Solid Capabilities are Estabished
After fleshing out the 3 previous stages we are becoming very capable of survival, and so for Phase 4 we begin to shift our focus from ‘Survive’ to ‘Thrive’. Herein there are big life changes, which will dramatically enhance our staying power and independence during a Grid Down crisis.
Stage 4:
- Water: Solar-Based Battery Generator Backup for home well pump (typically 240v)
- Consider also that power to recharge the Batteries could come from Wind or Heat
- Water: Distillation system for purifying ground water
- Food: 6 months of dried and canned food (per person)
- Food: Vegetable garden, Cereal acreage, and fruit trees
- Food: Experience with organic cultivation of vegetable garden, cereal crops, and fruit orchards (there won’t be modern pesticides available)
- Food: Chickens for meat and eggs
- Food: Goats for milk and meat
- Food: Pressure canner
- 200+ Canning Jars and 400+ lids
- Book Review: Amish Canning Recipes
- Food: Traditional Wood Smoker
- Shelter: You live on a large plot of arable land, miles away from the ‘city limits’
- Shelter: A small tractor, with front loader and backhoe
- Shelter: Have learned how to fell trees and produce firewood by hand
- First Aid: Further Training
- First Aid: Additional Emergency Prescription Medical Kits (1 per person)
- Sanitation: Have learned how to make your own soap from wood ash and tallow
- Physical Fitness: Increase hiking difficulty by packing a 20 pound pack
- Defense/Security: Thermal Rifle Scope
- Defense/Security: 1000 sandbags
- Defense/Security: Guard Dog
- Communications: HAM Base Station
- Communications: Extra HAM License
- Communications: Have made contact with distant states
- Surveillance: Drone
