Plans to Build a Garden Box and Fall Gardens

by suburban | Oct 4, 2010 | Food, Gardening, suburban survival, Urban Survival

I have plans.  I always have plans.  But one of my plans this fall is to build a raised gar­den box the size of a table I have on the deck of my apart­ment.  It is wor­thy invest­ment, assum­ing I am going to stay in this spot for the next cou­ple of... Read more

Saturday Videos

by suburban | Oct 2, 2010 | General

Today’s Edu­tain­ment on Hulu, Episode One of Sur­vival School How to Make Water­proof Tin­der for Fire Start­ing Urban Indoor Secret Sur­vival Gar­den Water Short­age — Urban Sur­vival Ger­ald Celente On The Col­lec­tor’ s Coach... Read more

I Ordered My ARRL Ham Radio License Manual

by suburban | Oct 1, 2010 | Communications, Personal, Preparedness

I ordered my ARRL Ham Radio License Man­u­al this week.   It was pred­i­cat­ed on the North­ern  NJ Meet­up I attend­ed a cou­ple weeks ago, and anoth­er gen­tle­man I met at the meet­up some time ago that has his Ham license.  There is a lot of... Read more

A Fine From the TSA… I Should Have Expected It…

by suburban | Sep 30, 2010 | Personal

Remem­ber that lit­tle post I wrote a month or so ago about my morn­ing at Newark Air­port?  Well about 30 days ago, I get a let­ter in the mail from the TSA.  What did it say you might ask?  Well, they imposed a $250.00 civ­il penal­ty against me.... Read more

DIY — Making Makeshift Shoes Out of Tires Post SHTF

by suburban | Sep 30, 2010 | Clothing, DIY, suburban survival, Urban Survival

NOTE:  I found this post here, and thought it inter­est­ing enough as a DIY project you can file in the back of your head or put on your USB dri­ve to car­ry around with you: This seems sort of odd…but in a post dis­as­ter world that may not get back to... Read more