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

Pedialyte For A Survival Situation

by suburban | Sep 23, 2010 | first aid, Food, Health, Water

So, I was in South Flori­da on busi­ness last week.  I had to take clients out to din­ner, and had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to see some friends.  Admit­ted­ly, I knew I was going to be con­sum­ing amounts of alco­hol over the course of the week that were high­er... Read more

Lessons in Preserving Meats and Poultry

by suburban | Sep 13, 2010 | Cooking, DIY, Food, Personal, Preparedness, Self Reliance

This past labor day week­end, a bud­dy and I went camp­ing.  Not like real camp­ing, how­ev­er, in the woods with no facil­i­ties, and no one around for miles, but to a piece of prop­er­ty his fam­i­ly owns that he will like­ly use as a Bug Out Loca­tion.... Read more

A Friend Has Lost Everything, Checked Into a Men’s Shelter…

by suburban | Sep 9, 2010 | Clothing, Economy, EDC, Fire, first aid, Food, Improvised Gear, Personal, Psychology, suburban survival, Survival Gear, Survivalism, Urban Survival, Water

This post is very close to my heart…  It pains me to write it, as it affects a friend of mine direct­ly, that refus­es help, as I will illus­trate. I have a friend I got a call from this week.  He has lost his job, his apart­ment, much of his cloth­ing,... Read more

Talk about Senate Bill 510 or S510

by suburban | Sep 8, 2010 | Food, Gardening, Heirloom Seeds

There has been a lot of chat­ter about Sen­ate Bill 510 recent­ly, and I do not see much report­ing on it.  What I do see is a lot of rumor and innu­en­do about it, and I have to be hon­est, that I must do more in depth research myself.  How­ev­er, in light... Read more

Why I Write About Cooking and Food

by suburban | Aug 24, 2010 | Cooking, Food, General

I, like many oth­ers in our coun­try, are VERY accus­tomed to just get­ting in the car, going to the gro­cery store and pick­ing up our food for the week.  Hon­est­ly, I grew up this way.  While many of my friends and their fam­i­lies ran farms, I was a... Read more