You must have 15 months, you need 1 full season (1 year) plus 90 days for your first garden to reach a mature harvest. I was a farmer and any less you won’t make it! But you must have seed, canning supplies, tools, and weapons to protect it. When you plant your garden in the spring be sure not to plant until you have four consecutive days and nights above 40 degrees F, double the size of your planned garden after doing the math per person in your group. REMEMBER! Four consecutive days and nights above 40F !
Yeah.. good luck with finding a safe place to store it. I guess a shelter would be the best way. I may need to start an underground storage facility. 😁
5 pairs of leather gloves. Protecting your skin from puncture is the TRUE #1 move when SHTF happens. Hospitals are overran or inaccessible. Gloves gloves gloves!
One pair...learn to make them...Squirrel. ground hog. 4 gi Fingers one in each leg the butthole becomes the thumb. Don't forget. The butthole becomes the thumb 👍
I think I would choose to have a small herd of goats over a dairy cow and a bull for survival. I know we are talking about a year of survival in the video but when an event happens, I do not believe it will come with PSA saying this will only take a year. Redundancy is my first concern, if you lose either cow due to disease or any predators (4- and 2-legged kind,) that resource is gone. With goats you can survive the loss of a few and the herd can still recover. You can also scale up or down the herd as needed if water or available grazing area/feed becomes scarce. Having a small herd gives you the opportunity to barter any excess meat, milk, or the goats themselves if the herd becomes too large. Although, I would only barter if I felt it would not impact the safety and security of my family and homestead. Gestation for a cow is about 280 days to produce a single calf, whereas 150 days for goats with twins being the most common result. Dairy cows produce about 23-26 liters per day and a dairy goat is from 4-15 liters, non-dairy goat breeds produce about 1-2 liters per day. I would ask myself how much milk I need daily and go from there. It seems more work and energy would be required to process and store the meat from the bull. Refrigeration, dehydration, and smoking all require energy and curing with salt takes about 7kg per 226kg of meat from a cow. A goat has around 16-19kg of meat, about 50-60% of the total weight. You can slaughter the goats as needed and if you need to relocate, you can have your food supply walk with you versus carrying it on your back. I also see it as an educational/instructional benefit, the kids might remember dad processing a cow once maybe twice during an event, but processing goats could become a monthly or bi-weekly task to where it might become one of their chores. The kids could also learn about selective breeding where you cull the ones that produce less milk or are smaller when they reach maturity. Other considerations are space and cost, you need about 3 acres of good pasture at a minimum for the pair of cows but 12-16 acres if the land is poor. You can typically raise 6-8 goats per acre on pasture and half the number if they must forage. As for cost, a beef cow averages $5,700 (US dollars) and a lactating dairy cow for $1800, let’s say $7,500 in total for the pair. A goat buck costs around $250 and the in-milk does cost around $150. A buck can support up to 20-40 does, If you start with 2 bucks (for some genetic diversity) at $500 and 16 does for $2,400, you can have a small herd for less than $3,000 grazing on 3 acres of pasture or 6-8 acres of foraging land. Now, for operational security and knowing nobody in my household likes to drink milk, I would skip goats and cows and go with rabbits. Last time I checked all you needed was 1 buck and 3 does to produce enough offspring to provide the protein requirements for one person per year. The rabbit droppings can be added directly to the garden without additional processing, you can send furs to your favorite trapper for processing, and when was the last time you heard of a rabbit giving away your position?
@@gnomenomicon1861 I was going to mention the insanity of recommending cows in my comment, but glad someone else did ;) I agree with you to a degree re: goats, but if you can't stomach the milk and don't have 7' tall fencing, then sheep are a better option for dairy and meat. For just meat, pigs are really easy keepers, and ideal for the beginner as they have little to no health problems :) Rabbits are awesome! We just got into them this year, but they don't reproduce as quickly as many people say. For example, my particular climate is extremely hot during summer and extremely cold during winter; rabbits will not breed in either condition, so at best we can only expect two litters per doe per year.
Sheep are easier than goats for me. We also have chickens (layers and meat) and meat rabbits…New Zealands. Our climate doesn’t get too hot or cold so we raise rabbits year round. One does produces around 280 lbs meat per year. They eat everything humans and chickens don’t. They can be put underground to hide them if need be. They are the quietest animal to raise.
@annesmith1642 until they scream! omg, i attempted the broomstick method once when harvesting, I swear the poor buns nearly blew out my eardrums! I'm going to look into the hopper popper, but until then it's the pellet rifle point-blank to the brain! We have new zealands, a californian doe and two nz/flemish x does and a separate colony of Rex :)
YES. He needs to research more on the animals. Did he mention saving feed for the animals? Especially chickens need grain. What about growing the grain? You can only do so much self sufficiency with a simple mind
I started prepping with a box when I became homeless & realized my life was not going good due to my choices in life. My life , spirit & soul hit rock bottom when my Mother passed @ the age of 50. My lil brother found her dead in the kitchen after school. Angina. My world went upside down, homeless for about 6yr not giving a f. Than my perspective opened. I got help, sobered up, woke up. I learned to let go & accept so I could find a way to the end. I prepped. I have a big house, 2 step children & loving wife. Big truck & all the peeps. I do shotecrete & shoring. 25 yrs in shotecrete now & preps galore, passing it on to the kids. Start with a box & heal your problems. It doesn’t matter what you have if you don’t have your mental health. That is key!
Another important thing to do, is to lead your children to salvation - thru Jesus Christ. So they can be forever with God, hopefully you & your wife will be there to.
@@debracarrabba1656 I don’t understand how taking on God will help, you didn’t explain. I can understand people together may help each other so a religious community may be beneficial, but if people get really desperate it isn’t going to quench the thirst or hunger 😞
God can do anything. God takes care of His people. Read the bible daily. Press in. Seek answers. Faith c0omes from reading the word. Pray. Ask God to teach you.@@robmyers8948
Done. I homeschooled my sons and have been doing this a lot longer than most. Lots of rope. You also need heavy leather gloves, heavy thick pants for foraging through thorn and snake infested areas, lots of heavy blankets and tarps, large sheets of wood in case windows are broken. Tools include a hand drill, different types of axes and wedges, lots of good, high grade buckets. If you have a well you need a hand pump or a special water 'pail' that is tube like and can be used upon removal of the electric pump. You need a lot more salt than you realize for cleanliness and preservation. Knives galore. A hand plow and the best large shovels, post diggers and bark strippers and pruners that you can buy (you may have to go back to the old wattle and daub to make a wall or shelter/barn/outhouse). Washboard and a manual agitator, a meat grinder. Fishing nets, underwater cages that you can bait and trap as you cannot waste all day fishing. Chisels, hammers and stone cutting tools for many projects that would need to be done by hand. Learn how to make your own arrows and you can go so far as to make your own shale tips for spears. Lots of wire to make traps for small creatures like squirrels. Sickles for reaping. Depending on the climate a LOT of wheat seed if you can. Cast iron and a tripod for outdoor cooking. Really helpful to have a lot of stone block and a millstone to make bread. With the stone block you can make a custom stove and even a kiln to suit your needs. LOTS of aluminum foil to make a solar oven (old home satellite dish helps with that). An attic or storeroom for apples. A shed for smoking meat. Spare roofing tile or learn how to thatch. My sons had a blast growing up learning these things.
Store lots of soap. Hand soap in bars. Laundry soap powder or bars. They don't go bad and are a lot better than bleaching everything. You might consider some washable rags for when Nate's toilet pellets run out.
