Getting to know me

If you're interested in reading more about me and my family, and our lives here on our remote off-grid homestead in NW Montana, my husband keeps a blog, which includes a lot of pictures:

http://www.livinglifeoffgrid.blogspot.com

There's about three years' of what it's like to live with solar electric power in the north, garden in this challenging climate, preserving our food, foraging, hunting, fishing, trapping, washing laundry in washtubs with a hand-cranked wringer, using rainwater and snowmelt for household use, living on what's basically a 3-mile, steep, one-lane, goat trail 4-wheel drive road, having grizzly bears, wolves, and mountain lions roam through our yard (pics from game camera!), and much, much more.

I'm not selling anything.  Just sharing it with those who are interested.

Firearms

If you're interested in learning about firearms, either for defense or for hunting,

this is a great beginner's book:

 

The Gun Guide for People who Know Nothing about Firearms

 

 

It's a good, plain-English book about everything you need to know.
 

It's here! Poverty Prepping in print!

 

Poverty Prepping in print version!

Here it is, new cover and all!

Available now at:

 

Poverty Prepping: How to Stock up For Tomorrow When You Can't afford to Eat Today

 

List price is $5.99

 

The kindle version is available at the same link, for $2.99



New Book - Food Self-Sufficieny: Reality Check

It's here!

 

 

    More great information for preppers, homesteaders, and others who have a goal to work toward food self-sufficiency!  Find out what you'll need and how much, to produce and store your own food!  Read great tips from my own experiences.  A great deal, for only .99 on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Food-Self-Sufficiency-Reality-Check-ebook/dp/B0097G797U/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1347456082&sr=8-14&keywords=susan+gregersen

Here's a list of the chapters in the book, so you can see if there's a subject of particular interest to you:

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Gardening

Chapter 2 Jars
Chapter 3 Chickens
Chapter 4 Other Domestic Meat Animals
Chapter 5 Grains
Chapter 6 Foraging
Chapter 7 Hunting
Chapter 8 Fishing
Chapter 9 Conclusion

And here's the Introduction, copied and pasted from the book file.  It'll might help you decide whether to buy the book.


Introduction

     Often in conversations the subject comes up about growing or producing our own food. Some people want to move to the country and get into small-time farming, and some just want to have a garden. Others want to have a few meat animals around, such as chickens or rabbits.

    There are also those who want to work toward producing most or all of their own food. Some like the independence and some worry about future hardships, either from natural disasters or man-made events.

         But if you're going to grow a garden or crops, what do you need to do that? How much land? What type of land? How will you preserve and store the food you grow?

Animals need shelter and food. Do you have a place to put your chickens, rabbits, goats, calves, or other animals? What will you feed them if times are hard? How will you feed them now, if your goal is self-sufficiency? Will your plan include buying feed, or growing it yourself?

         In addition to gardening and raising animals, other sources for food self-sufficiency include foraging, hunting, and fishing. What supplies or equipment will you need to do these things? What laws will you have to follow, and do they allow you enough plants or animals to meet your needs.

         This books is about the numbers. It's not a how-to book, it's about what you need for the “how to”. We'll look at how to figure out how much space you need for gardens or animals, how many jars you'll need if you plan to get into canning, and what other options there are for storing food.

         I'll talk about animals and their needs, and suggest ways to feed and shelter them that won't break your bank account. I'll try to point you the right direction to find out what you need to know about foraging, hunting, and fishing, plus share some tips from my own experiences.

        This book is geared toward those with limited funds, but will also be helpful to more prosperous readers who are considering growing or otherwise providing for most or all of their own food. The 'how-to' may vary but the numbers are the same, whether you're rich or poor.

         Some people are 'preppers' and have been buying and storing food in case of hard times. It's a great plan, but knowing how to produce your own food is real security. Hand in hand with that is knowing what you'll need to produce, preserve, and store that food. That is what this book is about.

 

This book kind of snuck it's way from my mind and out my fingers on the computer keyboard.  It's not the second book I'd planned to write, and still plan to write.  But now that one will be Poverty Prepping, Volume 3, and whatever subtitle I give it.

 

So keep those stories and comments coming.  The winners of our prep items contest will be in the third book...the one that was meant to be the second book!

 

Susan