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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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    • 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
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Category: self reliance

Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021

Win by Buying Food from Your Local Farm

Posted on December 27, 2020December 27, 2020

Save Money by Preserving Food and Laugh at the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted on December 22, 2020December 22, 2020

Beans, Bullets & Band Aids – Take Time to be Resilient

Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

Normalcy Bias – Be Aware of It, Make Better Decisions

Posted on October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

Preparing for Difficult Times – Resilient Communities

Posted on July 12, 2020July 12, 2020

Choosing Your First Firearm

Posted on May 11, 2020May 22, 2020

Chickens – First Day out of the Shell

Here is what it looks like when they first start hatching. They start out very tired from the ordeal of hatching, then quickly get very active. These videos were taken over a 24 hour period. When the last eggs hatched there was a lot of activity!

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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

  • Planting Prickly Pear Cactus
  • 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

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 Tuesday — November 4, 2025 November 4, 2025
    November 4, 1841: The first emigrant wagon train arrived in California after a five-and-a-half-month, 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from Missouri. This was the Bartleson–Bidwell Party. John Bidwell’s mansion property (pictured above, before the destructive December, 2024 fire) is now a state park. — November 4th is the birthday of Medal of Honor […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • From Unprepared to Prepped – A Beginner’s Guide – Part 1, by Mr. Wobbet November 4, 2025
    Introduction When thinking of what a “prepper” might look like, I am quite far from your expectations. I am an avid indoorsman who enjoys watching television and having stuff delivered. I am not a gardener, a camper, a hunter, or an adventurer. I don’t have anything against those things, it’s just not who I am. […]
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  • SurvivalBlog’s News From The American Redoubt November 4, 2025
    A Special Editor’s Note:  This will be the last regular News From The American Redoubt column.  Because so many news outlets have put their content behind paywalls, it has become increasingly difficult to assemble this column.  It will be replaced by a new weekly item: American Redoubt Media of the Week.  That will typically be […]
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  • The Editors’ Quote of the Day: November 4, 2025
    “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.” – John Adams The post The Editors’ Quote of the Day: appeared first on […]
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  • Preparedness Notes for Monday — November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025
    On November 3, 1917, the price of U.S. postage stamps was raised to 3 cents per ounce. — November 3, 1917: Flooding from a tropical storm killed 84 people in the Winooski River Valley, Vermont. Several flood control dams were eventually constructed, to prevent a similar disaster. — And November 3, 1987, Gordon Gould was […]
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The Survival Podcast

  • Understanding Disease Resistant Vegetable Varieties – TSP Rewind – Epi-304
  • Twelve Overlooked Vegetables for the Garden – TSP Rewind – Epi-303
  • Planning Your Future When the Future is Uncertain – TSP Rewind – Epi-302
  • Expert Council Q&A – Epi-3756
  • Blood in the Streets, History Repeats – Epi-3575

Amateur Radio Weekly

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  • By: Robert Lovell

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  • brainwriting
  • camping
  • car camping
  • cert
  • communications plan
  • covid-19
  • design
  • design thinking
  • development
  • engineering
  • family camping
  • farmstead
  • food security
  • gardening
  • glamping
  • homestead
  • ID
  • industrial design
  • innovation
  • intern
  • lean
  • lean manufacturing
  • made local
  • mechanical engineer
  • mechanical engineering
  • montie design
  • montie gear
  • Montie Roland
  • morrisville
  • NC
  • overlanding
  • permaculture
  • prepping
  • Product Design
  • prototype
  • raleigh
  • rtp
  • rtp product development guild
  • self-reliance
  • slingshot
  • sls
  • social media
  • spring creek
  • y-shot
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