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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

  • Portfolio
    • 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
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Tag: prepping

Posted on July 25, 2021July 25, 2021

Why Are There So Many Angry and Frustrated People?

This videos explains why

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

Get Ready for Difficult Times: Stay Fit!

Posted on January 31, 2021January 31, 2021

Build Good Soil Now – Buy Seeds Now – Start Plants

Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021

Win by Buying Food from Your Local Farm

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

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

  • Honey Locust Need Love Too
  • Transforming the Back Field
  • Making Agave Happy
  • Planting Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Learn to Grow and Prune Berries and Fruit Trees Event

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 — January 6, 2026 January 6, 2026
    January 6, 1799 was the birthday of Jedediah Strong Smith, one of America’s greatest trapper-explorers. He was born in Bainbridge, New York. Smith explored a huge area of the American West during his short life. “He began his western voyages in 1822, when he joined the pioneering fur trader William Ashley on a trip up […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Lessons From a Fight at a Restaurant, by Robert E. Downing January 6, 2026
    (The photo above, courtesy of Openverse, was taken by “Terren in Virginia“, a witness to a 2008 baseball team “fan rivalry” brawl at a New York sports stadium.) The following is what I learned about security at lunch one day: Scenario One Tuesday, about six weeks ago, I stopped for a late lunch at a […]
    SurvivalBlog Contributor
  • SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week January 6, 2026
    This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. The photo above was shot from the east side of the Snake River Canyon. The United States Congress designated the Hells Canyon Wilderness […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: January 6, 2026
    “Without sovereignty, a nation cannot exist. Without borders, it can’t be defined or protected.” – Geert Wilders The post The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Preparedness Notes for Monday — January 5, 2026 January 5, 2026
    On January 5, 1477, the Battle of Nancy (now in France) was won by the Lorraine-Swiss forces led by René II, Duke of Lorraine. More than 7,000 Burgundians were killed, including Duke Charles The Bold. Thus ended the Burgundian Wars and the Burgundian State. — On January 5, 1914, industrialist Henry Ford announced his $5 […]
    James Wesley Rawles

The Survival Podcast

  • First Tuesday Coffee Chat with John & Nicole – Epi-3782
  • Don’t Fight Fair, Fight to Win – Epi-3781
  • Hamilton Beach 3-in-1 Electric Egg Cooker – Item of the Day
  • The Survival Podcast Christmas Special 2024 – Epi-3780
  • Live Free in an Unfree World – Epi-3779

Amateur Radio Weekly

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

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  • brainstorming
  • 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
  • Portfolio
  • Brainstorming Events
  • Blog
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  • Resume
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