{"id":15214,"date":"2012-04-17T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2012-04-04T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:34:09","slug":"doomsday-prepping-with-help-from-your-local-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/doomsday-prepping-with-help-from-your-local-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Prepping with Help from your Local Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many people, I have been watching a lot of NatGeo’s new show, Doomsday Preppers<\/em> <\/a>and have quickly come to realize that my education is sadly lacking in food preservation methods and bug-out techniques. I am no Katniss Everdeen!
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For those unfamiliar with this ridiculously awesome show, each episode of Doomsday Preppers features several different people (or families) who are prepping for a variety of end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenarios such as an economic collapse, volcano eruption, global climate change, etc. The preppers take us through all the details of their plan and then NatGeo’s disaster experts give a critique on how well they would actually cope in such a disaster situation. I was sold on the show after seeing a gourmet cook train the women in her community on self-defense techniques (since history has shown that violence against women increases during disaster situations) and then invite them back to her suburban home where she cooked them all a fancy meal including 8+ month old eggs (to preserve her fresh eggs, she just rubs each one with mineral oil). I feel so unprepared! Thankfully the library has plenty of resources to help with food preservation & production, self-defense, and living off the grid which seem to the top three concerns for most of the Preppers. Here is just a small offering of books available in our libraries’ collections:<\/p>\n

Food Production & Preservation:
\n\"How<\/a>\"Stocking<\/a>\"Edible<\/a><\/p>\n

Self Defense:
\n\"Real<\/a>\"Bruce<\/a>\"Modern<\/a><\/p>\n

Energy Needs:
\n\"Living<\/a>\"renewable<\/a>\"Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

And handy homesteading books usually cover a bit of everything:
\n\"Homesteading\"<\/a>\"Modern<\/a><\/p>\n

Good luck with your prep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many people, I have been watching a lot of NatGeo’s new show, Doomsday Preppers and have quickly come to realize that my education is sadly lacking in food preservation methods and bug-out techniques. I am no Katniss Everdeen! For those unfamiliar with this ridiculously awesome show, each episode of[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[1922,1924,1925,1923,1605],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","tag-doomsday-preppers","tag-food-preservation","tag-living-off-the-grid","tag-national-geographic","tag-natural-disasters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3Xo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}