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Top 5 Insects To Cultivate For Protein: A Senior’s Perspective

ByTeri Rehkopf

Exploring alternative protein sources becomes more interesting as we look for sustainable and nutritious options. Insect protein has emerged as one way to fill this need. In this article, I share a senior’s perspective on cultivating insects for protein. This idea is unique to me, but I am open to trying it. I like crustaceans,…

Getting Started With Insect Cultivation: A Simple Guide For Seniors By markus winkler of Unsplash
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Getting Started With Insect Cultivation: A Simple Guide For Seniors

ByTeri Rehkopf

Insect cultivation can be a surprisingly engaging and rewarding hobby, especially for seniors passionate about nature and learning new things. Caring for insects not only sparks curiosity but can also bring a sense of accomplishment, all while being a gentle and practical activity. This guide is here to help you start insect cultivation at a…

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Adapting Survival Tools For Aging Hands: A Comprehensive Guide

ByTeri Rehkopf

Adapting survival tools for aging hands can make a big difference when outdoors or handling everyday emergencies. Our hand strength, flexibility, and grip naturally change as we age. I know I don’t have the hand strength I used to have. Are you having issues using tools and gear as you age? This guide offers practical,…

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How to Plan for a Sinkhole: Your Grip on Falling Ground

ByTeri Rehkopf

Sinkholes are earth’s trapdoors—ground yawns open, swallowing homes or roads with no mercy. Water or mines carve them slow, then drop fast. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. Sinkholes abound in Florida. We have so much limestone and dolomite here. There are more…

How to Plan for an EMP/CME Disaster: Your Pulse Against the Blackout By ISS Expedition 23 crew - Mission: ISS023 Roll: E Frame: 58455 Mission ID on the Film or image: ISS023, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10691965
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How to Plan for an EMP/CME Disaster: Your Pulse Against the Blackout

ByTeri Rehkopf

EMP/CME disasters are silent tech-killers—electromagnetic pulses from bombs or coronal mass ejections from the sun fry circuits, grids, and gadgets in a flash. Power’s gone, cars stall, and comms die, hurling you back to the stone age. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of…

How to Plan for a Shark Attack: Your Bite Back in the Deep By Terry Goss, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1561215 The great white shark is involved in the most fatal unprovoked attacks
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How to Plan for a Shark Attack: Your Bite Back in the Deep

ByTeri Rehkopf

Shark attacks are the ocean’s gut-punch—jaws clamp, blood flows, and panic drowns you faster than teeth. Rare but raw. The first shark image above is of the great white shark. It is involved in the most fatal unprovoked attacks. I’m a fish. I love to swim, and I was a competitive swimmer in high school….

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How to Plan for a Power Outage: Your Edge in the Dark

ByTeri Rehkopf

Power outages are modern cripplers—lights die, heat fades, and tech goes black, whether from storms or sabotage. Days stretch to weeks with no juice. We have all experienced power outages. It’s inevitable. We have storms. We have generators, flashlights, and candles. The worst outages have been during and after hurricanes, lasting only a few days….

How to Plan for a Heatwave
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How to Plan for a Heatwave: Your Shield Against the Blaze

ByTeri Rehkopf

Heatwaves are slow broilers—temps soar past 90°F for days, frying you without relief. Power strains, bodies wilt, and dehydration ambushes fast. Every Summer, we have what feels like a heatwave in Florida. August can get to the high 90s and more. We have enough ocean winds to keep it from getting hotter, so it’s not…

How to Plan for a Drought: Your Stand Against the Dry Corn shows effect of drought
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How to Plan for a Drought: Your Stand Against the Dry

ByTeri Rehkopf

Droughts are silent stranglers—water dries up, crops wither, and dust chokes the air, stretching months into years. Fires flare, wells fail, and survival turns lean. I have been in a drought, but not that totally dried everything up. Florida has had a couple of months in a row without rain, but we haven’t been as…

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How to Plan for a Blizzard: Your Fight Against the Freeze

ByTeri Rehkopf

Blizzards are winter’s war machines—snow piles deep, winds howl, and cold bites to the bone, locking you in or stranding you out. Power dies, roads vanish, and frostbite stalks the unwary. I’ve never been in an actual blizzard that had white-out effects. I’ve lived most of my life in Florida, except for 10 years in…

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How to Plan for a Boat Capsizing: Your Manual to Stay Above Water

ByTeri Rehkopf

A boat capsizing is a watery ambush—calm waves turn rogue, the wind flips your hull, or a wake swamps you, dumping you into the drink with no warning. It’s not just sinking; it’s fighting cold, currents, and chaos to survive. I have self-capsized a small sailboat and a canoe to practice righting the boat while…

How to Plan for a Pandemic: Your Armor Against the Plague New coronavirus 2019-ncov. 3D illustration
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How to Plan for a Pandemic: Your Armor Against the Plague

ByTeri Rehkopf

Pandemics are silent, invisible reapers—microscopic invaders that turn bustling streets into ghost towns, grocery shelves into battlegrounds, and a simple handshake into a death sentence. One day, it’s a rumor from halfway across the globe; the next, it’s at your door. Cities lock down, supply chains snap, and the unprepared scramble as everyday life twists…