| Community Needs |
| The Land Human Resources Needed Physical Resources Needed Livestock Needed Short Term Stock Pile Supplies |
This is list intended to get us to think about what a community may need to stockpile, so the list is constantly growing. Please feel free to suggest items. We will be soon acquiring a sea going container to stockpile much of this material. Ideally, it would be stockpiled in different places on the community land, but since we are not on the land yet we are making due.
Food or Food Preparation
- Food: dried beans, rice, flour, sugar, cornmeal, salt, baking power, baking soda, spices, yeast, etc…
- Food Storage: Crocks, Canning Jars, lids, corks, bottle caps, large boiling pots, thermometers, cheese cloth, wax, everything needed
- Exotic Spices that will not grow here…cinnamon, vanilla,etc…
- Sea Salt and learn how to extract it from sea water (book on hand)
- Flour, Sugar, Salt, Baking power, yeast, (whatever can be stored for a reasonable period)
- Cast Iron pans of all assortments. Dutch ovens, etc…
- Wood burning stove, with replacement parts
- Fire, Source of illumination, flint & steel, matches, lighters, magnifying glass, Oil lamps, all extra parts including oil and wicks, Candles, wax, wicks, candle molds, etc..
- Devices: butter churn, apple peeler, cabbage cutter, cheese press, pressure canner, cider press
- Sanitation: anti-bacterial soaps, scrup pads, copper and stainless steel scouring pads, natural sponges
Agriculture
Horse Drawn Equipment (please contribute if you farm w/horses)
- Horse drawn riding cultivator
- Cutting Sickle Mower
- Hay fluffer/Tedder
- Hay Rake
- Clod Buster
- Grain Drills
- Ground Rollers
- Dump Rake
- Horse Drawn Carts
- Scraper, potato plow, spring tine harrow 3 point attachments
- Manure Spreader
- Spare cultivator tines, disk hillers,
General Farm Equipment
- Corn Shellers
- Corn Driers
- Pedal Driven Grinder
- Greene Bone Cutter (grinder)
- still adding…
Sustainable Greenhouses
- Irrigation systems
- glass
Herbal Medicine
- Bottles, jars, lids, ziploc bags (over lap with kitchen supplies)
- Tripled distilled vodka, pure grain ETOH, Brandy
- Olive, …Oils for extraction
- Muslin, cheese clothe
- Witch Hazel
- Herb press
- graduated cylinders
- Strainers, funnels, grinder, mortal & pedestal,etc…
Doctor/Physician (health care professionals please contribute)
- Stockpile of the following medicines
- Aspirin
- Antibiotics, including sulpha drugs (will last longer)
- Hydrogen Peroxide, LOTS of iodine,
- Antibiotic creams
- Cotton bandage hermetically sealed
- Suture needles and stitching
- Splits, crutches, compression bandages,
Hardware
Twine, string, Rope, wire, all cordage. Antique cordage maker.
Nails, screws
WIRE… Hardware cloth, Chicken wire, screen, gardening wire, barbed wire, t-poles, etc…
Lubricating oil, neats foot oil,
PVC, fittings, cleaner and glues for plumbing
55 gallon drums, metal and plastic
Large plastic water tanks 5000 gallon
5 gallon plastic buckets
Pulleys, hoist, etc..
Galvanized Metal water cans, chicken feeders, waters, tubs
Tools
Hammers
ladders
Shovels, picks, hoes, rakes, replacement handles
Crosscut wood saws for firewood cutting. Chainsaws of course, but need to learn to make alternate fuel.
Tree saws, pruners, trimmers
Machete, axes, mauls, etc…
Sharpening stones
Wire cutters
Pliers…all types
Hog rings and pliers (or J-claps and rings0
Leather working tools, tanning hides, need book
Hunting & Fishing Supplies
FISH HOOKS…lots of them…different sizes
Fish line…lots of it
Cross bow and arrows. Several for hunting and defense
Hunting knife with case for wearing on hip
Guns and ammo
Clothing/Linens
Foot powered sewing machine
Lots of thread and needles
Yarn
Tons of Cotton sheets for many uses
Lots of pairs of jeans
Overalls
BOOTS…leather
Belts
Human Mechanized machinery
Grinding wheel for sharpening tools
Washing machine
Bicycles!!! And spare parts like tires
Personal Hygiene and cleaning
Washboards, soaps
Clothes pins, line, basket and wire
Laundry soap, bleach, bluing agent
Straight razor (old fashioned kind) with leather strap
Modern razor and blades
Tons of toothpaste
Defense and Predator Control
Guns, ammo, re-loaders, etc…
knives, sharping stones
animal traps
mouse traps
Building Materials
Lumber (all types)
Library