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Mega-list of liberal & leftist prepper-relevant creators (created with input from this amazing sub)
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Mega-list of liberal & leftist prepper-relevant creators (created with input from this amazing sub)

A couple of months ago, I asked the sub for folks' favorite liberal & leftist prepper-relevant content and was so grateful to receive a GOLDMINE of input. I meant to turn it into a cohesive list but got overwhelmed with some unexpected farmstead infrastructure emergencies and then, well, ADHD got the better of me. (Y'all know how it goes.)

Anyway!...I finally made the mega-list from the comments! If anyone seeing this for the first time has anything to add, please do share in the comments. I haven't verified all of these myself but I'm in the process of doing so; it's like, months and months of content. :D

Also, someone in the original post commented (in a supportive way) that maybe I should be making this kind of content. Grateful for the encouragement - thank you, internet friend! - but I kinda hate being on camera, lol. I do have a Substack, and also steward an online co-learning / social / mutual aid community for liberal & leftist homesteaders, farmers, and gardeners...but I don't think I'm allowed to share specific info about either of those things due to Rule #8 of this sub. But if the Mods ever have a community self-promo day or mega-thread or something like that, I'm happy to share then. IMHO, I would kind of love that so I can find more TwoXPreppers members to support myself.

Annnyyyywayyy...thank y'all for your amazing input, and without further ado...

Here's the mega-list of liberal & leftist prepper-relevant creators! (Let's make it EVEN MORE MEGA if we can!)

Podcasts

  • Live Like the World Is Dying
  • It Could Happen Here
  • Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
  • The Poor Proles Almanac (also has a newsletter, I think)
  • Propaganda By the Seed 
  • How to Survive the End of the World 
  • Cramming for the Apocalypse
  • The Great Simplification
  • Urban Lady Prepper
  • Talking in Spirals
  • Growers Daily (also has a YouTube)

YouTube

  • Edible Acres (Sean Dembrosky) - permaculture, upstate NY
  • Belle of the Ranch / second channel The Roads with Belle 
  • InRange TV - gun content, explicitly anti-right-wing
  • Squid Tips - motorcycles, anti-police/ICE, urban activism
  • Queer Armorer
  • American Resiliency - climate outlook/prep by state
  • Sustainable Prepping
  • Primrose Permaculture
  • Black Flag Civilian
  • Gardening in Canada
  • Abby Verigin
  • RoseRed Homestead 
  • FarmingWhileBeige
  • Shawn Grows (politics may be unconfirmed?)
  • Sutton's Daze (politics may be unconfirmed?)
  • Jacob Cochrane / Dirtbag America (also on Facebook/Instagram)
  • FoxyCabbage https://m.youtube.com/@FoxyCabbage-o5y

Instagram

  • thezenhenandthehoneybee
  • daniellekirkxx
  • theshabbycreekcottage 
  • livingplanetfriendly 
  • lexiskitchengarden (politics unconfirmed, perhaps?)
  • north.ridge.farm (fellow NEK of VT resident, baybeeee!)
  • Toni Farmer's Garden 
  • blackforager - wild edibles/foraging (also on YouTube)

Blogs / Substacks / Written

  • HydroponicTrash - DIY solar/tech/off-grid resilience, now at blog.hydroponictrash.solar
  • Bill Fulton, Prepare to Survive & Thrive (book - by a fellow Vermonter!)
  • Margaret Killjoy's Birds Before the Storm Substack
u/peachboot828 — 2 days ago
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Howdy fellow bee-lovers!

Since last year, we've had a prolific community of ground-dwelling bees occupying a sunny slope on the south side of our house in Zone 4b (Northeastern Vermont). We're grateful to have them as pollinators since we have a small farmstead. They never bother me when I'm out watering plants; in fact, some of them come to perch on my arm and will drink from a droplet of water on my finger.

However, we have a hellish new issue: our home - and mostly the ground floor south side of our home, near the bees - has become infested with what we believe are pavement ants. Sandy soil mixture (like what one might see at the top of an ant hill) is literally being pushed through small cracks in the slab of our daylight basement, and from the area underneath baseboard heaters. We fear the ants are in the walls; we've seen them in droves on the floor and kill them when we see them, but they keep coming back. We have to work with an exterminator to get rid of these ants because our best home remedies simply aren't working.

As a regenerative farmstead, we're obviously hoping to do the lowest-intervention thing that will let us reclaim our home from these ants...but we're worried that even the most bee-conscious exterminators are going to say that the bees need to be relocated to protect them from whatever has to be used to get rid of these ants.

I'm hoping y'all can help me identify this specific type of ground-dwelling bee, and also share any wisdom y'all might have about how to relocate ground-dwelling bees in a way that is safe for them (if it's even possible). We're not rich folks - quite the opposite - so we're worried that we're going to have to empty our savings to save these bees. Please help! Any constructive advice is most welcome. Thank you.

https://reddit.com/link/1szvlxs/video/or0k2ydxtbyg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1szvlxs/video/ucjh7rdxtbyg1/player

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u/peachboot828 — 2 months ago