Foraging book

The book was presented as a resource that could help you identify foods that grow all around us. Maybe so, but after spending a few hours with it, I am a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of entries to sift through to get to even ONE that I can use.

It may have been wishful thinking, but I was hoping for something that may well be non-existent. If you want to eat when the SHTF, you are going to have to prepare and prepare HARD.

This won't be easy nor fast. It may take awhile to find things. There is some wild game around here that might do in an emergency, but you have to eat some veggies too. Can't eat meat all the time.

Eventually I may want to be able to transfer that skill to parts out west if I make it out there. Yep, it is now an "if", not a "when". It is there "if" or "when" I need it, but not right now.

The book is over 300 pages long, so there's plenty of material to look at. Unfortunately, it isn't for this area exclusively. It is for the whole of North America, which is a pretty big place. Yikes.

There are other sources, but I chose this one. Argh.

Update:10.9.21

The good news and the bad news was covered initially. It gets better as you get familiar with it. There's another book I've had since 2014 on my Kindle which is similar. Correlating the two may save some time. There is yet another book on Kindle, which I haven't looked at lately. Enough material here to get a decent education, or at least I hope as much.

It's not a book that you just sit down and read. It will require some field work. Little use for it otherwise. Consequently, it may be worked in as part of a larger strategy. Might be a good idea to keep my eyes peeled for any of these plants.

The more things that can be found that are edible the better. You never know when the SHTF.

Update: 10.10.21

Guide to Wild Foods

With respect to the source of this post, it is linked directly above. I got this from an ad, so be forewarned that it is there to sell you something. Yes, I did buy it, and I've looked over the material. I cannot endorse it as of yet, but it does appear to be quite comprehensive. As a further bonus, it does have plants that have MEDICINAL attributes. If the SHTF, you may need access to medicines, but there may not be any available.

A disaster could be of natural origin, such as the Carrington Event, which missed the Earth by only 9 days in 2012.

If such an event as that had occurred, the disaster could have ruinous and possibly catastrophic. Therefore, to be prepared for an event occurring is not fear mongering. There's too much of that already, and I don't wish to add to it. Only mention it to prepare yourself if at all feasible.

It is not only true with respect to natural events, but also man-made ones. The situation in the world is precarious, but it has always been so more or less. It looks like it is the former more than the latter these days, but that seems always the be the case.

Do your own diligence with respect to what is presented out there, including this source. By all means, do get busy.

Shocking material

Made out of electrons?

Comment:

It's not exactly made of electrons, that is if I am reading it right. It traps electons between two sheets of tungsten-based compound.

Even so, it should have a negative electrical charge. That should be the case, and if it is, it might be useful for something.

In the Polywell Fusion experiment, the idea was to create a "well" of electrons. The problem with the device is that the electrons had a nasty habit of escaping. The "well" is the effect that a large number of electrons confined to one space will create a very strong attractive force for a proton, or two protons. The idea was to get them to collide and produce a fusion reaction. If you can produce the same effect with these materials, could it produce fusion?

The advantage of the Polywell is that it isn't designed to heat up. It can be relatively small.

Another thought: you can speed up protons in an accelerator and then smash them together thereby hoping for a fusion reaction which would be significant enough to produce net power. Or would an acceleration be necessary if the thing already has a very deep well? You need to overcome the coulomb barrier, which is what prevent the fusion from taking place. Anyways, it is something I was thinking about when I came across this news item.

Wild Game Cooking--- Grilling Venison

Wild Game Cooking--- Grilling Venison

Comment:

In a world gone mad, it may be necessary to re-learn the most basic things.

At least, that is what I've been doing. I need to move a bit faster, I think...

The insanity of minting a trillion dollar platinum coin

Update:

Minting a trillion dollar coin

Comment:

Just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier, now this...

The original post on 1/8/13 follows

Rick Moran,  American Thinker

To use that authority to backdoor the 17th and 18th trillion dollars of the national debt would be, according to Castle, "so far-fetched and so black helicopter-ish a type of methodology of trying to resolve something like this that I think the public would totally scoff at it."

