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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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    • Montie Gear Catalog
    • Sustainability at Montie Gear
    • Simply Us Farm
    • Camp at Troublesome Gap
    • Portfolio – Pool Products
    • Portfolio – Camping and Outdoor Equipment
    • 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
  • Blog
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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

  • Enjoying Time on the Farm November 2, 2025
  • 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

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Forward Observer

  • The Most Consequential Year Since 2000
  • 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

Simply Us Farm

  • Transforming the Back Field
  • Making Agave Happy
  • Planting Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Learn to Grow and Prune Berries and Fruit Trees Event
  • Digital Detox | Butterflies on Lantana

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 Friday — December 12, 2025 December 12, 2025
    On December 12, 1897, Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, was founded. — December 12, 2019: The British General Election was won by Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in a landslide win with 80-seat majority. Scottish National Party also wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland. — Today’s feature is a guest post from […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Update: Tracking The Silver Bull Market — Key Channels and Fractals, by Hubert Moolman December 12, 2025
    Editor’s Introductory Note:  Today’s short feature post is from our friend Hub Moolman, in South Africa. Hub’s analysis includes two very useful charts. While I don’t rely on technical analysis, I do find that it often provides useful confirmation for the study of market fundamentals. For the big market traders, the current silver market seems […]
    SurvivalBlog Contributor
  • Economics & Investing Media of the Week December 12, 2025
    In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. H.L. suggested a graphic derived from data from the IMF World Economic Outlook produced by Visual Capitalist that depicts aggregate world debt, by country, in 2025. The darker the color, the higher […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: December 12, 2025
    “The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations, you’re going to be miserable your whole life. You want to have reasonable expectations and take life’s results, good and bad, as they happen with a certain amount of stoicism.” – The Late Berkshire Hathaway Fund Manager Charlie Munger The […]
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  • Preparedness Notes for Thursday — December 11, 2025 December 11, 2025
    On December 11, 1282 Llywelyn ab Gruffydd, the last native and independent Prince of Wales, was killed at the Battle of Orewin Bridge at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, south Wales by forces of Edward I of England. Llywelyn reigned from 1259 and is known as Llywelyn the Last. — December 11,1602: A surprise attack by […]
    James Wesley Rawles

The Survival Podcast

  • Expert Council Q&A – Epi-3774
  • My Life and Work by Henry Ford – Item of the Day
  • Jeff Burkinshaw on Living Like a Millionaire Off Grid – Epi-3773
  • Syantek Remote Control Light Switch Kit – Item of the Day
  • Are We the Last Free Generation – Epi-3772

Amateur Radio Weekly

  • By: Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 338 • AmateurRadio.com
  • By: Robert Lovell

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  • design thinking
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  • farmstead
  • food security
  • gardening
  • glamping
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  • ID
  • industrial design
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  • lean manufacturing
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  • prototype
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