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How to Start Seedlings using the Pre-sprout Method

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Everyone knows the drill - put the seed in the ground, cover it with dirt, keep it watered, and eventually you see that little sprout poking it's way up out of the soil.  Hopefully.  As many folks know, this doesn't always happen. Rookie and seasoned gardeners alike can attest to the fact that many seeds are sown, never to be seen or heard from again.  A seed can fail to sprout for a variety of reasons. First, most seeds fall within a range of 50% to 85% germination rate. That means at least 15 out of every 100 seeds are duds, sometimes up to 50 out of 100.  After you weed out the duds (puns are grand, right?) the remaining seeds need exactly the right temperature, moisture, and light (or lack thereof) to initiate the sprouting process. It's been done this way for centuries, but honestly, it's highly inefficient. And frankly, leaves too much up to chance for me. I like to be in control!  This is where pre-sprouting comes in, and it will change your life, just like it c
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3 Days - How long you can survive without this

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3 days. The human body can survive, on average, 3 days without drinking water. After that short amount of time, a human's flesh begins to turn gray, organs begin to fail and brain function begins to shut down. You can stock up on all the food you could ever need, all the supplies required to start fire, and tools and equipment to build shelter; but if you don't have a stockpile of drinking water or a reliable source to get it from, you have 3 days to live.   Water is the single most important item needed for survival, and yet the most forgotten and most overlooked by many. Whether you're preparing for a few days with electricity or bracing for the apocalypse, put water right at the very top of your list.  But how much? It is recommended to store one gallon of water for every person in your house, per day. Now you just have to decide, how many days do you want to prepare for? A good goal to aim for is 2 weeks. So for a family of 4, that's only 56 gallons. Drums like thes
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What is "Wicked Prepared" ???

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  What being "Wicked Prepared" means to us …. The alert has gone out to every man, woman, and child: stay inside, shelter in place, do not leave your home. Sound familiar?  What is it this time? A pandemic? A tornado? An ice storm? A nuclear attack?  You never truly know what it could be, or what will come next. But for each of these scenarios, there are steps you can take to make sure you and your family are prepared. Or as we like to say in Maine, Wicked Prepared!  Being Wicked Prepared is more than just remembering to get bread and milk the day before a big snowstorm. It's more than having a few jugs of water and some extra batteries in the basement. Being Wicked Prepared is thinking about situations that could arise and developing solutions before they impact you. It's about making a plan and setting goals so that you're able to be prepared for tomorrow but still live your life to the fullest today. It's about Yankee ingenuity (more about that in a future
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