Hi All

I am going to start a group of posts about Legacy Prepping. Hope you enjoy and it helps.

What do I consider legacy prepping? Prepping with the idea that you will leave something behind, train your children and prep not just for the short term or medium but for generations to come.

I started to think this way when our first child was born, I thought about my grandparents and how I had inherited many ideas and ways of doing things from them. They both were Partisans in the second world war in Yugoslavia. They taught me many things before they died, and alot about prepping I had never realized till recently. So when I started to have children, well you can see how the equation is made. Grandparents knowledge + Current Knowledge + Children x Children’s children = Legacy Prepping or as I like to call it LPrep.

So lets look at some aspects of LPrep. Many people think about the next few years. How will I get by while society falls apart and reforms, or some disaster happens and settles. This is a great way to start, now you have to add to your equation how do we survive as many things as possible while keeping the family going. It could be a great flood, society falls apart, or even society starts to take over and grows too big.

Start planning for 20 years from now, 40 years , 100 years. What can you do that will continue to thrive and grow? Here are some of my examples (we can talk more about them below and future posts):

- Books (discussed in this post)
- Seeds
- How to hunt
- What can you eat
- Survival Strategy and tactics
- Weapons
- Medicine
- Skills
- Plan B and C

These are just some of the ideas you need to re-evaluate. Lets start with Books. What books do you need and how to keep them from falling apart 200 years from now?

Start by keeping them away from sunlight, Keep them dry, don’t try to store them in a cramped space, books need some room too. Stack heavy to light if you need to. Don’t bend the corners and don’t pull them by the binding. Leather bound last longer than hard cover. I also like to keep my books or print outs in large ziplock bags from time to time if I feel there is a danger of them getting wet. As a backup I have a geo cache of important books that are air tight and stored underground. Furthermore all my books are on pdf format on an older iphone that I have spare parts for …like battery, solar charger and screen.

Here is a list of some books you should have
- Where there is no doctor
- Where there is no dentist
- Chemical Field Guide
- A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
- Edible Wild Plants
- Medical Terminology - An Illustrated Guide
- The Human Body - An Introduction to Structure and Function
- Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (hard to read but useful)
- Photovoltaics: Design and Installation
- Principles of Solar Engineering
- Principles of Wind Power
- The Wind Power Book
- Geothermal basics
- Books on growing, collecting, and storing seeds (get specific for what your area supports)
- Books on maintaining and repairing firearms (based on what you have)
- The Complete Modern Blacksmith
- Small pocketbooks on canning
- Woodworking and Carpentry books (you have to find ones you think are basic enough for most to use and will work with where you live…ie wood types, temperature etc..)
- How to Sprout Raw Food (books on sprouts)
- Books on the basics of cooking (when to boil water , when to bbq etc..)
- Electronics Guide to Understanding Electricity and Electronics
- Encyclopedia of Electronic Components
- Beginners Guide to Fishing
Now some general knowledge books and just good to read:
- When Technology Fails
- How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It
- How To Stay Alive In The Woods
- Sas Survival guide
- The Rangers handbook
- 98.6 Degrees
- When All Hell Breaks Loose
- The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook
- Northern Bushcraft
- And yes Patriot, as it has some good strategies and examples of tactics.

In General , take a look at what knowledge you will need to pass onto your kids and so on. If you had no contact with the world for 200 years what do you need to know? How will they learn this knowledge and what is important to learn. IE get some basic math and English books ready for them. Knowing things like how to build a bow may be important in the future, where knowing how to keep the game console going may not be.

Once you build your survival book list, start on the would like to have list. This could include great fiction, sci fi and fantasy books. What about books on art and music….if you have the space why not. Remember you have to keep a mind well rounded at all times. You never know where last min inspiration may come from.

Finally we have a very unique book, its our family book. Bound in leather, and we use a very durable acid free paper , sewn binding as well. This is a book of thoughts and knowledge we pass down to our family. It also tells some history. But the book has blank pages for others to write in as it gets passed down, in fact there is a blank book as well.

That should cover the basics of books and LPrep. Customize your own library of books, but always have backups. For us we have several friends with families that all have the basic list covered, so that’s many copies of the same book. Then they all customize their libraries so there are lots of good surprises in there.