Why have we forsaken what is nothing more than common sense? In this article, I want to encourage my fellow preppers. Being prepared is not atypical. This is how humanity has always dealt with life.

This is our history.

For thousands of years, humanity has worked to plant and grow in the spring and summer and harvest in the fall to store food for the winter. 

Were they "fringe" elements? 

No: people used to dry, smoke, and salt meat to store over the winter months. Even before the age of canning and mason jars came about, the root cellars existed; cold storage, and also storage for dried grains such as wheat, oats, corn, and hay.

News flash: that's "prepping," or preparation.

Humans were given a beautiful gift: the gift of common sense. 

It was that "common sense" that led the rulers of Britain and the United States to ask people to grow "victory gardens" for both WWI and WWII to prepare for times of shortages during those world wars.