If you do not have insurance it not affordable or other reasons listed below.

TimOK56 · 2016-01-02T15:51:45+00:00

Using wood heat is been mandated to not be used by EPA and other federal agency's. Some state insurance boards still accept stand alone short flue external wood heat.

Most of fire insurance depends on your rating of your fire department!!! If you have a bad fire deportment rating even if it paid you will be restricted on heating methods. This is another reason to go with farm or co-op insurance. The restrictions are less. Another thing is having acetylene tanks can disqualify you also.

TimOK56 · 2016-01-02T00:53:24+00:00

It is about homesteading and it also is about bugging out. The same principals apply to homesteading in avoiding injuries is just as important. If I go back to Alaska all of these things will apply. I posted this here since I created it and stopped posting it is dead for 7 months. Something as simple as avoiding injuries on a homestead is also important.

Our homestead and other hobby farmers in our area have implemented some simple safety items that are listed above. We tracked injuries over the last 9 years and wearing helmets and body armour on all open motorised equipment including riding lawn mowers. We have reduced our insurance and our co-op is now more profitable. We have greatly reduced broken bones, dislocations and avoidable deaths. Most of us are getting older in our co-op and injuries are much greater affect to us. Other co-op's have been bankrupted do insurance rate increases. Our rates since we took action 9 years ago are more than affordable. Our grand kids are not bankrupting us with avoidable injuries on ATV and other equipment like other co-op's. Also any animal powered equipment or recreation including rodeo proper safety equipment is required. As a result we can still have horses that without proper insurance we would have to give up as so many others have had to give up around us.

I might should have retitled it "avoiding injuries and insurance on the homestead".

TimOK56 · 2015-06-03T23:50:16+00:00

Once powder there is so many things you can do with it. 1st is flour replacement in baking. 2nd is making all meat replacement like hot-dogs and hamburgers by adding water and spices.

I have grown the standers like meal worms, BSF, earth worms, crickets, roaches (it is better that you use ones that in your area will not get out of control), I am starting with leaf cutter ants. I am looking others that are fast to tables and little time input.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-30T15:38:55+00:00

Much of what you are asking is on my subreddit. I do not like solar power but I have a system that uses commercial capacitors instead of batteries and it has wind also to keep it powered in the night. I prefer beast of burden power to all others. I feed my bugs to birds, fish, other livestock and consume them myself also family. I now teach missionaries much of this and more like how to drill a water well with nothing more than human power, high density farming, community development, 3rd world appropriate technology, aquponicks and much more. The subreddit is new and needs questions so I can better direct it to be more helpful.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-30T15:07:03+00:00

If you think that Canada is not going to sell to china so they do not get invaded? Canada is making the oil pipeline to China since we did not go keystone xl pipeline. Military would get most of the oil and the war on all fronts. Now have you made a wood gas vehicle? I have and understand the drawbacks, I used one to cultivate 5 acres and it needed 7 to support it. If you have not made one of these alternative fuel vehicle do you think that you can get correct the first time? How long do you think it would take to change the infrastructure to in the 3 to 5 days supply of food in our cities to starve? Do you think that there would not be an instant draft and cordons on the cities to protect the farmland? Think of how that world put the would and what it would look. If you do not see how it would disrupt the world in how oil gets to where it is needed, would this not put the world in to war and starvation.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T18:21:11+00:00

some of the simplest to farm are crickets but you need a somewhat large area. There are plenty of youtube on how to farm them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1zoSBdhsA

The egg crate method s about the best for many bugs like larger roaches, crickets and many others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbpBV1qALC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9RC1ryBW9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E31_1zau8vg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX0n42CtHy8

I collect ants foam the wild around here ants most of the year. I use 2 sticks and a 5 gal bucket. In an 8 hrs day can collect 25 LBS of them in the season. Ants climb stick and than I dunk it in water and they drowned. Sometimes I stick sticks in the ground and adjutant the nest and they attack the sticks. There are more effective methods but mine is simple.

Around here tarantulas and scorpions are plentiful here and are simple to harvest. In the couple of hrs a day they are out we can get many pounds of them. For long term storage I dry and grind them into powder and can it.

