The Best Strategies To Thrive When Modern Conveniences Aren’t An Option
by AMY S.
PrepperFortress.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
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‘The “Good Old Days” were those of just recent decades past. In the 1800s and centuries previous the pioneer folk had it unimaginably difficult. People grew soft – and had no idea. City folk could not even begin to do the work of the real farmers who still ran small farms.
An US candidate for president once promised 40 acres and a mule. I always said that the only way I would have possibly made it through the first winter was to eat the mule. The pioneers were survivalists and had survival skills beyond any that we can imagine.
In addition to not having the “toughness”, work habits and skills of the early pioneers – we do not have their resources. There are no buffalo herds and there is nowhere near that the deer and antelope play in sufficient number to support most survivors. Those who have taken survival courses that have taught them to go out into the woods and survive will be sorely disappointed. Such animals that have survived the radiation will be in very short supply relative to the survivors that would be in competition for them.
One will not have the horses, wagons or other implements that were necessary to pioneer survival. There will be a far larger population survive than there were pioneers a few centuries ago and there will be far fewer resources of the kind that sustained them. The early settlers of our village were confidant in their ability to find in a few minutes enough fish in the stream to make supper. Even in my early days in the village a person could promise the night before that they would go out on the bridge out our back door and get fresh fish for breakfast – and make good their promise. But those days are gone. Fished out and poisoned out by salt on the roads and pesticide run-off from the farmer’s fields. At this writing fish no longer come safe even from the farmer’s markets without warnings that they are hazardous to expectant mothers.
No, we can’t return to the old days – even if we want to. But fortunately we have many, many other advantages. We don’t have to cut the forests to gain agricultural ground. We know many things the pioneers did not. Childbirth was a great hazard to pioneer women – simply because people did not know to wash their hands. We have a great advantage in modern knowledege – but we may well need to supplement that, at least for a while, with some of the pioneer knowledge and skills that we have forgotten about. That is the purpose of this page.
This page does not stand by itself, anymore than do any of the others. There may be some items just as important to the subject that will be found in the pages on small farming but all that information will probably be just as important to kno.w
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