View media item 12160Got about 600 shells. I gained that perspective years ago when I had someone try to kick my door open.
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View media item 12160Got about 600 shells. I gained that perspective years ago when I had someone try to kick my door open.
Do what I gotta do to survive.
A real SHTF scenario would be much more trying tho. Imagine mobs and gangs of people coming to take what you have worked for. In this scenario there is no law or law enforcement. Anything goes. Most people arent even mentally prepared to handle that
Yeah thinking about ur neighbors turning into somebody who would slit ur throat for ur pork and beans.
To be honest I worry less about myself and more about my family members like my parents.
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It's not just about supplies. You have to start working out as a family and getting healthy. Superior health and mental sharpness is going to be far more useful in the long run. If you can't walk or run long distances and aren't aware of your surroundings in any situation...can't read people...lack good instincts....you're fukked. Like I said it can't be just you. I'm about to start getting my whole family in the gym and doing brain fitness and shyt. We have to be sharp as a unit not just the young ones. I always fear us running away together and someone like an elder or even my mom or dad not being able to keep up physically and making those extremely tough decisions.
After a century in decline, black farmers are back and on the rise
After a century in decline, black farmers are back and on the rise
YES! Magazine
May 08, 2016 · 7:15 AM EDT
By Leah Penniman
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Yonnette Fleming holds a Rhode Island Red hen at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden.
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excludingthem from farm loans and assistance. Meanwhile, racist violence in the South targeted land-owning black farmers, whose very existence threatened the sharecropping system. These factors led to the loss of about 14 million acres of black-owned rural land—an area nearly the size of West Virginia.
predicted the extinction of the black farmer by the year 2000.
They were wrong. While the situation is still dire, with black farmers comprising only about 1 percent of the industry, we have not disappeared. After more than a century of decline, the number of black farmers is on the rise.
More: Black farmers in Detroit are growing their own food. But they're having trouble owning the land.
These farmers are not just growing food, either. The ones you’ll meet here rely on survival strategies inherited from their ancestors, such as collectivism and commitment to social change. They infuse popular education, activism, and collective ownership into their work.
And about that woman who called me from Boston? Years after we first spoke, I called her back. Turns out, she is still at it.
Blain Snipstal, second from left, with members of the Black Dirt Farm Collective.
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Courtesy of Blain Snipstal
Blain Snipstal and Aleya Fraser
Farm: Black Dirt Farm Collective
Location: Preston, Maryland
Number of Years Farming: 7
Revered Elder: Harriet Tubman
About 80 miles southeast of Baltimore, Black Dirt leases 2 acres that long have been home to the black freedom struggle. Harriet Tubman once rescued her parents and nine other people from enslavement in this place, which was one of the first stops on the Underground Railroad.
The 10 farming-collective members who work here today revere Tubman’s example and work to continue her legacy of revolutionary social change. In addition to growing natural food for markets in D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia, they host hundreds of people each year for activist training programs. They continue the farming practices of their ancestors, such as “going through together,” a southern black practice of working collectively in neighbors’ plots and sharing the harvest. They are also part of the North Carolina-based Seed Keepers Collective, and focus on preserving seeds of the African diaspora, including millet, sorghum, cotton and sweet potatoes.
“It’s like jazz music in a sense,” Snipstal explains, referring to Black Dirt’s collaborations with like-minded farmers around the country. “We are always riffing off each other, even if we don’t tell one another.”
Vegan farmers JoVonna Johnson-Cooke and Eugene Cooke raise corn and other native crops at their Stone Mountain farm.
Credit:
Nicole Bluh
Eugene Cooke and JoVanna Johnson-Cooke
Farm: Grow Where You Are Collective
Location: Atlanta and Stone Mountain, Georgia
Number of Years Farming: 14
Revered Elder: Wangari Maathai
Collaboration is also key for the nine members of the Grow Where You Are collective, who operate a 3-acre farm and food forest in Atlanta, as well as a 5-acre farm in the nearby rural community of Stone Mountain.
