Wendyj,

Welcome to the Forum. I believe the Canadian Preppers Network has been around in one form or another since 2011. I did not join until I stubbled across the site last Spring (2012).

This is a very good Forum, with many knowledgeable folks on just about any topic you can think of.

You many want to invest your time reading threads, but please stay an active poster. That helps you to more familiar with the Forum. If you use the Board Index or Portal, you will find this site has a LOT of information. EXplore.

Cheers,

Mountainman.

Welcome to Wendyj.

Another central Alberta member here. Glad to find another in the area.

Thank you for welcoming here! I am a reader, and have read so many post apocalypse fiction books. I know they are fictional, but fiction aside, the information is amazing in them. And even though at times the gist of the story can be overwhelming, it gives hope. Hope that not all people will react wrong in a bad situation. It's because of these books that I became to prepare. I can, I dry food, and I collect I formation and items on how to " live like gramma" did. But I am alone on doing this, my family members just say " oh mom" we are fine, we live in the safest place in the world." But I also follow the news, and science,and economics . The more I learn the more fragile I realize we are and how quick things can change. So I prepare the best I can. Since I love camping so much, I have an excuse to try new ideas, and food storing. For me the more information I get the better I can prepare. So I will be on here a lot.
Thanks again for allowing me to join.

Wendyj,

Glad to have you here. I look forward to you contributing to discussions around here.

As for your family members and their belief that we live in the savest place on the planet, that may be true - however, home fires still happen. Being prepared helps you get out with at least a bugout bag. Tornadoes still happen. Wild Fires - anyone remember Slave Lake, Alberta?? Floods??

We can all get a little complacent from time-to-time, but that does not mean we do not need to be prepared. Good on you for staying focused. They will thank you one day.

Camping. Best training for prepping. If you can live in a tent, with an ice chest and 2 burner stove, you can survive most things. Good luck with your training. 🙂

Cheers,

Mountainman.

Hi Wendy! I'm new here as well. Been mostly reading when I can so far. Very interesting site I must say.

Has anyone one on here tried to make pemmican? I have been searching the Internet for recipes as close to Native American as possible. Have tried several different versions, been experimenting with what ingredients I have and then vacuum packing it. Should last for years. From what I understand some pemmican has been dung up that was nearly one hundred years old and still useable. Taste on the other hand, still working on that lol

Hey Wendyj
Try using the search engine at the top corner for "pemmican" i got several hits in a few different threads but I can't promise any of them were actual recipes. You could 'bump' any of those topics though by asking one of those contributors for a recipe... we all love seeing our "View Your Posts" go red!

Also,
Be sure to check out the AB section as we have 2 different meetings coming up in the near future; one in Red Deer if we can find a venue and one in Calgary. Everyone's welcome.

Hello WendyJ and welcome to the forum. I make pemmican and have a couple of recipies. I have them in PDF format somewhere so I will look them up.

In the mean time here is a link to a good site with instructions on how to make it:
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/blog/how-to-make-pemmican.htm

The site has many useful tips on how to make all variety of prepper related things.

I am still not sure how to work this site, but I will learn. I am a firm believer I getting back to gramma of old and learning how things were done back then. I have baked and canned all of life because of a child that was allergic to preservatives. So that style of like is no different then before.. But now I seem to have an urgent need to learn more. Unfortunalty I do do not have the science side, even though I study everything, sometimes I feel over whelmed by what must be done. But which every we we turn we need a community to survive, whether its Yellowstone that blowes or economic collapse, what ever is out there. Come people it's not like any thing can go to waste, right?. Alone we die, together we survive simple as that

Thank you I will look it yup. I tried making it a couple years ago, but didn't really have a great dyer then. Now I do gonna get back into making it

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