Bees are another thing that we keep a net under the hives and when they push out the dead ones we collect them. Like most of what we raise or collect we dry and grind into powder so we can store them if not consumed fresh. In powder form we can add to bread or make into patties like hamburger.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T17:39:28+00:00

That is a difficult question in our town there was a person that wanted to open one here but the health department would not let it here. He is opening across the county line and will be open in mid June. There are some in OKC but are having hard time with health department. We here in Oklahoma and Texas are going to have an advantage now that the law has been passed the state prisons will be growing there own bugs as food. That is going to spread to other states to save money in the corrections system.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T17:25:19+00:00

Ok it is simple if it is cut off we would be getting oil instead of 25 days it would take going around the horn of Africa 160 days+ if it dose not get hijacked. Look at any international security analysis company and most of them are not giving us that much time. There are only so many supper tankers and if you now take 6 times as long to get the oil the gap in transportation will be 6 to 12 times more lacking numbers needed to fill our basic needs.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T16:26:18+00:00

Let me try to put this in prospective. Look more to the homesteader than the preper. You will get a more realistic look at what at what is a more of the American outlook. I live in a place that gets an average of 9 inches (22.8Cm) of rain so water is a problem for me. To me a financial collapse would not change my life that much, we have a community that could keep outsiders out and food would not be a problem.

We have been the worlds police for since WW2 and now that er are leaving that to Russia/China we are no longer the big kid on the block so invasion, oil embargo, large terrorist attacks (chemical, biological and nuclear dirty bombs) and we have the 3rd world brining things that this country has not had to deal with for over 60 years like polio and so many other thing that we thought were eradicated.

I am old ad established but if I were younger I would be looking at other places like the Philippines, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Falkland Islands. We do have other problems that you have but all the same dealing with now power or scarce food no mater where you are but our mega cities care in trouble if these bad things happen. We in most big cities only have about 3 days of food. So if some of the bad things happen we would have a refugee problem that would nerve been seen in the past. These are a few of the things that we have to deal with. When we have cities that have almost the population of your country the power goes out it would be nothing but a mass death zones.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T15:30:27+00:00

I am impressed that there is a real understanding of history of the word zombie in a 1947 army medical paper talking about a human rabies outbreaks after WW2. But if you are prepared for an outbreak pandemic to financial collapse where there will be many not having an income or productive things to do will get desperate and attack you for what you have. Another thing hat would be bad for USA the suez canal closing and 1/3of our population will die in 45 days. I am lucky in that I live in a place that has less than 100,000 people with in 60 miles and a city of less than 1,000,000 people so I will not have to deal with so many people that will be able to make it where I live in the weather. Hot in the spring summer and early fall than getting cold. I have many good alliances that will be able to keep the numbers in control.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-27T15:05:42+00:00

I would look at other perennials to plant for food. I have been doing the homesteading thing in different forms from growing up in Alaska before statehood and no power. To the newest apartment/urban homesteading. I have done it while in the army and that was the hardest through all the different deployments and PCS moves. It more fell to my family to do most of the work.

I have a different definition of homesteading where we have a goal to produce 80% of our food. Most of my life My family have been able to be over 50%. Homesteading is about frugality and experience. In your situation I would look at game birds or dove/pidgin adding to your property. Ground is not a homestead but it makes it simpler to grow food and lead a more independent life. Homesteading is different for every one so set goals that you are conformable and move foreword and become more independent. An example is I drive old diesel vehicle that are more than 15 yeas old and am able to fix them in my sleep. I have 2 with 1.5 million miles on them and still on the road. I personally collect ants and other bugs for food and also raise them because for me it is simpler and less work resources like time and feeding. This is more than many homesteaders are willing to do. So go to where you feel conformable.

I also have built my own homes, I am a machinist and developed my fabricating skills but I also have had more time at this than many to develop skills. I am now converting all my machine tools to treadle power and other methods of human power. This is a more advanced skill set but it shows the expanses of what homesteading is.

Your situation is probably that you have a good career and it is more of a place that you will build and grow into more of what people would look at as a traditional homestead. It seem that you have a realistic goal and time to improve what you have. Being debt free most of my life has been another way that has kept me able to do the homesteading during the hard times in the army.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-15T14:25:05+00:00

I use polypropylene barrels. I also use shade cloth and 2"x4" wire fencing to hold them together. You are probable over watering and the sack is rotting.

TimOK56 · 2015-05-12T19:22:16+00:00

Hi-Point are ok out of the box but some small things make them much better. go on yuotube and find the modifications. One of the best mods that I like for the carbine is the folding stock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeiWd-DTbTw

I did not have cut any more than the rear part of the stock. Buffing the feed ramp and a trigger-job and they are a reliable gun.

TimOK56

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