Cold Times: How to Prepare for the Mini Ice Age - Paperback

by Trestudios (Illustrator), Anita Bailey (Author)

No holds barred guidebook to surviving the coming Mini Ice Age. Covers choosing a location, heating, storing and growing cold resilient food and medicinal herbs, water collection and filtering, health preservation, retrofitting for severe cold and heavy snow, storm sheltering, raising chickens, rabbits, goats and other hardy livestock, home defense and firearms, solar and alt energy, psychology of survival and much more. Included are multiple "from scratch" recipes for bread and beer starter cultures, making wines, tanning hides, and how to calculate how much to plant for your group. Wide ranging and comprehensive, the book is drawn from the author's five decades of experience and education.

Author Biography

Anita Bailey has a diverse and unique background - starting with arts and literature, then to alternative health care such as reflexology and herbal remedies, through commercial livestock raising sheep and goats, then organic homesteading, and now to a cow-calf operation. Along the way, her family lived without electricity for two years. She became a registered nurse, then a Master's level nurse practitioner working in primary care and urgent care for two decades, and earned her Doctorate in the field. Between canning and preserving the various foods grown in a large garden and acquiring her SCUBA card, she trained and utilized dogs of different breeds for search and rescue operations, and completed a second Master's degree in Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management. She's the author of hundreds of articles on small farming, peer-reviewed scholarly works in Alzheimer's and nursing research, and popular how-to books writing as Anita Evangelista. She is married and living the dream in the rural Ozarks. This is her fourteenth book.