Category: Meaningful Activity

• 2026

  Last Summer My Vegetables Stopped Growing in the Extreme Heat

  I’ll be honest: last Summer my Potato harvest was abysmal, & in the extreme heat my vegetables stopped growing; at times, some plants’ leaves wilted. Many died and I know…
• 2026

  Tinder Boxes

  Tinder Boxes A tinder box is your advantage when making a fire. It can be any container, and it can hold whatever tinder works for you. Sometimes it’s not even…
• 2026

  Foraging: Why “know local edibles” & “learn 5–10 safe, local edible plants and fungi” is a Darwin Award Lottery Ticket.

  Getting Foraging Wrong Can Be Lethal Because people get stuff wrong. Other foraging books/videos might not adequately differentiate between plants or give warnings; in fact, some social media foraging groups…
• 2026

  If Extinction is Probable, Why Bother Learning Skills & Adapting?

  Connect with Featured Content: https://linktr.ee/SolidarityPrepper Agriculture is in crisis. Grain harvests have been steadily getting worse, as have potato harvests. Everything is NOT ok and people know it. The zeitgeist…
• 2026

  Honoring Fear or Facing Our Fear? Darkness, Nature, Survivalism, & Survival Skills

  Initiation into fear and our responses to it is the great personal work we need to do. Episode 1 of Channel 4 Apocalypse, which I reviewed, offers a great example…
• 2026

  Survival Skills: The skills and knowledge that enable a deep connection to nature

  Rekindling your connection to nature may be the most rewarding thing you do in your lifetime; it offers lifelong learning in skills that bring you into close communication with plants…
• 2026

  Water in the Ecological Crisis: A Dwindling Resource: Harvesting, Storage & Processing

  This post is an amalgamation of multiple posts from my Blogger blog published between 2020 and 2024 The climate and ecological crisis is also a water crisis. Here are some…