At that age I'd say too young for fire starting, although material gathering would be good. Basic woods awareness, building simple shelters, simple tracking (identifying tracks of different common animals), fishing, what to do if you get lost in the woods.
Bit more conspicuous but one of my personal favorites, sjambok......scourge of the dark continent. Some day I'd love to have a real one made of rhino hide but in the mean time, cold steel makes em cheap and tough. Also great to dissuade aggressive dogs out in public.
Aluminum self defense keychain. Cheap, legal but will definitely need some practice to be effective. I practiced martial arts for many years until I destroyed my back. If I couldn't carry a proper weapon that's what I'd have on me. Don't need full blown ,martial arts training but some basic...
How many knew that Chiraq had to install a network of listening posts to triangulate the location of gunshots based on relative distance of travel of the sound waves? There are so many shootings there that people don’t bother calling them in so they had to install a system
In all seriousness, don't rely on having the internet available to look stuff up. Get a book or two on survival basics. Safe water, food, fire, shelter, basic first aid, basic woodcraft. Makes me sick that even in scouts today they seem to lack basic survival skills. Just an old scout...
How about NE? Used to be one in Athens although somewhat small and with a fairly static inventory. It was over in Normaltown but closed some time ago. I love wandering around a good army/navy surplus store to look for cool stuff.
Well ya gotta feed the hogs ya know!!!! After you move the wash all that corn can't just go to waste, at least that's what I've observed from YouTube videos.
This dude in ATL sells new food grade buckets for $2/each.
https://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/bfs/d/riverdale-gallon-food-grade-buckets/7314505009.html
Down by the airport.
8 drops of bleach per gallon of water. Let that sit for a while before drinking, I'd wait an hour. That'll kill the bugs but do nothing for pollutants other than bacteria and micro-organisms. It also won't clean out all the stuff that a nice filter will. On the flip side it's dirt cheap so a...