it out there.
Hope we will all be able to exchange thoughts and plans with each other.
Cheers.

Questions: -does anyone run a diesel alternative in their vehicles?
-any tips for solar "on the cheap"?
-best fruits and vegetables suited for Alberta?
As for solar on the cheap, if you are looking for a professional plug and play system, the best place I found in Canada is a guy out of Reddeer: Sunfind. Best prices and good advice.
if you area thinking on the cheaper a friend did his cabin with some of the Canadian tire panels hooked up to a bunch of regular car batteries. Then he had an inverter for a car to convert to AC. There was no charge regulator though so it could potentially wreck the batteries. I want to try it on my next little cabin.

Although I do think that the cheapo charge controllers are better than the riskthe of toasting the batteries. Forgot to add that part.

Hi, this is my first time on this forum. I'm from Edmonton but got a place west of the city. I've been prepping for a few years and have a bit of an idea what I'm doing and how to do it but I'm always looking for new ideas and tips. I'm even willing to come up with a few myself. My background is - retired military, former highway patrol officer, taught self-defence for a few years (both in and out of the military) and taught wilderness survival in the military. Currently I'm employed as a close protection specialist and I help out with trail riding in the summer (horses not bikes).
I'm looking forward to sharing with all of you.

Solar on the cheap. Whichever city you're in or near, did you notice that the road crews now use a lot of solar powered street signs. Well, those signs aren't owned by the city. They're leased. I haven't done this yet (procrastinating) but stop and look on the sign for the name and contact number of the company that owns the signs. As part of the regular maintenance of the signs, the solar panels are occassionaly swapped out, often long before their due date. You can try contacting the company and inquire about purchasing the used panels. I have heard that often you can get them for pennies on the dollar.

Also, one of the things I've noticed that no one has mentioned is methane. If you live on or near a livestock farm (cattle, pigs, chickens, etc.) a methane generator is simple to build. With a small compressor you can fill a tank to use for cooking or emergency heating or pretty much anything you would use propane for. The byproduct can be used as an organic fertilizer.