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It's always a good idea to have the supplies needed to care for your family. I wouldn't rely on hospitals or doctors to store them for you. They didn't even have enough masks and gloves for a pandemic with a rather low mortality rate. What if something truly catastrophic hit?
Just because you store supplies, doesn't mean that you (as a layperson without medical training) are using them on someone else. You just want to have them on hand so that a doctor can properly care for your family. Lots of Venezuelans can find doctors but not supplies and medicines.
If you want books on off-grid medicine, The Survival Medicine Handbook, Armageddon Medicine, and Survival and Austere Medicine, 3rd Edition (free download) are very good.
If you want a guide on what medical supplies and medicines to stock and how a physician will use them, Bring Your Own Bandages: Medicines and Supplies to Have on Hand Before Disaster Strikes is an option.
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/AttachmentParenting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/AttachmentParenting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
r/collapse_parenting
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources:
/r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/moa25n/comment/gu7ci66/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/wjm703/comment/ijllcxn/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Also see Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
>I'm depressed because mass death and mass violence is coming, and I have children to protect.
r/collapse_parenting
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources:
/r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/moa25n/comment/gu7ci66/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/comments/wjm703/comment/ijllcxn/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Also see Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Also see Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
That sounds like a good attitude to me, as long as it’s what you really want and you’re doing it for the right reasons I say sounds good! :)
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Kuuvanmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century Book by Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson (fishing and especially river fishing)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
https://www.reddit.com/r/herblore/wiki/index
https://www.reddit.com/r/herbalism/wiki/index
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse_parenting/
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
You could always join the military (doesn’t have to be anything combat related), EMS, or anything else that could help you with exposure to stress and pressure. Take up MMA as a hobby? If it helps, the main issue with collapse, and the main thing that will kill off most people, is a simple lack of ability or knowledge on how to grow food, provide water, and make medicine and clothing. Virtually everyone in society, including people who think they know how to do these things, lack the real depth of proficiency required to do so.
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
As far as your veganism goes, there’s zero way you’re going to be able to accomplish that while being offgrid. But a local omnivore diet kills less animals and is better for the planet anyway, as veganism is inherently tied to the industrial agricultural system.
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Here are some links on permaculture, homesteading, primitive skills, and choosing a location. There’s also additional links for parents and people desiring a greater understanding of collapse and the systemic forces at play behind it.
Let me know if you have any questions or need clarification. I’m happy to expand or elaborate on any topic.
Food Forest and Permaculture:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_grain#Advantages_of_perennial_crops
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
Good forum: www.permies.com
Great resources: /r/Permaculture/wiki/index
https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLge-w8RyhkLbaMqxKqjg_pn5iLqSfrvlj
https://www.reddit.com/r/AssistedMigration/
Animals, Livestock, and Homesteading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homesteading/wiki/index
http://skillcult.com/freestuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalTracking/wiki/resources
https://www.reddit.com/r/foraging/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Hunting/wiki/
https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/wiki/faq/
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL60FnyEY-eJAb1sT8ZsayLWwFQ_p-Xvn7
Site for heritage/heirloom breeds: https://livestockconservancy.org/
General Survival Skills:
google search CD3WD
Has some good resources archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912152524/https://ps-survival.com/
library.uniteddiversity.coop
https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
https://modernsurvivalonline.com/survival-database-downloads/
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/10-static/155-about-us
https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx
Learn Primitive Skills:
Search 'Earthskills Gathering' and your location.
http://www.grannysstore.com/Wilderness_Survival/SPT_Primitive_Technology.htm
https://www.wildroots.org/resources/
http://www.hollowtop.com/spt_html/spt.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/primitivetechnology/wiki/
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com
https://gillsprimitivearchery.com
https://www.robgreenfield.org/findaforager/
Books:
Several animal tracking books and wild animal field guides by Mark Elbroch
John McPherson, multiple wilderness living guides
Bushcraft by Mors Kochanski
Botany in a day book
Sam Thayer, multiple books on foraging
Newcomb wildflower guide
Country Woodcraft by Drew Langsner.
Green Woodworking by Mike Abbott
(Any books by your local Trapper’s Associations)
Permaculture, A Designer's Manual (find online as a pdf) by Bill Mollison, and also An Introduction to Permaculture by the same.
I've heard starting with 'Gaia's Garden' by Hemenway is good for and even more intro-ey intro, and Holmgren's 'Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability' I've also heard good things about.
Deerskins to Buckskins by Matt Richards, also a future book on bark tanning
Traditional Tanning and Fish Leather, both by Lotta Rahme
Any books by Jill Oakes for skin sewing.
Fish That We Eat by Anore Jones, free online as a pdf.
(Not a book, but I’ve been advised in regards to fishing to get a cast net, a seine, and a gill net (perhaps multiple with different mesh sizes) and that it’s better than regular pole fishing. Also many crawdad traps.)
Primitive Technology 1 and 2 from the Society for Primitive Technology
The Traditional Bowyer's Bible, 4 volumes, by Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, and Paul Comstock.
