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Montie Roland, NPDP

Montie Roland, NPDP

Gentleman Farmer, Engineer and Extreme Innovator / Brainstormer

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    • Portfolio – Ultralight Survival Knife
    • Portfolio – Electronic Enclosures and Rackmount Equipment
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    • Starting Our Journey – Developing Our CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Next Step – Getting Ready for Brainwriting – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
    • Brainstorming! – CERT Emergency Communications Plan
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    • 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

  • Making Agave Happy
  • Planting Prickly Pear Cactus
  • Learn to Grow and Prune Berries and Fruit Trees Event
  • Digital Detox | Butterflies on Lantana
  • Cactus Incoming | Flowers Blooming

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 Thursday — November 27, 2025 November 27, 2025
    Happy Thanksgiving!  From the SurvivalBlog family to yours, we wish you a happy Thanksgiving. Despite the crises in this world and the many mounting pressures, we give thanks to our LORD that you are still here, you are still prepping, and that He will never forsake us. Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 By the President of […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Update: Honey–Storage Life, Crystallization, Storage Quantities, and Medicinal Uses November 27, 2025
    JWR’s Introductory Note: This is an update to an article that I wrote for SurvivalBlog in March, 2007. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary update re-posts, in recognition of the fact that the majority of readers did not join us until recent years. — A series of letters and posts on […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods November 27, 2025
    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 […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: November 27, 2025
    “A thankful heart is one of the primary identifying characteristics of a believer. It stands in stark contrast to pride, selfishness, and worry. And it helps fortify the believer’s trust in the Lord and reliance of His provision, even in the toughest times. No matter how choppy the seas become, a believer’s heart is buoyed […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — November 26, 2025 November 26, 2025
    On November 26th, 1716, a tamed African lion was exhibited for the first time in the American colonies by Captain Arthur Savage at his house on Brattle Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. — November 26th is the birthday of both gun inventor Eugene Reising (born 1884, died February 21, 1967) and the late Barton Biggs (born […]
    James Wesley Rawles

The Survival Podcast

  • The Thanksgiving Special for 2025 – Epi-3766
  • 12 Prepping Questions Answered – Epi-3765
  • Lies, Wars, Stupid Companies & More Lies – Epi-3764
  • Maeve’s Next Chapter: From Exceptional Breeding Female to Devoted Protector
  • Merten & Storck Carbon Steel Skillets – Item of the Day

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
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