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Jeff McCaskill, a former US Army sergeant who teaches urban and wildlife survival courses, was invited as a guest speaker to the informal event.
McCaskill, who lives between Vancouver and an off-grid permaculture farm near Princeton, told the group that every household should have a pantry of food that would last 30 days in a disaster.
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Jerome Tjerkstra hosted the event, saying the idea for the presentation grew out of a Monday morning coffee chat between people of shared interests. It was agreed an invitation would be circulated in two weeks for a discussion about gardening in Princeton.
Tjerkstra said networking through ideas is one of his goals in providing a suitable venue, and he would like interested parties to initiate their own projects.
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