Semper, I want to ask a lot of questions and I know you can assist very cool you are on board here!This # is for real and I am no youngster try 55 yrs. old but, strong virile, and deadly; I need assistance with living in az. desrt environments., preparing, they have raped me of my trades here I am highly skilled and talented, however, my family being extremely jealous and let's get beyond that. I need to know some prep now, I realize we are going in for a fight to survive and I wish I COULD JUST explain more but, let,s talk!!

VERY glad to see this forum! Thank you Mods for getting it up and running. I have already bookmarked this forum as a favorite and plan to visit this forum at least 5 times a week.(lunchtime at work) I, too, am a proponent of the survival lifestyle and have taught my son many things including finding and eating of wild edibles here in the midwest.

Admittedly, wild edibles in the middle of winter is still frustrating to me. Sure, hunting/trapping is a great resource, but when the shelves are empty in the stores, the woods and fields will be FULL of people and guns. Pretty much all game will be gone within a couple of weeks. Once people figure out how to take fish in the winter by employing illegal techniques, the lakes, ponds and rivers will be void within 4-5 weeks.

Basically, the only food one will have is what they stored ahead of time and the sparse wild edibles that are available in the winter. It wont take the criminal element long to start gathering food from those who DID prepare. The bottom line is this: I need to be able to collect enough wild edibles to sustain my family and myself through the winter. I could probably do that for myself, but for a family of five...I just don't have the skills I need for the above scenario. And that's frustrating...

I own several survival guides and wild edibles books and have all but memorized them. Any tips?

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Well I'm in the planning stage of my
BOB and while I was sittin there I got to thinking about ALL of my gear being in one bag, I don't really like that idea. What would I do if I lost the bag or it was stolen? Would it be smarter for me to plan maybe a bug outfit? If I have durable pants/jacket etc with many pockets would that be smarter for storing things like compasses, weapons, minor provisions. Then I could store the bigger necessities in my bag and not have to worry about losing my whole entire world in one bag. Example being the knife I have, it also has a compass, flint, matches, blade sharpener, needle, string all in the handle. It would all be gone if the knife was taken/dropped/lost.