Northeast Florida Prepper Meeting 02/05/2011
Minutes
Skills our members would like to acquire:
- Emergency Medical
- Forms of communications (ham radios / CB / Scanners)
- Homesteading – rural and urban
- Solar and wind energy / power
- Gardening Skill
- Learn Fl growing seasons and what foods grow here
- Edible landscaping
- Permaculture
- Hugelkultur (eliminate need for irrigation – mirrors a forest)
- Beekeeping
- Backyard poultry
- Aquaculture
- Canning
- Dry freezing
- Dehydrating
- Soap making
- Sewing
- How to build a composting toilet
- Hunting, Fishing
- Security
- Secure home (invasion prevention)
- Acquire window film (8-10 mil) for windows to prevent easy breakage
- Protect family - Group benefits (skills and protection)
- Body security
- Building Community
- Mutual aid
- Mutual protection and assistance
- Bulk supply share
- Finding raw land and developing it now
- Raw survival skills
- Fire starting
- Foraging
- Converting electric pump to pitcher pump
Skills our members have and are willing to share:
- Water purification w/pressure cooker
- Outdoorsman skills
- Fire Starting
- Foraging
- Building a BOB
- Everyday carry
- Making a paracord bracelet / gun sling
- Pressure cooking/canning/water bath
- Setting up a pitcher pump on an electric well
- Solar power
- Making soap and cleaners
- Gardening
- Canning
- Dehydrating
- Firearms federal license holder
- Bullet casting & reloading
- Home security
- Basic snaring
- CB use
- Urban raised bed gardening
- Sewing
- Crocheting
- Knitting
- Foraging
- Water purification via calcium hypochlorite
- Rain barrels / gravity fed watering system
- Making rain barrels
- Conversion of electric pump to pitcher pump
- EMT
- Beekeeping
- Seed saving
- Making Balms
- Building coops and hutches
- Building compost corral
Tips Provided:
Solar batteries: Trojan 105 6V sold at Battery Depot (Lane Ave) & St Aug Golf Carts
Sodium hypochlorite - sold at Pinch a Penny and Splash Pools
LDS Cannery on 103rd St & Firestone sells storage food at cost, mylar bag and CO2 absorbers (1000 for $10) – (preferable to know someone)
Silver purchases: Edgewood Coin (Johnny)
A suggestion was made that we have Dean Green of come and show us foraging. He usually charges $20 per person.
Recommended Books and Websites:
- Google: Guerilla Gardening
- Google: hugelkultur (eliminate need for irrigation – mirrors a forest)
Recommended Readings:
Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Book of 5 Rings
How to Prosper in the Coming Bad Years by Howard Ruff
Patriots by James Wesley Rawles (fiction)
One Second After by William R. Forstchen (fiction) – Jax Public Library has audio book
Restoration Series by Terri Blackstock
Topics for our Next Meeting:
- Everyday Carry
- Fire starting
- Home Security
- Making Soap and Cleaners
- Seed Saving