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Related: About this forumDoomsday Preppers Will Descend on Denver for Self-Reliance Expo
If you're ready to get your doomsday prep on (or maybe you're just interested in vertical gardening and beekeeping?), the National Self-Reliance Project is bringing the Self-Reliance & Simple Life Experience to the National Western Complex September 22 and 23.
Eighty exhibitors focused on self-reliance, survival and sustainability will attend, as will twenty speakers from organizations like the Denver Office of Emergency Management, the Red Cross and Fortitude Ranch, a survival community with a location in Colorado Springs that is "equipped to survive any type of disaster and long-term loss of law and order," according to its website.
Much of "doomsday prep" these days is focused on sustainability and basic disaster awareness. The prepping community has become a more mainstream movement since the sensational Doomsday Preppers made its debut on the National Geographic channel in 2011, says Kiki Bandilla, a Coloradan and the CEO of the National Self-Reliance Project.
"This is about just being smart," Bandilla says. "It's a return to what our natural instincts are. That's really what we're trying to do, teach [people] what the term 'self-reliance' means. It doesn't mean you're nuts or negative or crazy people doing crazy things."
Read more: https://www.westword.com/news/doomsday-preppers-coming-to-denver-for-simple-life-and-self-reliance-expo-10789618
Turbineguy
(38,246 posts)for cooking people.
keithbvadu2
(39,786 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)That are really into this type of stuff. I realize I may be wrong. Most people I have met that are into being preppers, have been religious rw nuts.
TexasTowelie
(116,301 posts)Most of the doomsday preppers fit the Alex Jones/Infowars mentality. Their survivalist instincts are so dominant that it suppresses most other social interactions.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)keithbvadu2
(39,786 posts)Apocalypse Chow: We Tried Televangelist Jim Bakker's 'Survival Food'
(It did not get rave reviews)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/456677535/apocalypse-chow-we-tried-televangelist-jim-bakkers-survival-food