Survival skills

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Originally Posted by Cdnwolf

You forgot the most valuable resource of all.... BOOKS. All those skills are available in written form and once the end comes... imagine how valuable a copy of the SAS survival guide would be?

YES!!! The saving of knowledge.
My very long list of books to have is lead by Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living (ECL), but John Seymour's books are close second. ECL is in it's umpteenth edition and the author died recently (last year or so), but IS chocked full of many many many good ideas and how to's of agriculture (for the US at least). Seymour's estate re-published one of his earlier books but it is NOT as good as the original. Much like movie remakes, it lost alot in the modernization.


Add papermaker, inkmaker, paintmaker to list of skills.

(note: brown ink is easiest to make.)