I'm just saying -- SHTF

I'm tired of boutique survival sites.

I was researching some specific aspects of DIY cheese and I thought hey, the survivalists must have this figured out.

Nope.

The websites I saw are basically just survival chic, not taking all the possible problems into account.

ALL OF THEM tell you things that

a) you have to stock for in advance. But due to SHTF you have no way to restock. You can't survive if you NEED the whole 21st century infrastructure to do it. You have to learn to survive WITHOUT infrastructure.

b) you need refrigeration to preserve. One two three NOOOO. Not even in a mild SHTF situation.

c) puts you into an unsurvivable position. If you are not using vegetable rennet, then you must either kill a calf for its rennet or have a way to keep existing rennet fresh. In a fridge. NOT a freezer. Now, in a real SHTF situation you can't afford to kill calves because your cows will get old and you need to raise those calves to replace them, not make cheese with them.

I realize that cows may be in short supply after SHTF but they won't actually be dying off unless things are so bad that humans are also dying off, in which case you won't be worrying about your cheesemaking. Not for long, anyway.

What I found was a site that showed you how to make vegetable rennet. It was not a survival site. It was a sustainability site. Everything it lists, you can buy seeds for. The seeds are open-pollinated, so you don't need the garden-store infrastructure to get more; they breed true. Start now.

If you have a "survival" website, assemble all the news stories of what happened in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria when the government refused to help. Now imagine that SHTF so hard, there's nobody to come help.

And rewrite your site.

Three hurricanes are churning out there in the Atlantic and one is drawing a bead on the Carolinas. This is your chance to test your plans for sustainability. Because survival don't mean squat when it comes to true SHTF.

I'm just saying...