essex preppers

[essexsurvivor]

hi I am just starting my journey in to prepping and bush craft. I was wondering if any one had some beginner's tips to get me started .I am located near Chelmsford Essex I am looking for a local place to forage if any one got some ideas

[preppingsu]

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Hello and welcome. Have a read of the above post - Top Tips for New Preppers.

Foraging can happen anywhere.
Get a copy of

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-For-Free-C ... 0007183038

This is great for starters. Take a map out with you at all times and note on it where you see fruit trees etc

[essexsurvivor]

Thank you for link will order book on pay day.there are so many topics for beginners to look at could u recommend a good area to start.

[Arzosah]

Hello essex prepper.

I'll tell you where to start: with a deep breath and a cuppa tea. Seriously. Sit down when you have at least an hour, and look around the forum. Have a think about what you're concerned about, what might need prepping, cover the ordinary stuff first: a power cut, a burst water main, snow or flooding. Do you have kids? How would you cook in a power cut? What would you drink? Buy a couple of cans of stuff you like every time you go shopping, a packet of lentils, something like that, and let your food stocks build up a bit.

Water, easy cook food, a camping stove, a couple of torches, a first aid kit. Have a think about what you've already got under those headings.

[pseudonym]

Hello and welcome to the Forum.

[tigs]

welcome to the forum

[Wulfshead]

Hello and welcome Essesurvivour
Basically Arzosah hits the nail on the head.
Spend a month looking at the forum and perhaps then, if you are still interested in prepping, we could get a few of the Essex preppers together.
It is a subject dear to me so I applaud one who takes the first step and as such it's good to chuck ideas about in informal public settings.
I think the first thing to realise is that should you be given 1000 years to prep you, nor anyone else, will ever be 100 % satisfied that you have all boxes fully ticked.

Are you prepping solo or for a family ?, and what is your main reason why you now feel the need to prep.

Get among the threads and don't be worried if something you ask/post is replied in a way which you may consider slightly negative. We all here share the same base instinct, the ethos of the forum seems to be to help hone our skills to best succeed in that instinctual drive.

Once again, welcome.

Wulfshead

[azandgilluk]

well we are zone 4 essex as well glad we are not the only ones in essex

we had a good read all round before we thought aboutr what preps we wanted but we decided on most things apart from the outrageous rubbish like zombies god etc etc

[Wulfshead]

I like to think that the term 'Zombies' relates to the brain-dead attitude of people that think a SHTF scenario can never nor ever will happen to them or those around them.
I like to think those same mocking people will be the ones that are running around like zombies on speed witnessing that their world hitting the skids and having to try to be 'all right Jack the lad' in a scenario that they have absolutely no grasp of the fundamentals post SHTF.

The Zombie in my mind is the person who can not see the detriment creeping in because reality TV is Oh so much worthy of thought time.

Wulfshead

[azandgilluk]

yea thats right the actual zombies are those who have not prepped and are scavages hunting for food eating human flesh when we have ran out of food or lack of food they turn to canaballism