Here, some of the most important collaborators are churches. Local churches own two-thirds of the group’s urban farmland; their members and food pantries receive a portion of the produce. The collective is vegan, and members use no animal products in their cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
Since 2009, Grow Where You Are members have trained more than 100 urban farmers and helped start 18 urban farms, 14 school gardens and 40 home gardens. They also prepare free vegan feasts for the local community, where neighbors gather for to learn about health, make new friends, and even practice capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that brings together elements of dance and acrobatics. Founder Eugene Cook says these events show “what a sovereign community can feel and be like.”
Yonnette Fleming holds a Rhode Island Red hen at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden.
Credit:
Quincy Ledbetter
Yonnette Fleming
Farm: Hattie Carthan Herban Farm
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Number of Years Farming: 16
Revered Elder: Hattie Carthan
Yonette Fleming’s passion for agriculture comes through in the poetic urgency of her words. So it’s surprising to learn she once tried to escape it. She was raised in Guyana, where her family cooperated with indigenous communities to grow coconuts, sugar, rice, and other crops. She took a detour into corporate America before finding her way back to the land.
“I came to the earth with an open heart and said, ‘Teach me, mold me, shape me, inform me with a new intelligence,’” explains Farmer Yon, as her friends call her. She went on to join the Hattie Carthan Community Garden and founded its first farmers market.
For Fleming, farm work is an essential part of healing from the trauma of racism. Among her Brooklyn neighbors she found black elders who had worked as sharecroppers, as well as young people who’d never set foot on a farm and told her they wanted nothing to do with dirt. She brought the two groups together in a series of monthly storytelling circles in the garden, which built connections between the generations and addressed the young people’s aversion to the land. Students who participated went on to create several discussion and action groups in their schools to address food sovereignty — that is, the right of all people to have a say in the food system. One of them got his food-safety license and is opening a restaurant.
Fleming is also a trained priestess and uses the land as a source of healing for women. After learning that almost one-quarter of women in the United States take antidepressants, she created healing rituals that incorporate drumming, farm-grown herbal medicine, ancestor reverence, building of traditional clay ovens and artisanal bread baking.
Lindsey Lunsford gathers peppers at TULIP’s community garden.
Credit:
Wil Sands
Lindsey Lunsford
Farm: Tuskegee United Leadership and Innovation Program (TULIP)
Location: Tuskegee, Alabama
Number of Years Farming: 2
Revered Elder: Booker T. Washington
The educator and activist Booker T. Washington once sent a letter to every resident of Tuskegee’s Greenwood neighborhood, encouraging them to grow home gardens in order to build self-sufficiency. Through her work with TULIP, Lindsey Lunsford is continuing his legacy.
On the program’s half-acre community garden, members grow traditional African-American crops such as okra, corn, squash, watermelon, eggplants, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, and a special variety of purple sweet potato bred by George Washington Carver, a renowned Black agriculturalist. They supply three local grocery stores and two restaurants, and train their neighbors to start their own home gardens.
Lunsford is just getting started as a farmer, but her vision of a healthier community keeps her motivated. “We have a 24-hour McDonald’s, but we don’t have a 24-hour health care facility,” she explains.
When young people come to work in the garden, she starts off by asking them to draw a picture of Tuskegee, where more than 28 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Many draw scenes of violence, she says, often with the McDonald’s restaurant at the center of the image. “That’s what we are working to change.”
Chris Bolden-Newsome shows off a basket of marshmallow root he grew at Bantram’s Garden.
Credit:
Owen Taylor
Name of Farmer: Chris Bolden-Newsome
Farm: Community Farm and Food Resource Center at Bantram’s Garden (a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Number of Years Farming: 12
Revered Elders: Rufus and Demalda Newsome (his parents)
Before the “food justice” movement existed in the United States, black farmers in the Mississippi Delta were cooperating to feed the community. Raised by farmers in that movement, Chris Bolden-Newsome assumed that growing food was something everybody did and was shocked to find otherwise when he moved north. He now manages a 50-bed community garden in his current home of Philadelphia, where he reconnects black people to their agricultural heritage.
Twelve teenagers are employed at the community farm each year, and Bolden-Newsome teaches them aspects of black culture they may not have been exposed to, such as traditional recipes, seed keeping, liberation songs, and Southern farming techniques.
