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A Survival Harvesting Lifestyle

This site discusses what you need to do to develop a survival harvesting lifestyle so that you, your family

and your community can survive and thrive no matter what happens. This is my simple goal. Harvesting means collecting what is available in a systematic way. It also means foraging from nature.  Collecting what is naturally occurring was the original method of harvesting. We talk about taking action to improve nature’s abundance. Similar to humankind’s first attempts at agriculture. Helping nature has a history going back thousands of years. If it didn’t work, we might not be here today.

Much of what has been written in the past about survival has focused on wilderness situations. Most of us don’t spend time in the wilderness. Survival has also been looked at in a narrow sense. Survival is discussed as something that happens after you get lost, or after your plane crashes, or a boat sinks and you become stranded on an island. Survival also has to happen everyday, in the cities and suburbs. People lose a job or are injured or sick and can’t work for extended periods. People are faced with financial difficulties whether they have a job or not. People or families are faced with the loss of a loved one, and their lives are disrupted. Natural disasters continue to happen, and you might be forced to deal with surviving in your home for weeks at a time until utilities are brought back on stream. Any of these things can happen, and are far more likely to happen than massive financial disruption, an asteroid strike, a fatal pandemic, a civilization disrupting solar storm or an EMP attack. The good news is that by practicing survival harvesting techniques that allow us to deal with these more common situations, we are going a long way to preparing for the more wide ranging scenarios.

Survival Harvesting Books

I started this site to support the publication of a series of “survival harvesting” books. The first, “Survival Fish Harvesting,” is now available on Amazon as a softcover or Kindle download. Future books will look at water, trees, shrubs and plants, as well as small game and birds. My fish book simply examines various ways to harvest the fish. Future efforts in this series will explore managing the environment to ensure a more plentiful supply of the harvest. I discuss illegal techniques in “Survival Fish Harvesting.” They are illegal in most jurisdictions. They are only meant to be used in survival situations. Some of the techniques are legal in certain areas. Many are illegal with certain species. There are some that are illegal during certain seasons. It is up to you to determine the legal applicability of any of these techniques to your area. This site is for educational purposes only..