{"id":39226,"date":"2018-10-16T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39226"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:49:04","slug":"a-reality-check-for-those-who-plan-to-start-prepper-homestead-after-the-shtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39226","title":{"rendered":"A Reality Check for Those Who Plan to Start Prepper Homestead AFTER the SHTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/heres-why-a-prepper-homestead-may-not-a-good-plan-for-survival\/\">A Reality Check for Those Who Plan to Start Prepper Homestead AFTER the SHTF<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>Lots of preppers are convinced that they\u2019re going to \u201clive off the land\u201d should the world as we know it come tumbling down around our ears.\u00a0Seed banks are stockpiled, books are purchased, and people are confident that they\u2019ll be able to outlive everyone else based on the sweat of their inexperienced brows.<\/p>\n<p>But this may not be the best of ideas for some folks.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been at it for a while, having a homestead can be a wonderful survival plan and a rewarding lifestyle. But if you think you\u2019re going to go straight from the city to live off the land, you\u2019re in for a horrible \u2013 and potentially fatal \u2013\u00a0 surprise.<\/p>\n<p>A prepper homestead is something that must be built over a period of time \u2013 it\u2019s absolutely not a plug-and-play solution, regardless of the number of survival seed packets you have carefully stashed away. <strong>Homesteading for survival is not a good plan if you have never done it before<\/strong>.\u00a0No matter how hardworking you are, homesteading takes time. Time for learning, time for mistakes, and time for your plans to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>When you do eat a meal in which all the ingredients were produced by you, on your own land, it will be the most delicious, gratifying meal you\u2019ve ever eaten. But it\u2019s a long road to get there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A prepper homestead isn\u2019t as easy as you may think.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a prepper homestead is your survival plan, let me give you some advice: <strong>STORE. FOOD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You are going to have to have something to get you through that first year when your farm doesn\u2019t produce diddly squat.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reality Check for Those Who Plan to Start Prepper Homestead AFTER the SHTF Lots of preppers are convinced that they\u2019re going to \u201clive off the land\u201d should the world as we know it come tumbling down around our ears.\u00a0Seed banks are stockpiled, books are purchased, and people are confident that they\u2019ll be able to [&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":[6156,5969,1912,650,7589,715,728,5756],"class_list":["post-39226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-food-gardening","tag-food-production","tag-prepping","tag-reality-check","tag-self-reliance","tag-shtf","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226","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=39226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39227,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39226\/revisions\/39227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}