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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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    • Portfolio – Pool Products
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    • Portfolio – Consumer Products
    • Portfolio – Furniture
    • Portfolio – Paintball Equipment
    • Portfolio – Consumer Machines / Attic Lift
    • Portfolio – Ultralight Survival Knife
    • Portfolio – Electronic Enclosures and Rackmount Equipment
    • Portfolio – Slingshots
    • Portfolio – Firearms Accessories
  • Brainstorming Events
    • Church Men’s Group Brainstorming Session
    • Starting Our Journey – Developing Our CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Next Step – Getting Ready for Brainwriting – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Brainstorming! – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Brainstorming Results – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Rough Draft – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
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Month: May 2021

Posted on May 23, 2021May 23, 2021

Homestead vs. In-stead – rightsizing the the project helps it succeed!

Recent Posts

  • Planting Trees on the Farm – Good Times December 24, 2024
  • Helping Out in Hot Springs After Helene and Camping on Troublesome Gap November 9, 2024
  • Let Us Race October 27, 2024
  • Damage from Hurricane Helene in WNC October 13, 2024
  • Designing a Gift Basket October 1, 2024
  • Western NC Hurricane Damage Update September 29, 2024
  • Farm and Forest – Digital Detox at Its Finest August 25, 2024
  • Digital Detox June 25, 2024
  • Scenes While Just Mowing the Grass April 21, 2024
  • Chapter 4 – Importance of Traditions March 28, 2024

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Forward Observer

  • Economic Early Warning Report for Friday, 17 October 2025
  • Congressional Research Service Reports on MS-13 and M-18
  • Economic Early Warning for Friday, 12 September 2025
  • Radar: Counter-Organize and Win
  • Radar: Counter-Organizing Meeting

Simply Us Farm

  • Learn to Grow and Prune Berries and Fruit Trees Event
  • Digital Detox | Butterflies on Lantana
  • Cactus Incoming | Flowers Blooming
  • Keeping Young Trees Happy | Beautyberries Coming
  • Digital Detox – Seen While Mowing Grass

RSS NCRenegade.com

  • All Good Things
  • Who Had Foreknowledge of 9/11?
  • Be Vigilant
  • Our Fight Ahead
  • An Update
  • No Mercy: Woke Leftists Are The Problem And They Need To Go
  • Tucker Faces UNHINGED Reaction To Speech At Kirk Memorial
  • How Can We Amicably Separate?
  • Civil War Commencing
  • TDS: Pregnant Liberal Will Die from Tylenol

RSS SurvivalBlog

  • Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — October 22, 2025 October 22, 2025
    On October 22, 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected President of the Republic of Texas. — On October 22, 1934, infamous criminal Charles (“Pretty Boy”) Floyd was fatally shot in a field near East Liverpool, Ohio, by FBI agents. — On October 22, 1797, André-Jacques Garnerin, an inspector in the French army […]
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  • Loaves, Fishes, Tree Bark, Seeds, and Knowledge – Part 3, by The Chemical Engineer October 22, 2025
    (Continued from Part 2.) 2.3 – Finding Edible Cambium Locally And Harvesting It If we live in an area with a sufficient number of trees, the next step would be to find out which ones have edible cambium. To accomplish this I recommend two sources. First, you would need to buy the National Audubon Society’s […]
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  • SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets October 22, 2025
    Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Europe, Ukraine prepare 12-point proposal to end […]
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  • Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — October 21, 2025 October 21, 2025
    On October 21, 1520, Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reached Cape Virgenes after transiting the Strait of Magellan between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, thus becoming the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific. — October 21, 1803: English scientist John Dalton read his paper “On the Absorption of Gases by Water and Other […]
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The Survival Podcast

  • Global Digital ID & School Surveillance – Epi-3751
  • The Best Christmas Gift You’ll Ever Bring Home
  • Olitans T010 Folding Titanium Scalpel – Item of the Day
  • The Journey from Grasshopper to Ant – Epi-3750
  • Dropping the Denominator – Epi-3749

Amateur Radio Weekly

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  • By: Robert Lovell

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