For real though, that is really hard to get our minds around. Every time I think I know, I'm surprised again with how much I'd actually need if it wasn't available anymore. Just the simple things like flour eggs water, I use soooo much😅. I think that's another downside of having everything at the ready in grocery stores. We don't see how much we're using anymore, because most people shop weekly and never stock it up and use it from their pantey. Is something gone /used up? Quick trip to the store, use it again and all the pantries are empty. It made us lose oversight of all we actually need / use on a daily basis. It surely opened my mind how much I really use
@Liesbeth22 we started prepping in Trump's second year after the tax breaks to the wealthy. We knew the economy was going to go into a recession and it would likely cause major problems with the middle East. One of the best things we got was a vacuum sealer. You can fit a t pound bag of sugar or flour in it, seal it and it lasts indefinitely. We started getting rice, beans, and other shelf staple products and vacuum sealed everything. Also picked up 5 gallon buckets from home Depot. Fill with canned foods such as meat, fish, veggies, ect. Only thing not to get is tomato based products in cans. Too acid. But you can do glass jars. Keep doing a little every pay check and you will have enough to whether the storm coming. Also repurposed food grade kitty liter containers for water. Wash them, bleach them, and after a while you have enough water for at least three months. Also used the dehydrator to do veggies like potatoes and then vacuum packed them in mason jars. But just doing a little each pay check pays off.
I agree, but in SHTF a 4 person family will live in a 160 sq ft trailer requiring only propane heat w well water plus solar 12v battery recharge. Freeze dried/dehydrated food is compact. Great point on the rodent control though.
I’ve been following you for quite a few years, and this is by far one of the best videos you put out, You bring the reality of what we need to do to survive!! Thank you, for bringing us all to the reality of this!!
No kidding there are alot going to be looking. First the low live no goods and then the rest of us. There eventually aren't going to be any good guys left!!
Whether it’s Canada or the United States beware of the over friendly neighbor who is stocking up on barbecue sauce. Trust me he’s not gonna use it and hotdogs
I did a deep dive into the caloric content of most commonly stored prepper foods (i.e. beans/rice/pasta) and what I discovered astonished me, as most of the main 3 contain about +/- 250 calories per cup cooked which means that's 10 cups per day alone to get 2500 a day (whew). Jonathan Hollerman in 'Grid Down' has shown you will starve on 1500 calories per day unless completely static. Read the labels on your other prepper foods and plan to supplement or substitute the above to prevent food fatigue and the receive the necessary caloric intake. I've done the same study with most of my prepped foods so I know that feeling full doesn't equate to the requirements your body needs. Hope this info is helpful to others...
Fats! We need fats! Even if we were to take in all the rice per day to meet the caloric needs, we would be depleted because of fats. Besides, always always always look for ways to complete your meals. You can go a fair amount of time on a monotous diet of (in this case) only rice or beans. Our body willtap into our body's pantry and it will start to function differently and you'd have to adapt your activities if you had only rice to eat. But if you also stock up fruit veggies fats meats etc, you won't have a monotonous diet that leaves you depleted of all nutrients. Stock up on vitamin tablets. Make sure you have the good salts with all the minerals in (I can't afford it myself). Even if you failed to stock up enough greens n beans, a few tablets of artificial nutrients may push you through. A calory and a calory is 2 different things. Our food isn't just about calories. Yes that's handy to know. But 1 calory of sugar isn't the same as one calory of a tomato. It's hard for sole people to grasp, but healthy food is way more than just calories. I'd much prefer a lower calory intake but rich in fats and nutrients compared to all of the required calory intake but it wqs only rice
Like eggs, peanut butter, oils, ghee, tallow, lard,... there are fats that store for a while. If hunting or fishing, don't throw it away -- fat, brain, skin, etc.
@@espirit8420 calories are not what's important, nutrition is. and considering that we process plant foods extremely poorly, if at all, it's best to skip stocking up on them altogether and focus on just meats and fats! I only eat once a day, and it's about a cup of muscle meat or four eggs with grated cheese. I'm constantly on the go, which includes a lot of hard manual labour, with the exception of my hourly cigarette breaks. I don't suffer any fatigue nor ill health ;)
Great info, thanks! Note for folks who bake bread, you're going to use way more than 20kg per person per year. And don't forget your year's supply of yeast or similar.
This is one of my favorite videos you've put out you covered so many bases. I appreciate the homesteading part as well. For water I suggest putting in a sand point well and a good filter if thats an option for anyone, it eliminates storage and power issues.
This is by far the best “intro to prepping” video out there imo. It is so overwhelming for the average Joe to estimate all of this and this video does it perfectly.
Great video, I’ve got a few of those 275 gallon tanks, they can stack up to two on top of each other and with that being said I prefer them to the 55 gallon barrels for easy storage with little diy set up , just don’t plan on moving them once they are filled, surprisingly easy to move empty even with the galvanized steel cage. Water is heavy even the 55 gallon drums are around 500 lbs. I lucked out and found a local vendor who sold the 275 gallon tanks used to me that had previously been used to store a soda sweetener of sorts.
While this is a great list of supplies, I think it's essential to also prioritize skills. Survival skills like foraging, hunting, and first aid are almost as important as having a well-stocked pantry
From a "techniques" perspective: ensure you keep yourself dry and have a system to get dry if you get wet. Foot powder, quick drying towels, wet weather gear, rubber over-boots for your boots, pack covers, etc. It becomes very hard to do what you need to do when you're soaked through. I learned this quickly in the Army.
Another great vid Nate. Glad to see your health has returned. Keep up the invaluable info vids. It helps us long term preppers identify missing links in our SHTF plans. Bullets & guns are easy, Water, fuel & medical is where the rubber hits the road.
Growing up in rural Lafayette Indiana, about half my friends lived on farms. Mostly acreages with corn and soy and either pigs or cows. I lived in the college town, so visiting my friends was the best. Loved the ATVs and the barns were just FAN-TAS-TIC! I could spend days poking thru a good barn on a working farm, especially if it was GRANDPA’s old barn. Not “preppers,” but they could handle any calamity so long as the barn and its unique of accumulation of contents of survived. Haha-an old barn has its own, unique biome based on the farm’s operations and geographic location. Old Grandpa loved his barn and he could make magical things from it, like a go-kart (entirely manual and entirely downhill and entirely too fast and entirely too low to the pavement) and a lovingly detailed doll house. And then I wonder if those farms and barns and families around Lafayette, IN are still there or are they nearing extinction. Like some kind of neo-Amish outliers, those few family farmers still around since way before the 1970s. I feel inspired to learn how to take over a family farm and look for the right one ready to hand off. How romantic! My dog, is excited about having geese and ducks to chase. Realistically, I’d probably not be that inspired to continue the family farm tradition-but, I might just overpay for a set-up if it’s got a magnificent, stately, century-and-a-half, big red barn that’s completely developed a deep and rich biome of barn stuff. 💕
However much you prep, however much you store, it will never be enough. Unforeseen circumstances will arise and the world will revert to 'the road' very quickly. Most people have noithing ready, you will stand out because you aren't starving to death, probably thinner but definitely not dead! You'll become a target, at night, for gangs of younger, stronger people who have no moral compass, this wont take long. I live in the uk, we have no guns so you have to use what's available, i am on the coast so fishing is possible, i live near the countryside but on the edge of a town, lots of farms and sheep nearby, still lots of people, the sheep will disappear quickly! My neighbours are useless, so dangerous when it falls apart, we might have rolling blackouts this winter, most people here have never experienced a world with no power so will go crazy very fast. I expect crime to go up the minute the power goes off, house invasion on the first night because no police, people will take advantage, it will be worse than the purge, realise people are like chimps with bigger brains plus selfish and entitled and you have an approximation of what you're dealing with.
