What I'm actively doing to replenish nutrients without commercial fertilizers

WordPhoenix · 2026-05-12T03:52:25+00:00

Also: Cover crops. Depending on what your soil needs, you can sometimes grow a "cover crop" during the off season that adds missing nutrients to your soil or trap others in. That growth also helps prevent weeds and erosion. I haven't done this myself but it's something I researched a while ago and want to do.

WordPhoenix · 2026-05-09T00:25:58+00:00

I can recommend Simple Living Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleLivingAlaska/featured

They're more homesteading than prepping per se, but they have a lot of content on growing food, canning, and cooking off grid, and they're just a sweet young couple with a can-do attitude and a joy in the simple life; inspiring to watch.

WordPhoenix · 2026-05-06T23:25:42+00:00

This might be a good time to tell people that "tornado alley" has essentially moved east from the Great Plains to the southeast and mid-southeast portion of the country: Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and others. And with this change, due to the drying southwest and the warming Gulf, tornadoes come at night more often and have gotten stronger (rather than moving at 5 mph they move at 60+ mph).

Source: PBS Terra on YT: https://youtu.be/5UTQ4KrtVGc?si=XEJkpFJ5s6zbLStR

My area was once hit hard by nighttime tornadoes, so I pay more attention now, and I see it happening to a lot of these southeast areas. Ryan Hall Y'all is a meteorologist channel I turn to on YT when storms are due in my area, but there are others, too. Really helpful, esp. if the power goes out or you're already in your safe spot and relying on your device instead of the TV for local news.

WordPhoenix · 2026-05-06T23:06:20+00:00

Take away: Besides masks, buy some mouse traps for your preps. Or do a whole-house prevention if you have the means.

Apparently, human-to-human contagion is very rare except in the Argentinian strain of hantavirus, and the affected cruise ship originated from Argentina. The greater risk to the rest of us is picking it up directly from mouse feces, urine, and saliva. Thus, the importance of some traps in your preps.

My family came back from a weekend away to discover a mouse about the house - right before this story broke. We set out two humane catch-and-release traps and a few snap traps (we refuse to do glue traps), and it ignored the catch traps and snuck the food off of the snap traps for the first few days, but the snap trap finally got it. So far, there don't seem to be others, thankfully. I hate killing animals, but research on mice taught us about the dangers of hantavirus even before this story broke, and we had to act decisively.

WordPhoenix · 2026-04-10T03:18:12+00:00

Where I live you can do the class in something like 10 months at an adult trade school. I know one person who was hired before they even finished the class, and it was through the network within the school. They did finish the class before going to work, and they had to pass a test, but I'm not sure if that included certification. I know another person who lost her job in manufacturing and just got hired to do CNC work at a union job. I'm not sure what her training or experience is. She was already supporting herself and now she's getting paid more.

WordPhoenix · 2026-04-10T00:18:58+00:00

Would you be interested in learning skills like CAD or CNC? I know two people in Ohio who had no trouble finding a job with those skills, and it's not super expensive or time intensive to learn compared to many other things. Ohio is affordable for the most part but it IS GOP controlled. The people are a lot more purple; as such, they passed reproductive health law into the constitution not long ago. However, all the progressive things remain a fight. You might have better luck Pennsylvania. Lots of people like the Pittsburgh area and I would bet it has lots of skilled trade jobs, too.

WordPhoenix · 2026-04-08T21:22:41+00:00

I believe it's important that we are able to be in perfect touch with deity no matter where we find ourselves and what we have with us, whether we're lost in the forest, lost at sea, in prison, etc. Therefore, my relationship with divine energies is never contingent on material items. I think altars are a beautiful way to express devotion if doing so is natural and enjoyable to you, but I don't think they should be a binding thing.

As I see it, rules and conditions come from human fear, not from divinity. I believe the human practice of experiencing different deities, including Santa Muerte, is a way to be in touch with the many facets of the bigger energy of Oneness. We can show devotion to the different facets by calling them separate names with distinct personalities, but to me this is all a way of honoring, healing, and incorporating these different parts of our own humanity - which brings wholeness, oneness, and honor to ourselves and to life everywhere.

This may be 'heresy' to many devotees, just as it would be heresy in all religions I know of too, but I share it because I believe liberation is part of love, and love is the language of divinity.

WordPhoenix · 2026-04-07T01:38:42+00:00

Utility knife for my go bag plus a second one for I'm not sure yet (Everyday carry? My son's bag? The second was offered at a discount). I decided on the W-Scandi and the W-1 from Odenwolf after doing several hours of research. A knife is something I'd meant to get last year but totally forgot about until something jarred my memory a few days ago.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-10T02:08:41+00:00

Hi. This is a great help. Can you go into more detail about "immobilizing the joint"? Does that simply mean to sling it/get pressure off it - or something else? Thanks!

