{"id":17712,"date":"2016-02-12T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17712"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:48:02","slug":"self-reliance-weekly-report-planning-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17712","title":{"rendered":"Self Reliance Weekly Report: Planning for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/self-reliance-weekly-report-planning-for-spring-02122016\">Self Reliance Weekly Report: Planning for Spring<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fwI\" title=\"Feb 11 Self Reliance Strategies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Feb-11-Self-Reliance-Strategies-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_top\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list a2a_target\"><em>This week\u2019s Self Reliance Weekly Report is all about getting ready for spring.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>It\u2019s here: that time of year when it\u2019s still winter, but the anticipation of spring is in the air. (And possibly on the table in the form of seed and nursery catalogs!) \u00a0One of my favorite parts of self-reliance is the planning and the dreaming. Right now, I\u2019m figuring out my garden and my livestock for the year.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Self-Reliance Weekly Report is a collection of strategies, made up of the articles, books, DIYs, and products that I found useful on my own little prepper\u2019s homestead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Do you have a plan to grow food after disaster strikes?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0First of all, you have to be sure that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TUSe76\">you\u2019re stocked up on seeds<\/a>, but that is only the tip of the iceberg lettuce. There\u2019s a lot more to a survival homestead than a seed vault stashed away in your closet.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodsresistance.com\/post-apocalyptic-gardening-a-few-things-you-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Terry, who has been farming for most of his life, sheds some light on the top myths of post-apocalyptic farming<\/a>.\u00a0For the love of all things cute and fluffy, if you plan to survive on what you raise, you need to start now. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/heres-why-a-prepper-homestead-may-not-a-good-plan-for-survival-10052015\">Here is a timeline for how long it takes to get your homestead to produce food<\/a>. And never forget that in any given year, your garden can be a total flop. Mine was a complete disaster this year \u2013 it was so bad that it was actually funny but if we were relying on that food, we would have starved. It\u2019s essential to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.ca\/what-will-you-eat-when-your-garden-is-a-flop-07162015\">\u00a0know what you\u2019ll eat if your survival garden fails, as well as how to troubleshoot the garden<\/a>\u00a0to try and salvage what you can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Reliance Weekly Report: Planning for Spring This week\u2019s Self Reliance Weekly Report is all about getting ready for spring. It\u2019s here: that time of year when it\u2019s still winter, but the anticipation of spring is in the air. (And possibly on the table in the form of seed and nursery catalogs!) \u00a0One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6156,1912,5837,10036,650,715],"class_list":["post-17712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-food-production","tag-organic-prepper","tag-preparing","tag-prepping","tag-self-reliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17713,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17712\/revisions\/17713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}