For self defence google Paul Chen katana and wakisashi, and Cold Steel cutlass or light cavalry saber. When I lived in the UK before migrating to the Philippines, I changed all my ground floor windows to laminated glass.
My heart goes out to you, if I were you I'd feel hopeless and defenseless. You're right about prepping around other humans, it will help at first but when people get desperate later on you will be in trouble. I'm in Canada, working on building up my off grid property i purchased recently, very sparsely populated up here on the Bruce Peninsula, lots of deer and grouse and fish in local lakes, my property is 1km deep of forest to hunt and forage and garden. I have a 12 gauge shotty, a Sterling Arms R18 MK2 semi auto in 5.56/223, .308 hunting rifle and three .22 LR semi auto 10/22's (one for each of my boys and one for me) and 4 air/pellet rifles for small game like birds and rabbits. We have thousands of rounds of ammo for the 22's and about 1000 .308 rounds. I'm moderately confident in our SHTF survival chances. If I was in the UK.... I'd be a nervous wreck.
You mentioned mercury poisoning . Albacore has the least amount of Mercury . Also if you drink green tea as you eat tuna your body will be able to metabolize the Mercury . It compounds different in your digestive system . Also I keep botulism and salmonella test strips with my food Supply .
Oh waauw! Now that is interesting! May I ask, where did you find this information? (Yes, I can google but google often spits up nonsenses as well and I'd actually like to look into this. I'm not a fzn of green tea but I do like seafood). Thank you for sharing!
We have a 8ft wide by 22 ft long garden in the city plus 10-55 gallon drums cut in half equaling 20 large planting 1/2 drums and 6 potato bags and other pots for herbs and I feel we still don’t have enough. Also a large apple tree which provides really nice size apples bigger than my fist. Water could be a potential problem in the city and there’s no room for a large pool either. Obviously we’re not as prepared as Nate dog🐕but I’d say we’re further ahead than most in the city. We want to get out of the city but that’s a few years away yet.
The most important advice ever And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. 17“And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ 18“Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19‘And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ 21“So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
It may sound ridiculous, but I feel like God has let me know I cannot be selfish. Whatever I try to grow with the intent of sharing, certainly does better than what I try to keep for myself. Besides, we should always have been sharing the riches of the earth. It was never intended for one person to hold on to.
Thank you for this Nate. I find it easy to get bogged down in the "eaches" and lose the lorger perspective. Vids like this help bring me back to focus. I would also reiterate strongly your point that this is for only one person....a family of 4 or a MAG will require a warehouse. there also are storage limitations on some tings (fats for example) but most can be substituted (eg for fats, use lard or tallow)
Hello Fernando. Teslas have a manual lever, at each door, that opens the doors as a fail safe. I have a Tesla (in addition to a Toyota truck) and can confirm that these levers function flawlessly. Thank you for all the videos, and 2 books. I have been following your content for years, and appreciate your no nonsense perspective. Be well!
Yeah being a teenager in the apocalypse is going to be rough. I have three dogs. I can only imagine having three or more kids. People are going to get desperate fast.
This was a very informative video and I need to watch it again just to get everything down. I am going to pass it on to my friends as well. I have a small group that we work together in prepping and each of is doing different tasks but all are a little of the others as well. I have been mainly task with medical supplies. I am really glad I watched this. Thanks Nate for taking the time.
Im a medical student and I will say that if you’re storing antibiotics just be aware that antibiotics and vaccines are regularly updated because pathogens get resistance to them. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good idea to store antibiotics, but the most important thing is hygiene and good diet. I would argue it’s better to store more water for cleaning and diversify food for a better diet. Or just do both.
Just started watching but don't forget your garden supplies ie long storying crops bean pees corn squash I know you need more but it's something, Adding maybe wheat berries should be able to plant them along with dried beans from store if no to old
What's so fucked is almost every remotely populated area any ponds, lakes and creeks are so polluted it would be damn hard to filter it good enough. After a year of drinking that you're going to have a shit load of health issues.
Water, especially with chemicals, you want to use distillation. A still generally uses a fire source, but with the solar oven technology you should be able to set up one -- parabolic mirror or a solar oven style. The hole in the ground emergency method will not produce enough. Don't boil dry.
@theoldguy9329 yeah the heavier compounds will stay behind in the leftover water. I understand the concept, but producing enough would be extremely energy consuming not to mention time consuming. Smoke production etc. It's just the amount needed for multiple people is problematic.
Firewood requires a lot of energy to cut, split, use. A used oil burner, heater/cooker in SHTF. There will lots an abandon cars as a source of fuel. Lots of simple how to build your own here on You Tub.
I just do animal fat and protein, no Carbs and i do extremely well. Found i dont need near the amount of water this way either. Never any vegetable oils ever. I can go days without eating and have perfect energy in the mean time.
Save lard or tallow. Good for frying not so goox on salads. Ghee keeps for quite a while. All keep longer than seed oil. However, if SHTF your life expectancy is likely not shortened by the seed oils.
This preparation is always good all the time. You don't need to wait the end of the civilization to find out that you need to store commodity demonstrated in the video. To combat inflation and price gauging, is crucial to store a maximum of goods and be self-sufficient like out great grand parent.
Yeah the water thing is pretty accurate. I've got two of those and with rain filling the tanks up when it rains i don't run out of water. For gardens you need a massive water supply or grow a garden that doesn't require huge emounts of water. Mulch and shade cloth goes a long way.
Just stocked up 100L of water. Current situation doesn't permit much more but I have pool shock and a nearby creek. I don't think you'd need more than 1kg of coffee, 15kg is bonkers.
Choja-fantastic Mexican Cactus,will stop everybody,period,even catch a rats,so you can have some protein and will taste soo good,if you did not eat for weeks
Thanks for this video Nate! There are many reminders. Annoying for me and my daughter is that 1 we live in an apartment and 2 my budget is not very big. I'll keep doing my best...
Yo, I think it would be a cool idea if you did a video illustrating alternatives to building autonomy and self reliance in the context of intentional communities. Shifting the narrative of this hyper individualism we see dominating “prepper communities” and offering a clear vision of what community can look like if people are practicing mutual aid and support, policing themselves, and having an organizational model that is decentralized but still meets the needs of the people in said communities.
Most of us here are prepping, but most if us will never achieve that level. We hope, we wish, we try but the obstacles are hugh. The financial obstacle and the uncoperative relatives are two of the biggest obstacles. I think we ahould all plan on meering Canadian Prepper at his place with Goodies and create a stock pile and setup up camp and guard the perimeter.. What do you say CP? Want some company? Its going to take aome serious fire power to protect that place!
This list is why 90% will not make it. If you do have it, you’re not bugging out with more than a few percent of it, and if you can’t defend it at home you’re not keeping it. It’s not a good situation for anyone no matter how prepared you are.
That was a great video, my wife loves to shop and get extra of every thing, example is that we have so much laundry detergent that we will not need to buy any for 10 years. My point is when shopping buy one extra of what you are shopping for and you will be surprised on how well you will be when something happens.
I'm SO going to hate my survival diet. I've been carnivore for over a year now, and my ability to keep muscle mass up and stay lean so effortlessly, and to not have sugar cravings, is something I can't imagine leaving ever again. Going back to "any" carbs. much less "many" carbs, is frightening to me. I'm just a few years away from being a "senior citizen", carnivore has dropped a couple decades off me, I can't imagine going back. It's gonna suck.
