Tim King on Freedomizer Radio

The program begins at 7:30 p.m. Pacific, Tim King joins author and radio host James Talmage Stevens / Doctor Prepper.

(SALEM) - The program begins at 7:30 p.m. Pacific, Tim King joins author and radio host James Talmage Stevens / Doctor Prepper, go here: http://www.freedomizerradio.com/

About Talmage Stevens

I grew up in the post-WW II ex-urban lifestyle that included living by self-reliance principles. Our family lived the preparedness lifestyle long before it was considered an attribute! On the farm of my maternal grandfather, we lived pretty much off the land. We played on haystacks and inside the barns. We raised chickens, pigs, cows, horses, and raised crops we could preserve and store. We also raised family-size crops of corn, sugar cane, peas, beans, carrots, squash, onions, cucumbers, and hot peppers––don’t forget the okra and eggplant!

Everything went into a bottle––I actually thought food grew in bottles in the dark of the basement till I was 7-8 years old! It was in the late summer after my 8th birthday that I found out how all those fruits and veggies got into those bottles in the basement storeroom. That was the summer my mother and grandmother determined I was old enough to learn how to tend the garden, pick the vegetables, and participate in the canning, bottling, and pickling––and hauling the jars to the basement!

After several years, our family moved to a larger house on less land farther out of the city. A yard garden, in-home food production and food preservation continued to be part of life until my college days.

In January 1974 I developed Making the Best of Basics—Family Preparedness Handbook as a post-college project. The 1^st Edition of “Basics” was a self-published enterprise, approximately 200 pages, hand-typed on a portable typewriter, printed on one side from paper masters, hand-collated, and assembled around an eight-sided table in our dining room. The pages were held together by a split brass pin in one corner! The first 1,100 printed copies of Basics sold for $2, and entirely sold out in just a few hours on a Saturday afternoon!

With such early success and additional requests for copies, we boldly decided to print more! The 2^nd printing of 5,000 copies––printed on both sides of the paper and glued onto the cover––sold out in 8 days! For the next few months, several printings and revisions magically sold and the printer was kept working overtime.

After I completed graduate school, I turned corporate, gaining ground on being an 8-5 executive, and tired of publishing the book. I turned the book over to my business partner to develop. It wasn’t too long before he lost interest, market demand lessened, and I got out of the book business altogether. We moved around the country with our 6 children, eventually arriving in San Antonio TX in 1982. Years later, in 1994, some people contacted me to acquire the rights to the book, and having recently had some marital, job-related, and financial difficulties all at once, I decided to check out the book’s potential to determine its market value before committing to a selling price.

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