So I joined a prepper/ homesteading group on Facebook because it kept popping up and I was bored. I prep but don't really interact with the " wider community" I guess. Well I gotta say , it seem most preppers are way more concerned with guns and gear then anything else. And this is coming from me... A gun nut.. Actually made a few posts last few days just to see what would happen ( also because we have been kinda locked down due to a front coming though...can only clean so much lol ) . Ask about livestock options , few comments genetic answers , ask about medicinal herbs , nothing . Gardening... Not much at all Trapping and modern traps for SHTF ....they just decline the posts ... Making stuff you could trade ... nada

Something gun related that been hashed 20million times like , best AR15 optic or is the mosin nagnat still viable .... HOLY CRAP 300 something. Comments in an hour and half of them are at least a paragraph for the sake of some of these folks if it hits the fan it better go full blown mad max or red dawn because if it just ends up being another great depression ( which I honestly think is one of the more likely deals) idk how there gonna do not being rambo fighting of the hordes of raiders every day lol.

Like dont get me wrong hard skills are important..but if that's like 90% of what you have ......

Idk mabye no one just wants to talk about the boring stuff is all or maybe it's not manly enough or something because most of the good chats I had have been with the women folk about animals and plants

One thing Danny pointed out firewood can be difficult without gas, it also takes a lot of room per btu to store this is one reason I’m looking more at coal, even now with my elbow in bad shape I’m having trouble running my saw, so even now in decent condition’s wood can be an issue so the ability to burn both is a definite asset.

One thing Danny pointed out firewood can be difficult without gas, it also takes a lot of room per btu to store this is one reason I’m looking more at coal, even now with my elbow in bad shape I’m having trouble running my saw, so even now in decent condition’s wood can be an issue so the ability to burn both is a definite asset.

I got a prepper that buys honey from me. Buys five gallons every October for the last three years. I asked the lady what she thought of the honey….she said she hadn’t eaten any of it. Said she was saving all of it for bartering. She could use it for bear bait for all I care, but I thought that was kinda odd that she was stockpiling it.