“Old people tell me they grew up with hatred of the South, and growing food reminded them of bad old days,” Bolden-Newsome explains. He believes the younger generation has picked up that hurt and resentment, but hopes that learning more about black traditions will help to heal the trauma that separates them from the land.
story was originally published by YES! Magazine, a nonprofit publication that supports people’s active engagement in solving today’s social, political and environmental challenges.
After a century in decline, black farmers are back and on the rise
YES! Magazine
May 08, 2016 · 7:15 AM EDT
By Leah Penniman
Comment
farmingimage.png
Yonnette Fleming holds a Rhode Island Red hen at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden.
Credit:
Quincy Ledbetter
excludingthem from farm loans and assistance. Meanwhile, racist violence in the South targeted land-owning black farmers, whose very existence threatened the sharecropping system. These factors led to the loss of about 14 million acres of black-owned rural land—an area nearly the size of West Virginia.
predicted the extinction of the black farmer by the year 2000.
They were wrong. While the situation is still dire, with black farmers comprising only about 1 percent of the industry, we have not disappeared. After more than a century of decline, the number of black farmers is on the rise.
More: Black farmers in Detroit are growing their own food. But they're having trouble owning the land.
These farmers are not just growing food, either. The ones you’ll meet here rely on survival strategies inherited from their ancestors, such as collectivism and commitment to social change. They infuse popular education, activism, and collective ownership into their work.
And about that woman who called me from Boston? Years after we first spoke, I called her back. Turns out, she is still at it.
Blain Snipstal, second from left, with members of the Black Dirt Farm Collective.
Credit:
Courtesy of Blain Snipstal
Blain Snipstal and Aleya Fraser
Farm: Black Dirt Farm Collective
Location: Preston, Maryland
Number of Years Farming: 7
Revered Elder: Harriet Tubman
About 80 miles southeast of Baltimore, Black Dirt leases 2 acres that long have been home to the black freedom struggle. Harriet Tubman once rescued her parents and nine other people from enslavement in this place, which was one of the first stops on the Underground Railroad.
The 10 farming-collective members who work here today revere Tubman’s example and work to continue her legacy of revolutionary social change. In addition to growing natural food for markets in D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia, they host hundreds of people each year for activist training programs. They continue the farming practices of their ancestors, such as “going through together,” a southern black practice of working collectively in neighbors’ plots and sharing the harvest. They are also part of the North Carolina-based Seed Keepers Collective, and focus on preserving seeds of the African diaspora, including millet, sorghum, cotton and sweet potatoes.
“It’s like jazz music in a sense,” Snipstal explains, referring to Black Dirt’s collaborations with like-minded farmers around the country. “We are always riffing off each other, even if we don’t tell one another.”
Vegan farmers JoVonna Johnson-Cooke and Eugene Cooke raise corn and other native crops at their Stone Mountain farm.
Credit:
Nicole Bluh
Eugene Cooke and JoVanna Johnson-Cooke
Farm: Grow Where You Are Collective
Location: Atlanta and Stone Mountain, Georgia
Number of Years Farming: 14
Revered Elder: Wangari Maathai
Collaboration is also key for the nine members of the Grow Where You Are collective, who operate a 3-acre farm and food forest in Atlanta, as well as a 5-acre farm in the nearby rural community of Stone Mountain.
Here, some of the most important collaborators are churches. Local churches own two-thirds of the group’s urban farmland; their members and food pantries receive a portion of the produce. The collective is vegan, and members use no animal products in their cultivation of fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
Since 2009, Grow Where You Are members have trained more than 100 urban farmers and helped start 18 urban farms, 14 school gardens and 40 home gardens. They also prepare free vegan feasts for the local community, where neighbors gather for to learn about health, make new friends, and even practice capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that brings together elements of dance and acrobatics. Founder Eugene Cook says these events show “what a sovereign community can feel and be like.”
Yonnette Fleming holds a Rhode Island Red hen at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden.
Credit:
Quincy Ledbetter
Yonnette Fleming
Farm: Hattie Carthan Herban Farm
Location: Brooklyn, New York
Number of Years Farming: 16
Revered Elder: Hattie Carthan
Yonette Fleming’s passion for agriculture comes through in the poetic urgency of her words. So it’s surprising to learn she once tried to escape it. She was raised in Guyana, where her family cooperated with indigenous communities to grow coconuts, sugar, rice, and other crops. She took a detour into corporate America before finding her way back to the land.