Comment:  I repeat, how is this any different from what they are already doing?  If this is crazy, then it all is.

But, I could have told you that already.

Hybrid solar farm and traditional farm

Comment:

Now here's something that might lend itself to mass production, but there are obstacles in its implementation.

The idea is to combine photovolatics with agriculture. Some crops respond well to a certain amount of shade. There is a penalty, however.

Since I'm not in business in my own off-grid project, the idea seems somewhat interesting. You could combine the solar panels with some crop production, and some climate control. It also reduces the amount of water needed, and seems to work well in arid regions.

Something to consider. You need some synergies to make all this work and be economical as well.

Tesla has struggled with solar

Comment:

There are a number of things that seem familiar, and that is not good news. It leads me to believe that there is little enforcement of the law.

Funny how those who shout "rule of law" are the same ones who are so, so quiet when stories like this start popping up.

Tesla is screwing people out of their money. But they come back for more. Hard to figure. Some of these people ( in the video) are from California, so that may explain it.

Solar may have its uses, but it doesn't lend itself easily to mass production and mass installation. Unfortunately, this is a key for success. Like all lefty brainchildren, it isn't much rooted in reality.

Fabian Socialism topic worth a look, but not a favorable one

Fabian socialism

An interesting discussion on CTH, which kinda jibes with what I've been saying. The further you drill down on this, the more it jibes. Know what I mean, Vern?

Anyway, "jibes" means agree, "jive" means to lie. It is on the mark, not off the mark, which is what I try to be as much as possible. If I get something wrong, I'd be happy to correct it.

I read through the piece and some of the comments, where I got constrained by time or whatever.

The comment section included a link to a book review called "School of Darkness". I didn't watch all the video, as I became somewhat impatient. Not that I disagreed, but it was taking too long to get through it, and I felt like I had other things I wanted to do.

Fabian Socialism , Updated:

Ah, nearly forgot. Always in a hurry...

The phrase du jour these days seems to be the "public good before the private good." Well, it so happens that that very phrase was used to usher in the Nazi regime in Germany.

Yep. Don't believe it? Go look it up in the book called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by ????. Forgot the author, but his name was a lot bigger in the past. Of course, the current cancel culture would like to forget the past, because of inconvenient truths like this one.

It is a slippery slope to hell. Also, the road is paved with good intentions. Which also reminds me of what was reported to have been said at the Beer Hall Putsch, which was one of Hitler's ideas. It was said when men in the beer hall became restless, and they were told about the "good intentions" of what they were doing, and not to worry. Maybe they should have worried a bit more.

Anyway, I tend to believe that the difference between commies and nazis is not so much. For them to call anybody a nazi is like calling your brother "brother". It doesn't mean a whole lot.

But commies lie continuosly anyway. If you follow history, or even the news; you could see that. Only a blind man wouldn't.

Quickie, 10-3-21

It may be worth noting that the faction most noted as "progressive" will not vote for the smaller "infrastructure" bill unless the bigger one that they favor is also passed. Everyone knows this, but that is not the main observation here. It is necessary in order to make a contrast between the so-called progressives and the GOP. The GOP won't torpedo the bill if the bigger one IS included. They are content to vote against the bigger one and force it into the so-called reconciliation process.

It is this failure to be more aggressive that I wish to note. The so-called progressives are being more aggressive, but the GOP is merely content with allowing a partisan bill to pass without their votes in the Senate. It is that contrast that is worth noting.

Whenever you see me use the term "conservative" with air-quotes, then this kind of thing is why. To me it is rather pointless to oppose a bill while at the same time you do nothing else to try to defeat it. It isn't good enough. The so-called "progressives", also known as communists on this blog, know how to play this game. The so-called "conservatives" don't seem to be interested in doing anything but APPEARING to oppose the commies. That is why they deserve the doubt expressed here.

If the bill fails altogether, it will only fail because of Democrats. I'd prefer it fail because of the GOP was unified in their opposition to it. The game isn't over, by the way. The GOP shouldn't be putting a "W" in their column just yet.