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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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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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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

  • Economic Early Warning for Friday, 20 February 2026
  • Economic Early Warning for Friday, 09 January 2026
  • 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

Simply Us Farm

  • Wow – Iris Are Beautiful
  • Mind Maps on the Farm
  • Blooms are Here!
  • Paw Paws and Berries – Planted
  • Fences are Hard Work

RSS NCRenegade.com

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  • How Can We Amicably Separate?
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  • TDS: Pregnant Liberal Will Die from Tylenol
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RSS SurvivalBlog

  • Preparedness Notes for Thursday — May 7, 2026 May 7, 2026
    On May 7, 1697, Stockholm’s medieval royal castle was destroyed by fire. The Codex Gigas (pictured) — the world’s largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) — survived by being thrown out a window. — May 7, 1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patented dynamite in England. This was the first of three patents he would receive for […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Learning From Our Fire Drill, by A.F. May 7, 2026
    On a January evening earlier this year, I walked around the corner from our kitchen towards the bathroom and smelled smoke. My wife had just returned home from a meeting and I had spent most of the afternoon juicing frozen plums saved from last fall. I ask my wife if there was a wood smoke […]
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  • The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods May 7, 2026
    SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative […]
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  • The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: May 7, 2026
    “Taxing is much like plucking a goose. It is the art of getting the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.” – Republican Presidential candidate Robert Dole, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal, 16 December, 1983. The post The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.
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  • Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — May 6, 2026 May 6, 2026
    On May 6, 1837, US blacksmith John Deere made the first steel plough, in Grand Detour, Illinois. — May 6, 1851: Linus Yale Jr. patented the Yale cylinder lock. — You may already own a SIEGE Stove or a SIEGE Belt from SIEGE Survival. (One of our loyal advertisers.)  I just heard that they’ve added the […]
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The Survival Podcast

  • Transforming Boys Into Anti-Fragile Men – Epi-3841
  • Gilmour PRO Commercial Hose – Item of the Day
  • First Tuesday Coffee Chat with John, Jack & Nicole – Epi-3840
  • Ten Traits of This Decade’s Winners – Epi-3839
  • Energizer Power Failure Lights – Item of the Day

Amateur Radio Weekly

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  • By: Robert Lovell

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  • car camping
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  • 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
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  • permaculture
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  • prototype
  • raleigh
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  • rtp product development guild
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  • sls
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  • y-shot
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