15 Ways Manure Will Save Your Life When SHTF - Ask a Prepper

I grew up around manure. It was on my boots before school, it was in the garden every spring, and the smell of a cow barn in August is still one of those things that puts me right back in my father’s place. I helped him patch a shed wall with a dung and clay mix when I was ten, and I remember thinking it was the strangest thing, spreading cow patties on a building like frosting on a cake. That wall held up for another twenty years. What I never understood is why manure barely comes up in prepper circles. Homesteaders get it. Anyone running animals knows the pile out back is doing half the work on the property. But in the broader survival conversation, people will talk for hours about water filters and ammo storage and never once mention the single most renewable resource sitting right behind the barn. Last fall I drove out to my father’s old county to visit a few of the families still running small operations out there. I wanted to pick their brains on the things they were doing with …