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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
    • 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

  • 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

  • Rain, Yes Please
  • Wow – Iris Are Beautiful
  • Mind Maps on the Farm
  • Blooms are Here!
  • Paw Paws and Berries – Planted

RSS NCRenegade.com

  • 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
  • US Color Revolution

RSS SurvivalBlog

  • Preparedness Notes for Saturday — May 16, 2026 May 16, 2026
    On May 16th, 1903, George Adams Wyman began the first transcontinental motorcycle ride, in San Francisco. Riding a 1.25-horsespower (90 cc) “California” motorcycle designed by Roy Marks, he arrived in New York on July 6th. — May 16, 1943: No. 617 Squadron of the British RAF began the famous Dambusters Raid, (Operation “Chastise”), bombing the […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Small Farm Dairy Cattle – Part 5, by SaraSue May 16, 2026
    (Continued from Part 4. This concludes the article.) Medical needs I don’t often have to call a vet, but establishing a relationship with a large animal vet is crucial.  If you don’t have a relationship, you will have a terrible time getting help when you need it.  It’s worth it to spend money with the […]
    SurvivalBlog Contributor
  • Editors’ Prepping Progress May 16, 2026
    To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This […]
    Avalanche Lily
  • The Editors’ Quote: May 16, 2026
    “Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children […]
    James Wesley Rawles
  • Preparedness Notes for Friday — May 15, 2026 May 15, 2026
    On May 15, 1896 a tornado — now estimated as a F5 — killed 78 people in and near Sherman, Texas.  This was part of a multi-week tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest.  Pictured above is the first-ever photograph of a tornado, taken in 1884. — May 15, 1911: The U.S. Supreme Court dissolved Standard […]
    James Wesley Rawles

The Survival Podcast

  • Pigeons, The Forgotten Survival Animal – Epi-3846
  • Expert Panel Q&A – Epi-3845
  • Cooking Hacks to Eat Well on the Cheap – Epi-3844
  • Merten & Storck Carbon Steel Skillets – Item of the Day
  • The Future Gets More Absurd – Epi-3843

Amateur Radio Weekly

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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
  • Podcast
  • Resume
  • Camping Books
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