“I came to the earth with an open heart and said, ‘Teach me, mold me, shape me, inform me with a new intelligence,’” explains Farmer Yon, as her friends call her. She went on to join the Hattie Carthan Community Garden and founded its first farmers market.
For Fleming, farm work is an essential part of healing from the trauma of racism. Among her Brooklyn neighbors she found black elders who had worked as sharecroppers, as well as young people who’d never set foot on a farm and told her they wanted nothing to do with dirt. She brought the two groups together in a series of monthly storytelling circles in the garden, which built connections between the generations and addressed the young people’s aversion to the land. Students who participated went on to create several discussion and action groups in their schools to address food sovereignty — that is, the right of all people to have a say in the food system. One of them got his food-safety license and is opening a restaurant.
Fleming is also a trained priestess and uses the land as a source of healing for women. After learning that almost one-quarter of women in the United States take antidepressants, she created healing rituals that incorporate drumming, farm-grown herbal medicine, ancestor reverence, building of traditional clay ovens and artisanal bread baking.
Lindsey Lunsford gathers peppers at TULIP’s community garden.
Credit:
Wil Sands
Lindsey Lunsford
Farm: Tuskegee United Leadership and Innovation Program (TULIP)
Location: Tuskegee, Alabama
Number of Years Farming: 2
Revered Elder: Booker T. Washington
The educator and activist Booker T. Washington once sent a letter to every resident of Tuskegee’s Greenwood neighborhood, encouraging them to grow home gardens in order to build self-sufficiency. Through her work with TULIP, Lindsey Lunsford is continuing his legacy.
On the program’s half-acre community garden, members grow traditional African-American crops such as okra, corn, squash, watermelon, eggplants, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, and a special variety of purple sweet potato bred by George Washington Carver, a renowned Black agriculturalist. They supply three local grocery stores and two restaurants, and train their neighbors to start their own home gardens.
Lunsford is just getting started as a farmer, but her vision of a healthier community keeps her motivated. “We have a 24-hour McDonald’s, but we don’t have a 24-hour health care facility,” she explains.
When young people come to work in the garden, she starts off by asking them to draw a picture of Tuskegee, where more than 28 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Many draw scenes of violence, she says, often with the McDonald’s restaurant at the center of the image. “That’s what we are working to change.”
Chris Bolden-Newsome shows off a basket of marshmallow root he grew at Bantram’s Garden.
Credit:
Owen Taylor
Name of Farmer: Chris Bolden-Newsome
Farm: Community Farm and Food Resource Center at Bantram’s Garden (a project of the University of Pennsylvania’s Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Number of Years Farming: 12
Revered Elders: Rufus and Demalda Newsome (his parents)
Before the “food justice” movement existed in the United States, black farmers in the Mississippi Delta were cooperating to feed the community. Raised by farmers in that movement, Chris Bolden-Newsome assumed that growing food was something everybody did and was shocked to find otherwise when he moved north. He now manages a 50-bed community garden in his current home of Philadelphia, where he reconnects black people to their agricultural heritage.
Twelve teenagers are employed at the community farm each year, and Bolden-Newsome teaches them aspects of black culture they may not have been exposed to, such as traditional recipes, seed keeping, liberation songs, and Southern farming techniques.
“Old people tell me they grew up with hatred of the South, and growing food reminded them of bad old days,” Bolden-Newsome explains. He believes the younger generation has picked up that hurt and resentment, but hopes that learning more about black traditions will help to heal the trauma that separates them from the land.
story was originally published by YES! Magazine, a nonprofit publication that supports people’s active engagement in solving today’s social, political and environmental challenges.
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I’m from Brooklyn a place where stars are born.
If SHTF hit the fan over here in NYC it would turn into 1990s Mogadishu x1000 in 3 days. Man the 2003 blackout was a wakeup call. The thought of no electricity in all five boroughs for an extended period of time is horrifying.
Never thought of it. Its worse because I have immediate family. If it was just me, I would likely be on some savage shyt.
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Guns ain't enough.