Highly recommend doing a video on biogas for a shtf situation. I think that it would really come in handy knowing that you could use your food scraps to give you propane essentially indefinitely. And then if you use propane generators, you can augment the need for batteries. Great video!
@ if that’s the way you want to gauge that by have at it🤣 preppers stockpile everything so why not ammo too? Nate’s ammo numbers are no where near enough. Ammo will also have high trade value too
@ there’s always something with people like you calling people names🤣 and trying to paint a bad picture of what you think of gun owners as war mongers.
good thing you mentioned that, I think I am short on the eatable oil ...on a side note "Fels-Naptha" laundry soap bars, can pull double duty, my dad used to cut the bars up for sink use...not gucci, but usable
You need to rotate stocks of underwear annually, and anything with elastic. You don't want to have your new underwear falling inside of your baggy pants because the elastic broke down 😂 .
Start out prepping for 3 days, then a month, then 6 months, etc. Most disasters are short term so you will get the most out of prepping by starting small. Think of it as minimal insurance coverage. You don't need that expensive policy unless the situation demands it. Great video for the expert prepper, but we want the average Joe to prep as much as possible.
There are a few comments about blending in, protecting your stash etc. If we get to a SHTF situation getting away from other people will be priority #1 and surrounding yourself with others who are prepared. After 3-4 months, there won’t be so many left if it really is bad.
Kinda bummed that CP didn't actually show us what all those KG's of different foods really looked like. I was totally expecting him to do a video in front of a massive pile of food.
Previously I managed a consumer products testing laboratory. The breakdown of household power was about 1/3 for heating and cooling, 1/3 for hot water, of the last 1/3 about 1/3 of it was refrigeration, 1/3 lighting and the last third was everything else.
Glad to see you back to making informative material AGAIN... I've HAD some difficulty on HOW MUCH & WHAT to stock up on food wise. I've ONLY stocked up WHAT I or my dog (s) WILL definitely eat. NO wasting time or space. I'm a 'meat & taters' guy BUT I've stocked up some veggies. I'm in the city , living in a apt. SO, growing food etc. isn't a option currently. I've BEEN stocking up on canned goods , MREs & other non-perishables. AND a shit ton of cases of water. I won't even say HOW MUCH I've GOT stored. I'd LIKE to GET some of those tanks you mentioned. I'm working on GETTING one of those water filtration systems you've mentioned. I ALREADY plan on having to boil & filter/cleaning water from nature. I'm pretty much on it far as what you've said here. Since it's JUST me & the furry ones I think I've GOT it covered pretty well. Thx for the other ideas etc. Nate!!!
3 gallons per day us a lot of water. Try practicing taking a bath with a pint of water a Hand bath towel with a soap bar. 1 pint of water to rinse. Bring back the two compartment tent for poop in one and shower in the other.
Why do you not have an inverter generator charging your power pack? Charge with solar. When you run out of sun, run the inverter generator to charge the pack up to 85%. I think EcoFlow even has a genie for this setup as an accessory.
Got my well(s), am changing over to all deasle and enlarging my ponds that have fish . Also putting crayfish in them . Already have a good flock of chickens. But want to diversify because chickens are so susceptible to diseases. So thinking rabbits and pigs. So I've got a good start. Filtering system is next.
I believe you have underestimated the number of chickens. We raised chickens for meat and four eggs. You will need two chickens for one egg you would like to eat per day. You will also need one additional chicken because sometimes chickens die. Your first year you will get an egg six days a week from each chicken. By year five, the chickens will lay nearly zero eggs per week. Most people replaced 1/3 of their flock each spring. This is because chickens molt in the winter and stop laying eggs. But they will lay eggs, their first year before molting. We raise 30 meat chickens each summer. This allows a couple to die, a couple to be given away to those who help process the chickens. And it will give us 26 freezer chickens. That’s one rotisserie chicken every other week. I would need to increase these numbers if I wasn’t eating out.
Sanitary pads and diapers can also double as medical supplies..particularly for stopping bleeding...I have two old school light delivery vans..Nissan 1400...reliable and basic...tough non electronic...one is kept in tip top condition and is my daily vehicle...the other is kept in a good running condition but not perfect...the idea is that one becomes spare parts if need be..
We are at 36 months right now, something are harder to stock but with some careful planning and thinking outside the box it do able and easily scaled up to 3, 4, and moor people.
You must have 15 months, you need 1 full season (1 year) plus 90 days for your first garden to reach a mature harvest. I was a farmer and any less you won’t make it! But you must have seed, canning supplies, tools, and weapons to protect it. When you plant your garden in the spring be sure not to plant until you have four consecutive days and nights above 40 degrees F, double the size of your planned garden after doing the math per person in your group. REMEMBER! Four consecutive days and nights above 40F !
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Thank you!
Yeah.. good luck with finding a safe place to store it. I guess a shelter would be the best way. I may need to start an underground storage facility. 😁
@@TK-tt7jm "I may need to start an underground storage facility. 😁"
Root Cellars are a good option.
In Colorado, that's may 31st 🤦
5 pairs of leather gloves. Protecting your skin from puncture is the TRUE #1 move when SHTF happens. Hospitals are overran or inaccessible. Gloves gloves gloves!
And a few extra pairs of boots. So important
If you can't do work without gloves then you ain't going to make it a month anyway
One pair...learn to make them...Squirrel. ground hog. 4 gi
Fingers one in each leg the butthole becomes the thumb. Don't forget. The butthole becomes the thumb 👍
@@childofthekingjesusmylord8715 that's ridiculous. You aren't the bionic man lol
@@chelsear5835 That's actually a good idea. The butthole becomes the thumb 💡
I think I would choose to have a small herd of goats over a dairy cow and a bull for survival. I know we are talking about a year of survival in the video but when an event happens, I do not believe it will come with PSA saying this will only take a year.
Redundancy is my first concern, if you lose either cow due to disease or any predators (4- and 2-legged kind,) that resource is gone. With goats you can survive the loss of a few and the herd can still recover. You can also scale up or down the herd as needed if water or available grazing area/feed becomes scarce. Having a small herd gives you the opportunity to barter any excess meat, milk, or the goats themselves if the herd becomes too large. Although, I would only barter if I felt it would not impact the safety and security of my family and homestead.
Gestation for a cow is about 280 days to produce a single calf, whereas 150 days for goats with twins being the most common result. Dairy cows produce about 23-26 liters per day and a dairy goat is from 4-15 liters, non-dairy goat breeds produce about 1-2 liters per day. I would ask myself how much milk I need daily and go from there.
It seems more work and energy would be required to process and store the meat from the bull. Refrigeration, dehydration, and smoking all require energy and curing with salt takes about 7kg per 226kg of meat from a cow. A goat has around 16-19kg of meat, about 50-60% of the total weight. You can slaughter the goats as needed and if you need to relocate, you can have your food supply walk with you versus carrying it on your back. I also see it as an educational/instructional benefit, the kids might remember dad processing a cow once maybe twice during an event, but processing goats could become a monthly or bi-weekly task to where it might become one of their chores. The kids could also learn about selective breeding where you cull the ones that produce less milk or are smaller when they reach maturity.
Other considerations are space and cost, you need about 3 acres of good pasture at a minimum for the pair of cows but 12-16 acres if the land is poor. You can typically raise 6-8 goats per acre on pasture and half the number if they must forage. As for cost, a beef cow averages $5,700 (US dollars) and a lactating dairy cow for $1800, let’s say $7,500 in total for the pair. A goat buck costs around $250 and the in-milk does cost around $150. A buck can support up to 20-40 does, If you start with 2 bucks (for some genetic diversity) at $500 and 16 does for $2,400, you can have a small herd for less than $3,000 grazing on 3 acres of pasture or 6-8 acres of foraging land.