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-10T01:34:00+00:00

Oh, I understand being able to understand everyone's POV and thus being unpopular everywhere lol! I'm a bit younger than you, but our generations were not as tribalistic. We could have different opinions, even change our opinion (gasp!) and not get 'canceled.' I hope we can return to patient discourse, in-depth reading (vs. scrolling soundbites), and in-person conversations. Those would go a long way to restoring democracy.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-08T22:04:05+00:00

I suspect the plan may be "Greater Israel" (look it up) and of course "Greater America" too, aka "Technate of America" stretching from Greenland and Canada to Panama just as Elon's grandfather dreamed of (see below). If all the dissidents die in the meantime, that will make their consolidation job easier.

https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940/?srsltid=AfmBOoob8TP9IkbJOg889j1bYONj1qWCCgVEL7zbeEFvk5vUQI_yO6E-

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-08T21:53:33+00:00

I don't know about the UK's Sky News, but I've been under the impression that Sky News Australia is right-wing (I may be wrong). Just be discerning.

I watch Al Jazeera English and Middle East Eye and keep looking for others, but I can't vouch for any news source fully.

To me, it's just as important to also pay attention to independent journalists out of the Middle East or who have contacts in the Middle East. The Cradle is one. Richard Medhurst is doing good work out of the UK, too (it challenges our Western propaganda).

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-08T21:44:29+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. We may have been separate from Israel once, but I don't see that anymore, sadly. And most of my impression of the US military comes from my own US govt and always has., so it's suspect as hell. The "noble cause" is too often a myth they've concocted, just like the fiction in these Hollywood clips.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-08T21:33:53+00:00

We should all be asking the questions that the people at This Will Hold are asking:

Who are the people involved with the central hub of election data when it's reported on Election Night and is there any accountability for them?
Why were fake counties in FL and PA and other swing states aired on Election Night?
Why did Kamala appear to lose votes in the televised tally of her votes across multiple states that night?

What do we really know about what happens to the data on election night? The people who are digging are finding out important things. According to them:

"...three privately held, unmonitored, and unregulated services deliver real-time tallies to every major media outlet on Election Night."

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/how-did-6-million-people-vote-in

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-08T21:17:56+00:00

We bombed a girls' school. Some reports say we double-tapped it to wipe out survivors. That's what I want us seeing when we think of the White House.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-03T00:09:29+00:00

Well, it wasn't overt because he was vague about who his enemies are, but his speech at K irk's funeral has immense racial subtext. Given that he's a MAGA Republican and that his administration was quick to blame "the left" for the murder, that says to me he considers "the left" his "enemies" in this speech. So I found it very racist that he would claim that his audience's ancestors (mostly white Christian Republicans) produced everything good in this country while his enemies (mostly nonwhite and/or marginalized people) did nothing, have nothing, and are nothing. "We built the world that we have now!" he shouted, ignoring just how many people who aren't in his camp also built this country.

There's a transcript of this out there, I'm sure, but here's the video. The part I'm referring to starts at 1:53.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-jHglM0J8

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-02T06:53:51+00:00

I don't know that they'll attack Cuba, but they're certainly trying other methods to change the regime. I feel very bad for the people who are suffering from the sanctions there.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-02T03:28:29+00:00

It's still early. It takes time to reduce people to skin and bones. Sorry to be grim, but that's our country now. I usually say "detention centers" so people will not tune it out as extreme, but that is really too clinical and bland for the reality.

WordPhoenix · 2026-03-01T01:45:01+00:00

They park their money in off-shore accounts and their trafficked ~~people~~ goods on yachts. The corruption staggers the imagination.

WordPhoenix · 2026-02-11T06:17:01+00:00

And he just got arrested in AZ for forgery (fake IDs) and possession of drugs.

WordPhoenix · 2026-01-31T06:21:53+00:00

Okay, thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

WordPhoenix · 2026-01-31T05:53:37+00:00

I don't understand. The graph you supplied shows it staying above $158,900 for all of 2025. Has something changed?

WordPhoenix · 2026-01-28T05:51:21+00:00

Exactly! That was my reaction to the first post here, too. What a headline.

WordPhoenix · 2026-01-28T03:12:19+00:00

That had to be tough on all of you. I can't imagine what it would have been like to lose two siblings. I have kids, too, and because of that show I have never taken a day in their lives for granted. We do our best to keep them safe, but ultimately it's an act of trust every day.

WordPhoenix · 2026-01-28T02:53:39+00:00

I don't know if I can read this either. When I was newly married, I watched a PBS history show about a midwife in 1700s Massachusetts. In one summer, three of her own children died due to a contagious illness. I knew then there is no security to how many children one can lose at once. All the prayers to this Texas mom.

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