Medical
Any kind of native plant ethnobotany used by the indigenous in your area, some resources here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ethnobotany
Where There is No Doctor by David Werner
Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
https://jts.amedd.army.mil/assets/docs/cpgs/Prolonged_Casualty_Care_Guidelines_21_Dec_2021_ID91.pdf
https://prolongedfieldcare.org/2022/01/07/prolonged-casualty-care-for-all/
https://theprepared.com/courses/first-aid/
https://theprepared.com/forum/thread/essential-medical-library-books/
https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552
https://seafarma.nl/pdf/International%20Medical%20Guide%20for%20Ships%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Wilderness medicine/ wilderness EMT courses, although these are on the opposite end of the spectrum from regular medicine and assume that you can’t stock up or access any medication or equipment
Choosing a Location
Most people have very erroneous beliefs about what places will do well and what will do poorly. They tend to think latitude + heat = good temp, as if the existing ecosystem there that's spent 20,000 years being adapted to winter is just a trivial thing. The reality is that you have to know a little about climate change, a little about ecology, and enough geography to point at the failing jet stream on a map and stay away from it.
Keeping this all in mind, I would recommend:
One of the smaller islands of Hawaii, Michigan Upper Peninsula, or the mountains of Appalachia; particularly Southern Appalachia.
Places outside the US would be the mountains of South America, New Zealand, Argentina/Uruguay, and a few small pacific islands.
A cursory look without real research suggest that certain Afro-Montane Ecosystems might be fine climate-wise, no word on their government or economy, as well as the mountains of Papau New Guinea.
You want to be at elevation in a hot-adapted ecosystem. Heat/humidity decrease with elevation, and hot-adapted ecosystems are much more resilient in the face of a rapidly warming planet. They also tend to be further from the collapsing jet stream.
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/change-atmosphere-altitude
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-013-1794-9
https://news.ucsc.edu/2021/03/tropicalization-plants-freezing.html
Conversely, cold-adapted ecosystems won’t exist in a few decades, and you with them if you live there. This can be easily seen already with the increasing amount of wildfires and droughts, heat domes and other extreme and unpredictable weather, proliferation of ticks and other pests, invasive species, and all kinds of other issues in Canada, Siberia, and other northern cold-adapted locales. The only time you should go poleward is to go toward the South Pole, as it will continue to exist and regulate temperatures much longer than the North Pole will.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation/?amp
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/climate-change-is-happening-too-fast-for-animals-to-adapt
https://www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/topics/assisted-migration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_migration
Raising kids:
Study:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921163709.htm
This is a whole series if your curiosity is piqued:
Article:
https://www.newsweek.com/best-practices-raising-kids-look-hunter-gatherers-63611
Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna
Juju Sundin’s Birth Skills
The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff
Baby-led weaning by Gill Rapley
Diaper Free by Ingrid Bauer
The Diaper-Free Baby by Christine Gross-Loh
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Talk Collection Series by Joanna Faber
Baby Sleep Training for New Parents Helen Xander
Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
Holistic Sleep Couching and Let’s Talk About Your New Family’s Sleep by Lyndsey Hookway
Greater understanding of the actors, forces, and processes behind collapse and our current systems, collected here:
Happy to share.
Theprepared.com has an online course that looks good.
They also have a list of essential medical reference books.
The "Survival Medicine Handbook" from the Doom and Bloom duo looks good.
The "Where there is no doctor" and "no dentist" texts are classics and pretty easy to find as pdfs.
I'm excited about this DoD document as it's recent, explicitly evidence-based, and free :)
The Survival Medicine Handbook: THE essential guide for when medical help is NOT on the way https://www.amazon.com/dp/0988872552/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_1XGWWDH1SEAJHPY8SJ9A
Ok... I'll try and re-answer your question more directly... IF you needed to take care of more serious things yourself, you're in bit of a bad state. I'd recommend against trying to do surgery, you're more likely to do more damage (this is why surgeons don't jump on using a scalpel right away, it's easy to nick something you don't want to).
But, you can take a look at the following:
- Adventure Medical Kits (the bigger ones) have a small book in them, give it a read (and / or just pick one up, they're pretty good): https://savannaharsenal.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/comprehensive-guide-to-wilderness-travel-medicine.pdf
- Survival Medicine Handbook. I understand that this one is good too (i haven't read it yet): https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-essential-medical/dp/0988872552/ref=pd_sbs_4/134-4548416-5097921?pd_rd_w=9YpMt&pf_rd_p=3676f086-9496-4fd7-8490-77cf7f43f846&pf_rd_r=5E3V1V0WTF60KT3PWYED&pd_rd_r=b913e204-5a65-4164-b1be-9dc3cc6f06dc&pd_rd_wg=bIgZs&pd_rd_i=0988872552&psc=1
- SAS Survival Handbook. I also hear its good and have it but not read yet. https://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Third-Surviving/dp/0062378074
There isn't a lot that I would "print out". I would rather have well organized and comprehensive books on topics that I don't know much about. For me, it is going to be emergency medical info like the The Survival Medicine Handbook and the Adventure Medical Kits Marine Medicine, plant and animal field guides for your region (particularly ones that cover medicinal and edible plants), and things like Farmer's Almanacs. My bug out option is by boat, so having not horribly out of date marine charts and this years tide tables is important also.
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