E108: Women in Survival

In this episode hosts Aaron and Jason interview female survival badass Alana Barfield. She’s a lifelong survivalist/prepper both in a rural and urban setting.

Often women feel unrepresented in the community. Their voices don’t get heard enough. Their concerns and needs aren’t talked about regularly. However today we get a chance to hear from a female survivalist, and she takes on being women in the community.

And this is the first of at least two episodes with Alana. Soon we’ll also be interviewing her on a mysterious adventure and survival challenge she undertook. (We can’t talk about that yet, though.)

So join us as we discuss:

• Guns and women
• Female role models
• Raising a female survivalist
• Straddling the worlds of prepper and urbanite
• Learning wild edible foraging
• Unique issues for women in preparedness
• Dating as a survivalist woman

Resources from this episode:

• Alana’s Fan Page
• Merriwether’s Guide to Wild Edibles
• Upcoming Herbal Medicine class mentioned in the episode
• Universal Edibility Test
• The Human Path
• Women’s 5.11 Holster Shirt
• Men’s 5.11 Holster Shirt
• Flashbang Holster
• Yoga With a Gun video with Kirsten Joy Weiss (Who’s name I forgot)