Now, for operational security and knowing nobody in my household likes to drink milk, I would skip goats and cows and go with rabbits. Last time I checked all you needed was 1 buck and 3 does to produce enough offspring to provide the protein requirements for one person per year. The rabbit droppings can be added directly to the garden without additional processing, you can send furs to your favorite trapper for processing, and when was the last time you heard of a rabbit giving away your position?
@@gnomenomicon1861 I was going to mention the insanity of recommending cows in my comment, but glad someone else did ;) I agree with you to a degree re: goats, but if you can't stomach the milk and don't have 7' tall fencing, then sheep are a better option for dairy and meat. For just meat, pigs are really easy keepers, and ideal for the beginner as they have little to no health problems :)
Rabbits are awesome! We just got into them this year, but they don't reproduce as quickly as many people say. For example, my particular climate is extremely hot during summer and extremely cold during winter; rabbits will not breed in either condition, so at best we can only expect two litters per doe per year.
Sheep are easier than goats for me. We also have chickens (layers and meat) and meat rabbits…New Zealands. Our climate doesn’t get too hot or cold so we raise rabbits year round. One does produces around 280 lbs meat per year. They eat everything humans and chickens don’t. They can be put underground to hide them if need be. They are the quietest animal to raise.
@annesmith1642 until they scream! omg, i attempted the broomstick method once when harvesting, I swear the poor buns nearly blew out my eardrums! I'm going to look into the hopper popper, but until then it's the pellet rifle point-blank to the brain!
We have new zealands, a californian doe and two nz/flemish x does and a separate colony of Rex :)
Monety python and the holy grail, be careful with rabbits 😂😂😅
YES. He needs to research more on the animals. Did he mention saving feed for the animals? Especially chickens need grain. What about growing the grain? You can only do so much self sufficiency with a simple mind
I started prepping with a box when I became homeless & realized my life was not going good due to my choices in life. My life , spirit & soul hit rock bottom when my Mother passed @ the age of 50. My lil brother found her dead in the kitchen after school. Angina. My world went upside down, homeless for about 6yr not giving a f. Than my perspective opened. I got help, sobered up, woke up. I learned to let go & accept so I could find a way to the end. I prepped. I have a big house, 2 step children & loving wife. Big truck & all the peeps. I do shotecrete & shoring. 25 yrs in shotecrete now & preps galore, passing it on to the kids. Start with a box & heal your problems. It doesn’t matter what you have if you don’t have your mental health. That is key!
Another important thing to do, is to lead your children to salvation - thru Jesus Christ. So they can be forever with God, hopefully you & your wife will be there to.
@@debracarrabba1656 I don’t understand how taking on God will help, you didn’t explain. I can understand people together may help each other so a religious community may be beneficial, but if people get really desperate it isn’t going to quench the thirst or hunger 😞
Thank you for sharing this story. All best wishes.
God can do anything. God takes care of His people.
Read the bible daily. Press in. Seek answers. Faith c0omes from reading the word. Pray. Ask God to teach you.@@robmyers8948
@robmyers8948 peace of mind knowing your forever will be with the Lord . Explained
Done. I homeschooled my sons and have been doing this a lot longer than most. Lots of rope. You also need heavy leather gloves, heavy thick pants for foraging through thorn and snake infested areas, lots of heavy blankets and tarps, large sheets of wood in case windows are broken. Tools include a hand drill, different types of axes and wedges, lots of good, high grade buckets. If you have a well you need a hand pump or a special water 'pail' that is tube like and can be used upon removal of the electric pump. You need a lot more salt than you realize for cleanliness and preservation. Knives galore. A hand plow and the best large shovels, post diggers and bark strippers and pruners that you can buy (you may have to go back to the old wattle and daub to make a wall or shelter/barn/outhouse). Washboard and a manual agitator, a meat grinder. Fishing nets, underwater cages that you can bait and trap as you cannot waste all day fishing. Chisels, hammers and stone cutting tools for many projects that would need to be done by hand. Learn how to make your own arrows and you can go so far as to make your own shale tips for spears. Lots of wire to make traps for small creatures like squirrels. Sickles for reaping. Depending on the climate a LOT of wheat seed if you can. Cast iron and a tripod for outdoor cooking. Really helpful to have a lot of stone block and a millstone to make bread. With the stone block you can make a custom stove and even a kiln to suit your needs. LOTS of aluminum foil to make a solar oven (old home satellite dish helps with that). An attic or storeroom for apples. A shed for smoking meat. Spare roofing tile or learn how to thatch. My sons had a blast growing up learning these things.
It's so obvious you guys have no idea what is coming....😢
I am guessing you still have stellar wifi though !!?!!!
@@petemilecmilec1782what's coming
All of my water is freeze dried.
Water is gold ✨
Agree
Store lots of soap. Hand soap in bars. Laundry soap powder or bars. They don't go bad and are a lot better than bleaching everything. You might consider some washable rags for when Nate's toilet pellets run out.
This is just per person. Most people don't understand how much it will take when the power goes out.
For real though, that is really hard to get our minds around.
Every time I think I know, I'm surprised again with how much I'd actually need if it wasn't available anymore.
Just the simple things like flour eggs water, I use soooo much😅.
I think that's another downside of having everything at the ready in grocery stores.
We don't see how much we're using anymore, because most people shop weekly and never stock it up and use it from their pantey.
Is something gone /used up? Quick trip to the store, use it again and all the pantries are empty.
It made us lose oversight of all we actually need / use on a daily basis.
It surely opened my mind how much I really use
@Liesbeth22 we started prepping in Trump's second year after the tax breaks to the wealthy. We knew the economy was going to go into a recession and it would likely cause major problems with the middle East. One of the best things we got was a vacuum sealer. You can fit a t pound bag of sugar or flour in it, seal it and it lasts indefinitely. We started getting rice, beans, and other shelf staple products and vacuum sealed everything. Also picked up 5 gallon buckets from home Depot. Fill with canned foods such as meat, fish, veggies, ect. Only thing not to get is tomato based products in cans. Too acid. But you can do glass jars. Keep doing a little every pay check and you will have enough to whether the storm coming. Also repurposed food grade kitty liter containers for water. Wash them, bleach them, and after a while you have enough water for at least three months. Also used the dehydrator to do veggies like potatoes and then vacuum packed them in mason jars. But just doing a little each pay check pays off.
I agree, but in SHTF a 4 person family will live in a 160 sq ft trailer requiring only propane heat w well water plus solar 12v battery recharge. Freeze dried/dehydrated food is compact. Great point on the rodent control though.
And probably won't get 3 squares a day or fancy 10 ingredient dishes
Broken record nates video.
Same as about 10 others he has done
I’ve been following you for quite a few years, and this is by far one of the best videos you put out, You bring the reality of what we need to do to survive!! Thank you, for bringing us all to the reality of this!!
I have 70days worth of coffee … after that everyone is in trouble b/c I’m coming outside looking 😂
I set aside 50 lbs. Sounds like I need more lol
No kidding there are alot going to be looking. First the low live no goods and then the rest of us. There eventually aren't going to be any good guys left!!
💯 realest comment award. 🏆
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In your search of Coffey beans you'll get led beans 😅
I miss theses kind of videos from you
Whether it’s Canada or the United States beware of the over friendly neighbor who is stocking up on barbecue sauce. Trust me he’s not gonna use it and hotdogs
My neighbours love my baking but hate when I measure them for the rendering pot.
I have bbq sauce just in case
Only a psycho would put bbq sauce on a hotdog
Hi Nate. Very useful analysis and comprehensive listing which hopefully will help prepers to survive. Thanks for all your work.
I did a deep dive into the caloric content of most commonly stored prepper foods (i.e. beans/rice/pasta) and what I discovered astonished me,
as most of the main 3 contain about +/- 250 calories per cup cooked which means that's 10 cups per day alone to get 2500 a day (whew).
Jonathan Hollerman in 'Grid Down' has shown you will starve on 1500 calories per day unless completely static. Read the labels on your other
prepper foods and plan to supplement or substitute the above to prevent food fatigue and the receive the necessary caloric intake.
I've done the same study with most of my prepped foods so I know that feeling full doesn't equate to the requirements your body needs.
Hope this info is helpful to others...
Fats!
We need fats!
Even if we were to take in all the rice per day to meet the caloric needs, we would be depleted because of fats.
Besides, always always always look for ways to complete your meals.
You can go a fair amount of time on a monotous diet of (in this case) only rice or beans.
Our body willtap into our body's pantry and it will start to function differently and you'd have to adapt your activities if you had only rice to eat.
But if you also stock up fruit veggies fats meats etc, you won't have a monotonous diet that leaves you depleted of all nutrients.
Stock up on vitamin tablets.
Make sure you have the good salts with all the minerals in (I can't afford it myself).
Even if you failed to stock up enough greens n beans, a few tablets of artificial nutrients may push you through.
A calory and a calory is 2 different things.
Our food isn't just about calories.
Yes that's handy to know.
But 1 calory of sugar isn't the same as one calory of a tomato.
It's hard for sole people to grasp, but healthy food is way more than just calories.
I'd much prefer a lower calory intake but rich in fats and nutrients compared to all of the required calory intake but it wqs only rice
Like eggs, peanut butter, oils, ghee, tallow, lard,... there are fats that store for a while. If hunting or fishing, don't throw it away -- fat, brain, skin, etc.
@@espirit8420 calories are not what's important, nutrition is. and considering that we process plant foods extremely poorly, if at all, it's best to skip stocking up on them altogether and focus on just meats and fats! I only eat once a day, and it's about a cup of muscle meat or four eggs with grated cheese. I'm constantly on the go, which includes a lot of hard manual labour, with the exception of my hourly cigarette breaks. I don't suffer any fatigue nor ill health ;)
Great info, thanks! Note for folks who bake bread, you're going to use way more than 20kg per person per year. And don't forget your year's supply of yeast or similar.
This is one of my favorite videos you've put out you covered so many bases. I appreciate the homesteading part as well. For water I suggest putting in a sand point well and a good filter if thats an option for anyone, it eliminates storage and power issues.
I agree with most of your points. However, I think it's important to consider the psychological impact of a long-term survival situation.
So have a psychologist in your group? /sarc
The strong survive
That would be a different video.
This is by far the best “intro to prepping” video out there imo. It is so overwhelming for the average Joe to estimate all of this and this video does it perfectly.
Great video, I’ve got a few of those 275 gallon tanks, they can stack up to two on top of each other and with that being said I prefer them to the 55 gallon barrels for easy storage with little diy set up , just don’t plan on moving them once they are filled, surprisingly easy to move empty even with the galvanized steel cage. Water is heavy even the 55 gallon drums are around 500 lbs. I lucked out and found a local vendor who sold the 275 gallon tanks used to me that had previously been used to store a soda sweetener of sorts.
While this is a great list of supplies, I think it's essential to also prioritize skills. Survival skills like foraging, hunting, and first aid are almost as important as having a well-stocked pantry
Not a whole lot to forage and hunt in Winnipeg. Blessings and Joy from the Book of Rangoona.😇🥰❤🩹❤👍
Foraging depends on where you are and it’s a bad idea to rely on foraging
Not much to forage or hunt in Phoenix, unless I hit up the farms, plant nurseries and the zoos and aquariums 😅
Well if you have been following for the last almost 10 years now you can easily find a vid on all those things and more.
@@sammylynn7281PHX sucks. All you have to do is head 2 hours north and your good though
From a "techniques" perspective: ensure you keep yourself dry and have a system to get dry if you get wet. Foot powder, quick drying towels, wet weather gear, rubber over-boots for your boots, pack covers, etc. It becomes very hard to do what you need to do when you're soaked through. I learned this quickly in the Army.
We had a massive power outage here in S. California over 12 years ago. A policeman told me there were fistfights in the grocery stores within 2 hours.
Another great vid Nate. Glad to see your health has returned. Keep up the invaluable info vids. It helps us long term preppers identify missing links in our SHTF plans. Bullets & guns are easy, Water, fuel & medical is where the rubber hits the road.
Growing up in rural Lafayette Indiana, about half my friends lived on farms. Mostly acreages with corn and soy and either pigs or cows. I lived in the college town, so visiting my friends was the best. Loved the ATVs and the barns were just FAN-TAS-TIC! I could spend days poking thru a good barn on a working farm, especially if it was GRANDPA’s old barn. Not “preppers,” but they could handle any calamity so long as the barn and its unique of accumulation of contents of survived. Haha-an old barn has its own, unique biome based on the farm’s operations and geographic location. Old Grandpa loved his barn and he could make magical things from it, like a go-kart (entirely manual and entirely downhill and entirely too fast and entirely too low to the pavement) and a lovingly detailed doll house. And then I wonder if those farms and barns and families around Lafayette, IN are still there or are they nearing extinction. Like some kind of neo-Amish outliers, those few family farmers still around since way before the 1970s. I feel inspired to learn how to take over a family farm and look for the right one ready to hand off. How romantic! My dog, is excited about having geese and ducks to chase. Realistically, I’d probably not be that inspired to continue the family farm tradition-but, I might just overpay for a set-up if it’s got a magnificent, stately, century-and-a-half, big red barn that’s completely developed a deep and rich biome of barn stuff. 💕
They are still here and thriving. The barn was truly a place where McGyvers dreams were made
However much you prep, however much you store, it will never be enough. Unforeseen circumstances will arise and the world will revert to 'the road' very quickly. Most people have noithing ready, you will stand out because you aren't starving to death, probably thinner but definitely not dead! You'll become a target, at night, for gangs of younger, stronger people who have no moral compass, this wont take long. I live in the uk, we have no guns so you have to use what's available, i am on the coast so fishing is possible, i live near the countryside but on the edge of a town, lots of farms and sheep nearby, still lots of people, the sheep will disappear quickly! My neighbours are useless, so dangerous when it falls apart, we might have rolling blackouts this winter, most people here have never experienced a world with no power so will go crazy very fast. I expect crime to go up the minute the power goes off, house invasion on the first night because no police, people will take advantage, it will be worse than the purge, realise people are like chimps with bigger brains plus selfish and entitled and you have an approximation of what you're dealing with.
For self defence google Paul Chen katana and wakisashi, and Cold Steel cutlass or light cavalry saber.
When I lived in the UK before migrating to the Philippines, I changed all my ground floor windows to laminated glass.
My heart goes out to you, if I were you I'd feel hopeless and defenseless. You're right about prepping around other humans, it will help at first but when people get desperate later on you will be in trouble.
I'm in Canada, working on building up my off grid property i purchased recently, very sparsely populated up here on the Bruce Peninsula, lots of deer and grouse and fish in local lakes, my property is 1km deep of forest to hunt and forage and garden. I have a 12 gauge shotty, a Sterling Arms R18 MK2 semi auto in 5.56/223, .308 hunting rifle and three .22 LR semi auto 10/22's (one for each of my boys and one for me) and 4 air/pellet rifles for small game like birds and rabbits. We have thousands of rounds of ammo for the 22's and about 1000 .308 rounds.
I'm moderately confident in our SHTF survival chances. If I was in the UK.... I'd be a nervous wreck.
You mentioned mercury poisoning . Albacore has the least amount of Mercury . Also if you drink green tea as you eat tuna your body will be able to metabolize the Mercury . It compounds different in your digestive system . Also I keep botulism and salmonella test strips with my food Supply .
Oh waauw! Now that is interesting!
May I ask, where did you find this information?
(Yes, I can google but google often spits up nonsenses as well and I'd actually like to look into this. I'm not a fzn of green tea but I do like seafood).
Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely the most important message you could send! I am forwarding it to everyone!!!
We have a 8ft wide by 22 ft long garden in the city plus 10-55 gallon drums cut in half equaling 20 large planting 1/2 drums and 6 potato bags and other pots for herbs and I feel we still don’t have enough. Also a large apple tree which provides really nice size apples bigger than my fist. Water could be a potential problem in the city and there’s no room for a large pool either. Obviously we’re not as prepared as Nate dog🐕but I’d say we’re further ahead than most in the city. We want to get out of the city but that’s a few years away yet.
The most important advice ever
And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. 17“And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ 18“Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19‘And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ 20“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ 21“So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Thanks for the like. I forgot to mention this in Luke 12:16-21 ✝️
It may sound ridiculous, but I feel like God has let me know I cannot be selfish.
Whatever I try to grow with the intent of sharing, certainly does better than what I try to keep for myself.
Besides, we should always have been sharing the riches of the earth.
It was never intended for one person to hold on to.
Or a huge flood and fire will take it all away. We cannot control the weather until we give up carbon based energy.
Thank You Nate For Breaking it all for us. I Appreciate You Very Much!!!❤
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One of the best prepping videos I have seen recently
Thank you for this Nate. I find it easy to get bogged down in the "eaches" and lose the lorger perspective. Vids like this help bring me back to focus. I would also reiterate strongly your point that this is for only one person....a family of 4 or a MAG will require a warehouse. there also are storage limitations on some tings (fats for example) but most can be substituted (eg for fats, use lard or tallow)
Hello Fernando. Teslas have a manual lever, at each door, that opens the doors as a fail safe. I have a Tesla (in addition to a Toyota truck) and can confirm that these levers function flawlessly. Thank you for all the videos, and 2 books. I have been following your content for years, and appreciate your no nonsense perspective. Be well!
Imagine multiplying all this to account for families with children, especially teenagers who have voracious appetites.
Whoa !!
Yeah being a teenager in the apocalypse is going to be rough. I have three dogs. I can only imagine having three or more kids. People are going to get desperate fast.
bro really came at my homie cotton what did cotton ever do to you? It's had my back for years!
This was a very informative video and I need to watch it again just to get everything down. I am going to pass it on to my friends as well. I have a small group that we work together in prepping and each of is doing different tasks but all are a little of the others as well. I have been mainly task with medical supplies. I am really glad I watched this. Thanks Nate for taking the time.
Im a medical student and I will say that if you’re storing antibiotics just be aware that antibiotics and vaccines are regularly updated because pathogens get resistance to them. Don’t get me wrong it’s a good idea to store antibiotics, but the most important thing is hygiene and good diet. I would argue it’s better to store more water for cleaning and diversify food for a better diet. Or just do both.
Fire Mayorkis!
I don't like zipper pants because buttons are easy to replace with a minimal sewing kit
I have 5 years of denture glue and hemmroid cream ! I am all set! 😂😂😂
My commendation for your preps. Now be cautious not to confuse the two.
@@rondent6875 I like your thinking!🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣
Just started watching but don't forget your garden supplies ie long storying crops bean pees corn squash I know you need more but it's something, Adding maybe wheat berries should be able to plant them along with dried beans from store if no to old
WOW! ...I'm going to have to review and take notes... Thanks for the breakdown, Nate 😁
What's so fucked is almost every remotely populated area any ponds, lakes and creeks are so polluted it would be damn hard to filter it good enough. After a year of drinking that you're going to have a shit load of health issues.
Water, especially with chemicals, you want to use distillation. A still generally uses a fire source, but with the solar oven technology you should be able to set up one -- parabolic mirror or a solar oven style. The hole in the ground emergency method will not produce enough. Don't boil dry.
@theoldguy9329 yeah the heavier compounds will stay behind in the leftover water. I understand the concept, but producing enough would be extremely energy consuming not to mention time consuming.
Smoke production etc.
It's just the amount needed for multiple people is problematic.
Firewood requires a lot of energy to cut, split, use. A used oil burner, heater/cooker in SHTF. There will lots an abandon cars as a source of fuel. Lots of simple how to build your own here on You Tub.
I just do animal fat and protein, no Carbs and i do extremely well. Found i dont need near the amount of water this way either. Never any vegetable oils ever. I can go days without eating and have perfect energy in the mean time.
3:46 Canola Seed Oil.. nah man.
My thoughts as well 😑
Save lard or tallow. Good for frying not so goox on salads. Ghee keeps for quite a while. All keep longer than seed oil. However, if SHTF your life expectancy is likely not shortened by the seed oils.
@@theoldguy9329 I love beef tallow and ghee. This is how I know you know your stuff. Nature knows best.
This preparation is always good all the time. You don't need to wait the end of the civilization to find out that you need to store commodity demonstrated in the video. To combat inflation and price gauging, is crucial to store a maximum of goods and be self-sufficient like out great grand parent.
Yeah the water thing is pretty accurate. I've got two of those and with rain filling the tanks up when it rains i don't run out of water. For gardens you need a massive water supply or grow a garden that doesn't require huge emounts of water. Mulch and shade cloth goes a long way.
Just stocked up 100L of water. Current situation doesn't permit much more but I have pool shock and a nearby creek. I don't think you'd need more than 1kg of coffee, 15kg is bonkers.
Beans are not a protein. They're a carbohydrate that has protein.
And you'll need some way to stop people from stealing your stuff.
Choja-fantastic Mexican Cactus,will stop everybody,period,even catch a rats,so you can have some protein and will taste soo good,if you did not eat for weeks
Thanks for this video Nate! There are many reminders. Annoying for me and my daughter is that 1 we live in an apartment and 2 my budget is not very big. I'll keep doing my best...
All good, do basics best you can.
Yo, I think it would be a cool idea if you did a video illustrating alternatives to building autonomy and self reliance in the context of intentional communities. Shifting the narrative of this hyper individualism we see dominating “prepper communities” and offering a clear vision of what community can look like if people are practicing mutual aid and support, policing themselves, and having an organizational model that is decentralized but still meets the needs of the people in said communities.
Most of us here are prepping, but most if us will never achieve that level. We hope, we wish, we try but the obstacles are hugh. The financial obstacle and the uncoperative relatives are two of the biggest obstacles. I think we ahould all plan on meering Canadian Prepper at his place with Goodies and create a stock pile and setup up camp and guard the perimeter.. What do you say CP? Want some company? Its going to take aome serious fire power to protect that place!
This list is why 90% will not make it. If you do have it, you’re not bugging out with more than a few percent of it, and if you can’t defend it at home you’re not keeping it. It’s not a good situation for anyone no matter how prepared you are.
That was a great video, my wife loves to shop and get extra of every thing, example is that we have so much laundry detergent that we will not need to buy any for 10 years. My point is when shopping buy one extra of what you are shopping for and you will be surprised on how well you will be when something happens.
I'm SO going to hate my survival diet. I've been carnivore for over a year now, and my ability to keep muscle mass up and stay lean so effortlessly, and to not have sugar cravings, is something I can't imagine leaving ever again. Going back to "any" carbs. much less "many" carbs, is frightening to me.
I'm just a few years away from being a "senior citizen", carnivore has dropped a couple decades off me, I can't imagine going back. It's gonna suck.
Highly recommend doing a video on biogas for a shtf situation. I think that it would really come in handy knowing that you could use your food scraps to give you propane essentially indefinitely. And then if you use propane generators, you can augment the need for batteries. Great video!
You can eat tuna once a week and be just fine. I’ve been doing it all my life and my mom too.
Those ammo numbers are rookie numbers! Ya gotta get those numbers up by 20x Nate!
Really! You must be massive. That’s is what is saying per person.
@ if that’s the way you want to gauge that by have at it🤣 preppers stockpile everything so why not ammo too? Nate’s ammo numbers are no where near enough. Ammo will also have high trade value too
@@gregl2459not near enough for what ?? lol are you going on a shooting spree , or expecting full on war in your back yard … tone it down Warhawk
@ there’s always something with people like you calling people names🤣 and trying to paint a bad picture of what you think of gun owners as war mongers.
One of your best videos. Always nice to have an overview
good thing you mentioned that, I think I am short on the eatable oil ...on a side note "Fels-Naptha" laundry soap bars, can pull double duty, my dad used to cut the bars up for sink use...not gucci, but usable
Don't forget about fertilizer for your garden up here in Canada. We have such a short window that we need all the boost we can get
I am prepping! Have homemade casket and dug the hole!😂😂😂😂
You need to rotate stocks of underwear annually, and anything with elastic. You don't want to have your new underwear falling inside of your baggy pants because the elastic broke down 😂 .
If old days, before elastic, if you had underwear they buttoned to the pants. Or two sets of buttons on the suspenders.
Start out prepping for 3 days, then a month, then 6 months, etc. Most disasters are short term so you will get the most out of prepping by starting small. Think of it as minimal insurance coverage. You don't need that expensive policy unless the situation demands it. Great video for the expert prepper, but we want the average Joe to prep as much as possible.
If you’re prepping for anything less than a month you ain’t prepping for it the new reality.
Good evening to all from Houston Tx
afternoon from New Zealand
Howdy, neighbor.
Evening from Tucson, Arizona
Good Night!!!
Good evening from west Texas
Silver lined underwear for work, golden lace for the sheets!
@@Ahmaurnamu it’s the only way to live.
There are a few comments about blending in, protecting your stash etc. If we get to a SHTF situation getting away from other people will be priority #1 and surrounding yourself with others who are prepared. After 3-4 months, there won’t be so many left if it really is bad.
Kinda bummed that CP didn't actually show us what all those KG's of different foods really looked like. I was totally expecting him to do a video in front of a massive pile of food.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing
I was hoping we would see all of those preps too. Where on earth would you store all of that??????
How about using a 1 gallon weed sprayer for a bidet. That way you don’t have to stockpile a whole bunch of toilet paper.
@@dp3797 that is a great idea!
Just remember to NOT use actual weed sprayer in that bottle or you’re in for a rude awakening...
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Your eyes at the beginning. You getting into that supply maan
So blessed we live on a creek. We have pool shock and a drip filtration bag.😊
Previously I managed a consumer products testing laboratory. The breakdown of household power was about 1/3 for heating and cooling, 1/3 for hot water, of the last 1/3 about 1/3 of it was refrigeration, 1/3 lighting and the last third was everything else.
Glad to see you back to making informative material AGAIN...
I've HAD some difficulty on HOW MUCH & WHAT to stock up on food wise. I've ONLY stocked up WHAT I or my dog (s) WILL definitely eat. NO wasting time or space. I'm a 'meat & taters' guy BUT I've stocked up some veggies. I'm in the city , living in a apt. SO, growing food etc. isn't a option currently. I've BEEN stocking up on canned goods , MREs & other non-perishables. AND a shit ton of cases of water. I won't even say HOW MUCH I've GOT stored. I'd LIKE to GET some of those tanks you mentioned. I'm working on GETTING one of those water filtration systems you've mentioned. I ALREADY plan on having to boil & filter/cleaning water from nature. I'm pretty much on it far as what you've said here. Since it's JUST me & the furry ones I think I've GOT it covered pretty well. Thx for the other ideas etc. Nate!!!
you cannot store this for a family, that's why homesteading is the only way
One of the best preparedness videos ive seen! would like to find a book explaining all this in detail to keep for SHTF
Finally real useful video for preppers, appreciate.
I am glad this channel went back to normal.
Waste management: what to do with all the used diapers, and what if there is no sewage system available?
3 gallons per day us a lot of water. Try practicing taking a bath with a pint of water a Hand bath towel with a soap bar. 1 pint of water to rinse. Bring back the two compartment tent for poop in one and shower in the other.
Why do you not have an inverter generator charging your power pack?
Charge with solar. When you run out of sun, run the inverter generator to charge the pack up to 85%.
I think EcoFlow even has a genie for this setup as an accessory.
No oil lamp??
IBC's can be used to produce methane from organic waste.
Also, build a wood gasifier.
Thank you Nate!
I was just sitting here thinking what I might have overlooked! 🎉❤
Got my well(s), am changing over to all deasle and enlarging my ponds that have fish . Also putting crayfish in them . Already have a good flock of chickens. But want to diversify because chickens are so susceptible to diseases. So thinking rabbits and pigs. So I've got a good start. Filtering system is next.
Lol I am choking my chicken! 🐔
I believe you have underestimated the number of chickens. We raised chickens for meat and four eggs.
You will need two chickens for one egg you would like to eat per day. You will also need one additional chicken because sometimes chickens die. Your first year you will get an egg six days a week from each chicken. By year five, the chickens will lay nearly zero eggs per week. Most people replaced 1/3 of their flock each spring. This is because chickens molt in the winter and stop laying eggs. But they will lay eggs, their first year before molting.
We raise 30 meat chickens each summer. This allows a couple to die, a couple to be given away to those who help process the chickens. And it will give us 26 freezer chickens. That’s one rotisserie chicken every other week.
I would need to increase these numbers if I wasn’t eating out.
I don’t think the end of days are here. But I’m watching to obtain good info for survival.
3 gallons/day of water per year is well over 1,000 gallons & not 760 gallons.
He is a physc drop out not a mathematican.
He is a physc drop out not a mathematician
What's a physc?
12:48 speaking of spare parts mentioned in vehicle maintenance… bolts, firing pins, lowers, uppers, basically that old saying two is one, one is none.
What happens after a year?
Sanitary pads and diapers can also double as medical supplies..particularly for stopping bleeding...I have two old school light delivery vans..Nissan 1400...reliable and basic...tough non electronic...one is kept in tip top condition and is my daily vehicle...the other is kept in a good running condition but not perfect...the idea is that one becomes spare parts if need be..
We are at 36 months right now, something are harder to stock but with some careful planning and thinking outside the box it do able and easily scaled up to 3, 4, and moor people.
Get a mountain bike and panniers/trailer and learn to ride loaded.
Informative, detailed and technical video.. thanks Nate!
Where’s the Doom & Gloom Canadian Pothead?
It's him. He's just using his stoned mindset on this one. He does look high.
Rude a$$
@@stephenwatts985rude a$$
Thats why 1st nations made pemican, high fat, much more important than carbs💕
Hi Nate
My son
Nobody is prepared enough and then one guest and it’s toast. 😊it takes a community to survive.
Amazing vid!! I am loving the prep info! ❤