This is pioneering today with Uppercadget's own Melissa K. Norris,

inspiring your faith and your pioneer route here in the beautiful North Cascade Mountains

on KSVU 90.1 Community Radio.

Hi, this is Melissa K. Norris on pioneering today.

And on today's episode, we're going to be talking on part two on our tips for survival and preparedness for emergency situation.

So I hope you caught part one. If you didn't get a chance to listen to part one and you'd like to, you can go to Melissa canorris.com and on the top of the screen there's a little button that says podcast.

And if you click on podcast, then it will bring up all of the previous episodes and you can

listen to those whenever you want at your convenience. So you can catch up on part one there.

So we left off before we were talking about one of the things you need to be prepared is on medicine, having some

medicinal things with herbs or prescriptions, that kind of a thing. So the next thing that I kind of

move into talking about emergency preparedness

without electricity, or, you know, they call it, you may have heard the term off grid.

So that basically means where you're not dependent upon the power company or, you know,

the traditional things on the grid, so to speak. So, you know, grocery stores, that kind of, you know, the traditional things on the grid, so to speak.

So, you know, grocery stores, that kind of, you know, the mainstream of all that was cut off for whatever reason.

So one of the things that really helps you to be self-sufficient and on preparedness for that is going to be having your own food supply and not just food storage,

but a way to replenish that food storage.

So for vegetables and fruits, that would be growing it yourself.

So that would be home gardening.

So what I want you think is what if the grid went down, you know, for whatever reason,

for months, not just weeks, but for months or for even years, down, you know, for whatever reason, for months, not just weeks,

but for months or for even years, like, you know, worst case scenario, when springtime rolled

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