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Why fight nature?


Season 4 Episode 622


Today, we talk about working against nature and ask an important question: why?

Today's Sponsor: Paul Wheaton of Wheaton Labs and Permies.com

Paul Wheaton over at Wheaton Labs just released 16 hours of footage from his Rocket Mass Heater Jamboree innovators event. Using very little fuel, and producing next to no smoke, the folks down at the lab created a rocket sauna, cooktop, dehydrator, kiln, and a bunch of heater options for smaller spaces, and full-size homes.

Check it out here:

https://permies.com/wiki/188928f495/Earth-Friendly-Heat-Full-Event

This Week's Livestream Schedule

Headed to Back to the Land Festival this weekend: Backtothelandfestival.com

Tales From The Prepper Pantry

  • Precooking for SRF & the Food Forest Event - Lots of MEAT
  • Transitioning out of the canning kitchen and back to winter drying and freeze drying
  • Assessing if there is enough tomato crop to do one more round of salsa

Frugality Tip From Margo

First tip when traveling, is bring your snacks and road food, sandwiches or whatever you eat. This will save a lot of money on the road. I use re-usable ziploc bags to pack food up and I bring a half of a sponge and a small bottle of dish soap on the road to make sure I will be able to wash them no matter where we stay.

We keep a cooler in the car, I pre-freeze filtered water in 1 liter club soda bottles and use them in the cooler. All of the places we stayed have a refrigerator with freezer and the water bottles get re-frozen to use in the cooler, and we had filtered water as a back up if we needed to drink it.

For two nights I had rented an air bnb way outside of any town (even further out than the holler) lol. Once we got there the first night, we were not driving back 30 min to a store and then trying to find this place in the dark. I had packed some shelf stable foods that I did not need any tools to open, just in case. And I was able to make us dinner, saving time and money that night.

Shopping Report for 9/18/2022

We made five stops on our typical Saturday shopping trip. Traffic was light, and I only saw a few face-diapers.

First stop was Dollar Tree. The store has a lot of inventory, but is beginning to look a little unkempt. The food aisles have a lot of viable stuff, but the health aisle has a lot of unusual things in place of some more typical items, that have not been restocked in some time. The drink coolers seem to have a better selection.

Next was a Mexican store for a few specialty items like a vanilla flavoring and a few plantains. I've never seen their shelves not full. I've not done any real price comparison, but they have quite the variety. I've also never seen any kind of unpleasantness in there like arguing or rudeness.

Hobby Lobby was next. Stock levels seemed good, with a lot of Fall junk in there now, but I did see a couple of empty islands; probably just re-organizing.

Home Depot was #4. The pric


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