Author: Bryan Moats
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Looking for the Weeds: Keeping Our Timeline Real
I know this is two posts in one day but I’ve had it up to somewhere around here 🫡 with the SSTP FB and Insta timeline being full of AI generated posts from “farms” and “gardens” and “prepper” targeted ads. The sexy ones are absolutely obnoxious but even the so-styled wholesome and pastoral posts push…
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Spreading Mulch, Building Sponge (Take Two): Our Paid Workday is Back On!
Well, river valley friends, the sky had other plans for us last weekend. If there’s one thing a garden teaches you pretty quickly, it’s that the weather runs the show. We can’t control that and I believe it was Marcus Aurelius who said, “Get over it, Bryan.” No? But the heat is still coming, our…
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Spreading Mulch, Building Sponge
Join Us for a Paid Workday This Saturday! If you’ve been wanting to see permaculture and food forest principles in action—or if you just want to spend a Saturday evening doing some grounded, community-focused work—we’d love to have you out at the Truck Patch. This Saturday, July 11th, we are hosting a hands-on community workday…
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The Greenhouse Oven and Victory by Proxy
There is a distinct kind of bait-and-switch in the way we plan for spring versus how the season actually plays out. Spring is capricious—it builds up your hopes with cool, gentle mornings where you play bouncy, soft reggae by Bluetooth (just me?) engendering a unquestioned trust in the earth and its intentions for you, your…
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The Sensory Archive of Resilience
When we talk about community preparedness, as we tend to do around here 😂, it could be incredibly easy to slide into the language of stark utility. We count calories, calculate the storage life of dry beans, map out regional water security, and analyze the raw architecture of basic survival. This is hard, practical work,…
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Creating the Ideal Chicken Wonderland at SSTP Farm
This is part of this week’s chicken series. We’re dispensing a smidge of advice, but mostly swapping stories and gathering ideas. Join in and let us know your experiences in the comments below! Find the rest of Chicken Week at Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Meredith and I have always wanted to create a Chicken Wonderland.…
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Are Chickens Worth It? Exploring a Few Pros and Cons
This week we are talking about chickens! I’m pretty tired from a full day of, well, all the things, so without going on at length as per usual, I wanted to let you all know we’re focusing on chickens this week, which I’ve already done, so more specifically I’m asking: Why does Sulphur Springs Truck…
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Reflecting on Go Bag Week: Lessons Learned
Well, Go Bag Week has come to a close. I had a heck of a time chatting it up with you all. But I mostly proved in real time what I already suspected: That I can not keep up with an event like that without undoing my normal routine, such as it is. While I…
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Budget-Friendly Go-Bag Essentials for Everyone
This photo is of a sleeping Desto, SSTP’s most potato-like dog. He is not a go bag. But is more interesting to look at than one, and thus he gets to be the blog post photo today. In an increasingly unpredictable world, being prepared isn’t just a hobby—it’s a necessity. On Day 4 of Go…
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Essential Documents for Your Go Bag
It’s day three of Go Bag week! I hope you caught our bag and list posts. If not, check them out. And be sure to download our Individual Go Bag Checklist for free (or pay what you want!) Every dollar helps us keep making community preparedness content, workshops with people smarter than us, feed wayward…