Thirty six years ago our lives changed. We didn’t have a big bank account but we had discovered wheat.
Driving home from our “pick up point” with our two little boys, we felt blessed, protected and, yes, prepared.
This was the beginning of our journey as participants in the prepping arena. The peace that those sacks of golden wheat berries brought was immeasurable. We couldn’t protect our little family from everything, but we could protect them from something every parent fears. Hunger.
Now, so many years later, we’re still buying wheat. The difference now is that our grown-up sons have learned skills in the kitchen, bread making, canning fruit, as well as taking care of the chickens and Mollie Moo our cow, and so many other life skills from their father to include carpentry, plumbing, and on and on. We were not country-born, so all of these experiences hinged on one thing at the very start. Wheat.
Without that wheat so many years ago, illustrating very clearly what was important for my families’ temporal survival and peace of mind, I fear we could have been caught, now, this day, with only a small portion of what prepping has given us – independence.
I just LOVE self-reliance!
G.M.
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Comments
Wheat is the starting place...and it's a challenge for someone who has to for health reasons eat gluten free. But it can be done. Your family is blessed.