It all comes down to location, location, location.
Urban planning in modern times called for cities to be gridded right to the Interstate system to allow for quick military mobilization and the ability to directly manage traffic at a moment's notice. This required encirclement by an interstate for cities where the city proper and surrounding areas goes well over 1 million plus. (I.e. 285 in Atlanta and 485 here in Charlotte)
A false sense of safety will develop in folks who believe that the cities will be a refuge. A lot of y'all will die or find yourself in situations you only thought were possible in the movies. City utilities will be secured first, checkpoints established and the priority of police forces will be to make sure that their forces and resources are concentrated in certain areas and that they're not spread too thin. Certain neighborhoods will be cordoned off by targeted blackouts and possible roadblocks..those areas will be left up to fate.
I always recommend that folks learn survival tactics in the wilderness. Learning how to live off the land will be invaluable because the reality of it all is that this will not go on for much longer..the relative comfort we enjoy.
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12 Strategies for Creating the Perfect Pantry - The Organic Prepper
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There are a lot of different ways to go about building your pantry. While each style has its pros and cons, I think that adhering to any one strategy alone leaves some gaps in your food preparedness. Personally, I’m a fan of combining the best of each world based on the needs of your particular family. Enjoy this excerpt from the updated version of my book, The Pantry Primer.
Excerpt from The Pantry Primer: A Prepper’s Guide to Whole Food on a Half-Price Budget
Looking for a strategy to create your own pantry? There are a lot of different philosophies out there, but I think it boils down to three basic types of food supplies:
The Bunker Pantry
This is the most “hardcore” of the food storage types. A Bunker Pantry is the type of food supply that could keep you going for the next ten years without a single trip to the store. Sure, it might be a little bit boring and lacking in variety, but it is a supply that will see you through any disaster while allowing you to remain in your shelter. This type of pantry focuses on huge quantities of long-term foods, repackaged carefully to resist spoilage due to pests or the elements.
If this is the type of pantry you’d like to build, focus on staples such as wheat, rice, dried beans, salt, and sugar. These foods can be purchased in bulk and repackaged by the user, or you can purchase them already packaged up through vendors like the Latter Day Saints (LDS) warehouse or online food storage websites.
Do you want to prep but you’re not sure how to get started?
We can help. Go on over to Preppers University and check out our Prepping Intensive course. And if you’ve been at this for a while and want to take your preparedness to the next level, check out our 6-Week Advanced Prepping Intensive.
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There are a lot of different ways to go about building your pantry. While each style has its pros and cons, I think that adhering to any one strategy alone leaves some gaps in your food preparedness. Personally, I’m a fan of combining the best of each world based on the needs of your particular family. Enjoy this excerpt from the updated version of my book, The Pantry Primer.
Excerpt from The Pantry Primer: A Prepper’s Guide to Whole Food on a Half-Price Budget
Looking for a strategy to create your own pantry? There are a lot of different philosophies out there, but I think it boils down to three basic types of food supplies:
- The Bunker Pantry
- The Agrarian Pantry
- The Bargain-Hunter’s Pantry
The Bunker Pantry
This is the most “hardcore” of the food storage types. A Bunker Pantry is the type of food supply that could keep you going for the next ten years without a single trip to the store. Sure, it might be a little bit boring and lacking in variety, but it is a supply that will see you through any disaster while allowing you to remain in your shelter. This type of pantry focuses on huge quantities of long-term foods, repackaged carefully to resist spoilage due to pests or the elements.
If this is the type of pantry you’d like to build, focus on staples such as wheat, rice, dried beans, salt, and sugar. These foods can be purchased in bulk and repackaged by the user, or you can purchase them already packaged up through vendors like the Latter Day Saints (LDS) warehouse or online food storage websites.
Do you want to prep but you’re not sure how to get started?
We can help. Go on over to Preppers University and check out our Prepping Intensive course. And if you’ve been at this for a while and want to take your preparedness to the next level, check out our 6-Week Advanced Prepping Intensive.Which Prepping Intensive Course Is Right For Me?
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I've been harping on this stuff for the past couple of years. I'm fatigued with it.
I'd recommend folks who work at places like nuclear power plants or any utilities to be extra mindful of this shyt.