Ever feel overwhelmed by the uncertainty of the future?

Here are some good places to start creating some natural resiliency in your life:

• Know which weeds you can safely eat – and how to prepare them.
• Learn some basic skills – cooking, mending, tying knots, dressing appropriately for your climate.
• Reduce your needs for heating and cooling.
• Learn to grow your own food.
• Cultivate low-tech entertainment: reading, singing, playing non-electric musical instruments, playing board games.
• Get to know your plant and animal neighbors.
• Start composting.
• Learn to preserve food by dehydrating, fermenting, and canning.
• Reduce your reliance on packaged foods.
• Learn to save seeds.
• Orient yourself – learn to figure out which way is south, north, east, and west – no matter where you are.

That’s just a start! If you do only a handful of those things, you’re giving yourself a great jumpstart on knowing how to provide for your own basic needs.