This year "I'm trying to work smarter for twice the income" I can't do it all alone and I know most other people can't either. Things with the economy/ weather are getting worse every year. I have more hope than before but a sence of urgency as well with the pressures the government's making to end my only way to make decent $ in my profession

Most people are ducked like me if their job goes and they or they die/ get really sick./ wife dies/ ice storms happens for a month. Why can't we combine my rual location and your skills and adapt and overcome. Community saved the pioneers of this land and it's the answer now too. The only real way to live and be prepared at the same time. My life now is putting out fires while trying to create passive income to ease future burdens. I try to do fun things to spice it up but that's not real living. It's the best I can do alone

Most people are ducked like me if their job goes and they or they die/ get really sick./ wife dies/ ice storms happens for a month. Why can't we combine my rual location and your skills and adapt and overcome. Community saved the pioneers of this land and it's the answer now too. The only real way to live and be prepared at the same time. My life now is putting out fires while trying to create passive income to ease future burdens. I try to do fun things to spice it up but that's not real living. It's the best I can do alone

Dont despair protectors. Sounds like your working hard at improving your life and for those around you. Keep at it, things usually improve for those who persist.

We all need to adapt, stick to doing the right thing and ignore the nay sayers. keep on trucking!

despair protectors. Sounds like your working hard at improving your life and for those around you. Keep at it, things usually improve for those who persist.

We all need to adapt, stick to doing the right thing and ignore the nay sayers. keep on trucking!

Thxs Bud!

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I've started posting my updates at: https://community.thrivethrough.com/ . I love this site too but posting pictures and keeping track of everything is easier on Thrive Through. Once you see all the pictures of our homestead life and videos one day soon. You'll see why we're the perfect place to bug out to!

I got a guest access button added to the thrivethrough.com site. I'll add any post I made to this site if I'm asked too.

Gardens going well in zone 2. Still looking for hard working folks to share my land with. Near Cochrane, Ontario. PM for info.

Lots of work into making those beds, someone takes their weeding to the max 🙂

Took a whole summer by hand with a cast. Community could have done it in 3-4 days. That's why I looking so hard! Someone Coming for 2-3 weekends or a week a year and we could give them enough food to pay their gas in meat/ fruit and veggies. You have to fight for community now days. I'd take this deal anywhere in Canada if I could! Free place to live and enough free food if I help a little to feed my family without pesticides. I'm Different though

In fact anyone would like a family to come over and help them advance their homestead and exchange safe places to go if things stay as is or get bad please let me know. I'll make the first step and if I work hard enough you come to my homestead and do the same. Not required by very cool karma would be satisfied. Anywhere in Canada!

Gardens going well in zone 2. Still looking for hard working folks to share my land with. Near Cochrane, Ontario. PM for info.36522091_2131148340443328_4190135768598970368_o.jpg

That is impressive. What might be missed with just a quick look at that picture is the work beyond building those boxes. You cant get a front end loader in there. I suspect it took a lot of work with a spade a wheel barrel to fill those boxes!

I hope someone takes you up on it, I know how much work goes into my own homestead and gardens. I am lucky enough to get the odd helping hand

Some harvest pictures!

Everyone thinks their prepared for a day without power; What about 3 days on a homestead? We lost power in the mourning that was hot and just after a heat wave. 

  I wake up in the afternoon after getting home from the night shift. The power was out and our preps were being tested. I had bought water that mourning so that saved us from the fact the well wasn't working. The money was in the bank so thank goodness the Internet worked and it wasn't EMP. Wife said we couldn't make dinner. Stove was out and so was the propane and we were on a fire ban to boot. I remembered about the two butane stoves and lots of butane I had put away just in case. So we did have a nice stir fry that night.

  My son left the fridge open a crack so the temperature in the fridge was going down fast. I put 4ltrs of frozen bags of milk to put it back up. We didn't put blankets on the appliances as we thought it was going to last a few mins like all the other outtages. 

 I looked at my 2600 Sq ft garden and dreaded hauling that much water from the creek to water it on top of the greenhouse. We only had one waterer but I would use my food grade buckets so I'd be ok. I went to look to see how the creek was fairing. Bone dry! I'd be ok for one day but I'd be hauling water in my old SUV a km away if it didn't come back by tommorow. It would take hours on end to get the job done

 I was playing chess with my boy when the power came back on. Kids rushed for the Internet without ever knowing how close we were from buying a generator to keep everything cold and hauling water till we were blue in the face.

 My prepper friend talked about getting an inverter for my SUV and I remembered I had one already. Untested; new in the box. I'll have to try it before I get caught again. A trick for someone with a small inverter is to connect a smaller car to a bigger car with booster cables and then connecting the inverter to get larger appliances going. We have all metal roofing but no rain catchment. Another project that got put aside when life took over. No gas, money, propane and very little  reserves. It was now clear we needed an active MAG and pond as well more than ever.

 I was happy for the lesson and realized that a prepper quickly becomes a sheeple without his preps and community! I hope you learn from my mistakes so you don't get stuck in this lucky situation or much much worse.

I tried adding a few pictures but it said error file to large. Just a regular pictures from my passport.

Stay safe by being prepared!

Do you have a situation that tested your preparations? 

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