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Dawg25385:
Would love that... one of the drivers for wife and I getting onto a bigger piece of property (soon!) is the ability to have more space for these types of things... definitely a bigger garden, green house, potentially some animals. Love this idea.

Bob Smith:
Wow, big task trying to provide the information needed to provide food sources for yourself long after an event. People that live outside the city most likely have raised a garden of some kind, and maybe even raised a chicken, goat, or a cow or two. The people that have lived the city life forever another story.
Depending on the size, type, and damage of an event would drive the long term needs. We all need to plan for short term survival while working with a network of family and friends that can each help provide for that group. Waiting until the event happens to start growing a garden or finding enough land to be raising animals using information from a website is not the answer in my opinion. Having said that however, if someone wants to start posting up information, it looks like information would be plug and play into already created areas.

Nate:
Ok, let’s see if I can get this down in such a way that folks can understand what
I am talking about.  Because I have had my coffee as well as some time to think about how to write this.

So we talk about survival, survival can be looked at / classified in several different
ways. The 2 biggest ways that come to my mind are apocalyptic survival
(SHTF type survival) and general everyday survival.  Both of these two are in essence intertwined and there for you cannot have one without the other.  Here are 3 examples that will hopefully show what it is that I am talking about.

Example 1:  you find yourself in a survival situation where you as a lifelong city dweller have to keep a couple of chickens alive so that you can survive off the meat of those chicken as well as their eggs.  You think to yourself, “I really wish that of all the time I spent looking and reading RMTW&S and saying to myself that things like this will never happen, well here I am and not once with the vast member knowledge did I ever see anything on how to care for and raise chickens!  I really wish that norm or one of those other farmer types would have done something to show folks how this process works and some of the do’s and dont’s”.

Example 2:  you and your family are traveling, and you suddenly find that you have taken a wrong turn somewhere along your route and are now lost in the “back country” (for lack of a better term) and your vehicle starts to sputter and run out of gas.  You say “great let me pull out my handy cell phone and ill just call AAA and have them come tow me”.  Well you suddenly realize that you do not have cellular signal and you don’t have any other means of contacting help.  Your spouse looks at you and says that it’s been quite a while since they have seen any sort of habitation/population so it may not be beneficial to walk anywhere right now.  Well 2 days has gone by and you and your family have eaten every licky and chewy that you had in the vehicle and are starting to get really hungry and thirsty.  You remember that there was a source of water a little ways back and that you will get a couple of containers and go get some water, bring it back, start a fire and purify the water to ensure it is safe for consumption.  “you think to yourself during the walk “thankfully I learned from RMTW&S how to make a fire and to purify water, now if only somebody like duane, ken, other hunters would have shown an example or video on how to maybe catch an animal and gut, skin and prepare it then my family and I would definitely be good to go until help arrives”.

Example 3:  Your thinking about putting a small shed in your back your back yard and make it a DIY project (because you think it can’t be that hard can it?  Well you do your research on how to do all of this and you come to realize that you just don’t quite understand how to do electrical wiring and how a proper foundation can support the structure.  So since you are a member of RMTW&S you happen to know that dmaxdarren is a licensed electrician and can most likely clarify the wiring for you. 

Hopefully you can see what it is that I am trying to get going here.  We have all of this talent and knowledge at our disposal.  Now I am not saying that we need to completely re-develop RMTW&S or that we need to have hundreds of other categories.  I am just saying that our membership may need more incentive to start sharing the abundance of information that they have.  Again, I am not trying to throw anybody under a bus or force them to share information they don’t feel compelled to do so.  This is merely a thought provoking, motivating/motivational thread.   

cudakidd53:
My reaction is to put together a series of "how to" links to sites that already cover said topics and have resident experts spice it up with "do' n don't" type tips?

moto123:
Another general site improvement suggestion.  I find myself having only a few minutes now and then to catch up on recent posts.  The fastest way is to look at the list of recent topics on the home page.  This works great, but only shows the most recent 5 topics.  Could we expand this to be the most recent 15 or 20 topics?  Then I don't have to go digging through the forum pages to get to the ones I check in on most frequently.  Thanks!

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