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    Posted: May 01 2015 at 9:28pm
Is anyone doing a garden this year? What is everyone doing for prepping this month?
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No garden just more construction I am having a retaining wall put in and new fence. More work more money!
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your not gonna last long without clean water

http://www.homespunenvironmental.com/
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Satori, I have a Berkey with several extra filters. If you strain the water from your local river, lake, etc.. with a strainer with a coffee filter in the strainer. Then I would strain it again, let the water settle for a day or two then pour off the top clear water then sanitize that water with bleach. Then put it through the Berkey or a homemade Burkey. I am also thinking about a Propur as a backup system.

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3 minutes without Oxygen
3 days without water
3 weeks without food
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Well just looked at the test results from the Propur...Big Berkey beat the Propur hands down!   So I guess I will just purchase more Berkey filters including the arsenic filter. I believe in back up, back up, back up. Watched too many Twilight Zone TV programs where people died because they did not have a back up.

When I purchased the Royal Berkey (good size for my family) I purchased extra filters and replacement parts for the spigot too. Like I said back up!
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prepping emphasis this week is on stocking up on hardware type items

replacement parts,nails,screws,rolls of plastic,tarps etc

I also went through my tools and added a few things I was missing
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Heads up Aussies -

I went through my preps and decided to replace my powdered milk supply. I've been to 3 supermarkets and all have no stocks of powered milk. I asked at the last place I visited why and was told that Asians buy it as soon as it hits the shelves - in large quantities, to send home to their relatives in China. From what I was told, quality powdered milk is hard to get in China and is cheaper here.
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for those of you in the US

Lowes now stocking food grade 5 gallon buckets and lids

buckets are $4.48 and lids $2.48

they're located in the paint section of all places

they also have gamma lids for $7.99


Lowes,the lumber store,not the grocery store chain
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