Author: Bryan Moats
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Enduro is coming. I think I’ll go slang hunting
One of my favorite memories of cycling in the 80’s and 90’s was listening to the lingo my dad and his cycling buddies would use while on the road or just hanging out. You may ride a “tricked out” bike but don’t be a “half-wheeler”. Check before you fire your “snot-rocket”. You’re going to “bonk”…
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Turning the Car Around in Your Great Grandmother’s Cemetary
Watch our new video below, featuring the reading of one of Meredith’s Patreon posts. I love this peaceful, thoughtful narrative. It is such a nice break from the intensity of pretty much everything else on YouTube. Meredith, if you didn’t already know, is a writer and a former host and producer of Saturday Ozarks at…
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Books & Biscuits: The Prepper’s Water Survival Guide
As an Bookshop.org Affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. This post contains affiliate links, meaning if you click through and buy the book, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you are anything like us, you’ve been looking out at the trees lately and noticing something feels a little off.…
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Annual Lady Beetle Post
It won’t be long before it is super invasive Asian Lady Beetle season again here in Arkansas. In a few months they’ll start coming inside and staying there. They’ll be everywhere. We’ve written about Lady Beetles before, about how they invade every year, in both of the SSTP houses. But this time, I’m coming for…
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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.…