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Happiness and Health in the Face of Coming Crises
I first wrote about the EMP threat in 2003 in Dare To Prepare when people often tossed this concern into the trash bucket. Subsequently it was addressed in Prudent Places USA and most recently in Prophetic Perils: End Time Events Revealed. Author William Forstchen wrote several novels on the topic. The books were interesting, as far as they went, but didn't begin to paint just how bad this event might be. However, he likely wanted to keep readers on the lighter side for saleability's sake. He wasn't penning Apocalypse: The Prequel or (John's) Revelation of Jesus Christ. Here we are 2 decades later, and the grid still hasn't been reinforced. Some 365 million people in the U.S. and Canada are vulnerable to a nightmare worse than anything we've experienced. EMP – A LOUDER WARNING Last year and this, numerous EMP articles have rolled out across the Internet in a steadily increasing drumbeat. Ditto for videos, some well done, others not. We hear through back channels that our government is more worried about an EMP event than any other disaster. It concerns them more than a Richter 10 earthquake hitting California, an Ebola outbreak or a financial collapse. These events, while absolutely awful, are either containable or centered in a specific region while leaving a good deal of the country intact. This short video presented by Christopher Greene (AMTV) gave a very light outline of what we'd face. Greene stressed the need to prepare, to have food and water stored. He also mentioned about just-in-time inventory and said stores would be cleaned out of food in 2 days. That's very optimistic since the ensuing panic when the full impact of an EMP is realized will have food wiped out within hours. That's providing you have cash and how fast you could hike or bike to the store. Most things that require computer chips to run would be essentially neutered. Feet and tires don't require electronics. Even if stores had back-up generators, checks and credit cards still need the Internet for verification. JUST-IN-TIME – JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Especially in an extensive disaster, "people thinking they can load up at the local grocery store will have a shock, because everyone who hasn't prepared will be thinking the same thing.
N Instead of searching for hours on the Internet for what you need, Garden Gold: Grow Maximum Veggies With Minimum Effort, gives you over over 500 suppliers with their contact information and websites, including 100s of companies that sell open-pollinated, organic and heirloom varieties. You'll spend less time hunting for seeds and supplies, which leaves you more time to get your plants going. It's more important than ever to use open-pollinated and heirloom seeds so you need never buy them again – especially when times get really tough and they may not be available. PLANTING AT A GLANCE One of Garden Gold's features Stan and I use every year is the Master Planting Chart, which lists over 60 fruits and veggies. A single easy-to-read chart gives you their growing essentials, so saving and digging out every single seed packet is a thing of the past. There's also a separate convenient Planting Chart for 36 herbs.
Remember hearing old-timers talk about their land being “played out”? They were referring to the lost richness that naturally nourished crops. Without putting back what plants consume, crops have to grow in a wasteland. Enter, chemical fertilizers. While they help plants in the short term, chemicals can ultimately damage the land not to mention our own health. Since 1910, due to poor soil some fruits and vegetables have lost 80% of their mineral content. Stating the obvious: food can’t give our bodies what it never had in the first place.
So consider a veggie garden this year if you haven't tried it. One 4x4 raised bed gives a person all the veggies and salads they can eat. For every other family member, add another 4x4 raised bed. Instructions are in Garden Gold: Grow Maximum Veggies With Minimum Effort.
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Never before have we heard so many alarms raised over the EMP threat. This isn't a new worry, but one that's increasingly more likely to occur. Dr. Gary Smith, then Director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, addressed Congress 20 years ago. You've likely seen this graphic produced by Dr. Gary Smith in his report, "Electromagnetic Pulse Threats" for his testimony to House National Security Committee. It shows how an EMP strike can affect America nationwide. In short, the higher a nuke is detonated overhead, the broader is 'lights out' for America and Canada basically taking out most things that run life as we know it. Like many sci-fi stories conceived years ago, it is now a pressing reality.
Image: Any country with nuclear weapons capabilities and a delivery system could produce an EMP strike. Last month it was revealed that both 
"During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, Americans lived a different lifestyle. More than half of the people lived rurally and produced their own food. They had their own water well. They were self-sufficient. By mid-century, only 43% of Americans lived on farms. Today, thanks to mechanized farming and years of young people migrating to cities, this number has shrunk to just 1%. Instead of growing our own food, we depend on grocery stores." 
o matter how much freeze-dried, dehydrated and canned goods you have stored, after months of it, even the whiff of a fresh tomato, onion, jalapeño or carrot would be wonderful! About mid-winter, Stan and I are beyond tired of store bought, cardboard-tasting tomatoes.
allow to regain some of what they’d lost. They also planted other crops like beans, peas, alfalfa and clover, and buried dead fish in their fields to help restore precious minerals.