Diagram: PLF Membership Timeline

Provident Living Farms: An Investment in Your Security

Only a Provident Living Farm membership offers education and support, food storage, alternative live storage, and options for alternative shelters. When compared with commercial food storage packages, we offer the only true long term Provident Living solution. When compared to purchasing, funding, and operating your own farm our value really shines! Our PLF members and associates can face the future with confidence and peace of mind.

PLF Membership

1. Food Production and Storage
   
   
   • Provident Living Farms provide food storage and multi-year food production specifically for our PLF members.
   • As a member, a one year supply of basic food storage items are immediately acquired for you.
   • Multi-year food production or “Alternative live storage” means that livestock are naturally raised on local farms explicitly for members, who receive the benefits of a safe, secure, reliable source of high quality meats.
     • When additional farm commodities are available, members receive priority notice and opportunity to acquire them at discount prices. These may include livestock, hay and grains, produce, honey, and other farm products.
   • We also offer work and recreation opportunities in farm and ranch environments.


2. Education and Support

• Consultation with members to analyze, establish, and strengthen their personal plans and preparations including;
  • Short term (i.e. 72 hours – 3 months.) emergency preparedness.
  • Long term Provident Living (i.e. 3 months – multi-year) support, food storage, and annual food production.
  • PLF community support system.
  • Select books, articles, training materials, and clinics are presented throughout the year on topics such as:

  - Emergency Preparedness	- Personal and family finance
  - Gardening	- Animal husbandry
  - Food preservation and storage	- Health and nutrition
  - Personal protection and security	- Bartering and trading

Shelter / Retreat Options

1. Alternative shelter locations, and disaster support, which may include:
   
   
   • RV sites for use as a base or retreat
   • Crisis intervention support
   • Alternative emergency shelter locations

Questions

• Ask yourself if there are any gaps in your personal and family preparation that we can help fill.
  
  
  • Do your preparations, plans or investments, give you peace of mind?
  • Are you concerned with increasing food “threats” including product quality, availability, and rising costs?
  • Will your food storage program continue to grow and replenish itself annually; or is alternative live storage (livestock) included?
  • Any concerns about food storage, preservation, protection, and other items such as water, gardening, seeds, etc?
  • Do your food storage suppliers help you plan, and educate you about other long term provident living options?
  • Would a network of like minded people that create a strong support structure build your confidence in the future?
  • Do you have a back up plan for an emergency retreat; if you do, does it include producing your own food on site?
  • Are you worried about “catastrophes,” or are you truly building a provident living lifestyle which brings peace of mind, regardless of what changes may come?

Provident Living Farms® "Power through Preparation!" ®

Quote: “I speak with a feeling of great urgency, I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people, I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory. The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.”

- Ezra Taft Benson, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints