Posted on 02/09/2009 12:36:11 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny
Yahoo ran an interesting article this morning indicating a rise in the number of survivalist communities cropping up around the country. I have been wondering myself how much of the recent energy crisis is causing people to do things like stockpile food and water, grow their own vegetables, etc. Could it be that there are many people out there stockpiling and their increased buying has caused food prices to increase? It’s an interesting theory, but I believe increased food prices have more to do with rising fuel prices as cost-to-market costs have increased and grocers are simply passing those increases along to the consumer. A recent stroll through the camping section of Wal-Mart did give me pause - what kinds of things are prudent to have on hand in the event of a worldwide shortage of food and/or fuel? Survivalist in Training
I’ve been interested in survival stories since I was a kid, which is funny considering I grew up in a city. Maybe that’s why the idea of living off the land appealed to me. My grandfather and I frequently took camping trips along the Blue Ridge Parkway and around the Smoky Mountains. Looking back, some of the best times we had were when we stayed at campgrounds without electricity hookups, because it forced us to use what we had to get by. My grandfather was well-prepared with a camp stove and lanterns (which ran off propane), and when the sun went to bed we usually did along with it. We played cards for entertainment, and in the absence of televisions, games, etc. we shared many great conversations. Survivalist in the Neighborhood
Information on plants for crops, all kinds:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Indices/index_ab.html
[These are live links at the linked page, this is the bean that does well for me here and keeps making bean pods, if the bean is pinched off below the stem and not the cluster part pulled off.
granny]
Vigna sesquipedalis (L.) Fruw.
Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ssp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verd.
Fabaceae
Asparagus bean, Yard long bean, Changjiang dou, cheung kung tau, sitao, zuyu roku sasage
We have information from several sources:
Asian Vegetables—Mas Yamaguchi
New Opportunities in Vigna—Richard L. Fery
Effect of Southern Root Knot Nematode on Yield Components of Yardlong Beans (Abstract)—E.G. Rhoden, C.K. Bonsi and M.L. Ngoyi
Susceptibility of Yardlong Beans to Root Knot Nematode Infestation (Abstract)—E.G. Rhoden, C.K. Bonsi and M.L. Ngoyi
Article from:
Magness, J.R., G.M. Markle, C.C. Compton. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States.
As hay, pasture, and soil improvement crop:
Magness, J.R., G.M. Markle, C.C. Compton. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States.
from:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Vigna_sesquipedalis_nex.html
famine foods logo
Famine Foods
by Bob Freedman
1301 Dartmouth Street
Albany, CA 94706
email: namdeerf@aceweb.com
The Famine Foods Database:
Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.
Notes on the Famine Foods Website by Robert L. Freedman
Search the Famine Foods Database
Plant family index
Famine Foods listed by Genus and species
List of references
Other Famine Foods websites
Ethiopia: Famine Food Field Guide
from:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/ff_home.html
Links to some exciting garden sites and research, there are too many to copy:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/related_web_sites.html
Australia New Crops:
http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/
That is good to know, we have a Wallapai Tiger [Cone nose Beetle] here that I am very allergic to and swell up and burn and itch, so vinegar and soda will be my next remedy.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-387.html#ASIAN%20VEGETABLES
Asian Vegetables
Mas Yamaguchi
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ASIAN VEGETABLES
3. REFERENCES
4. Table 1
[Interesting report on Asian vegetables]
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/faminefoods.html
Notes on the Famine Foods Website
by Robert L. Freedman
Orinda, California U.S.A.
INTRODUCTION
My interest in the study of famine food-plants began in 1966 when I was an undergraduate student in the anthropology department of the University of Arizona. In my last semester, I wrote a term paper on Native American food preparation techniques, for Professor Bernard Fontana’s class, “History of the Indians of North America.” This research became the catalyst for an interest in the socio-anthropological aspects of human food habits, which lasted for the next fifteen years.
[lists sources/resources, many articles to google]
Hey there, good to see you too. I want the greenhouse in order to avoid the bugs outside!!!
My only experience in vegetable gardening is when I was up north. I used to spray my plants with hot pepper juice to keep the bugs off. Once I got those big ugly green catepillar type slimy bugs, ugh! I called my dad over to get it off. LOL. I hate bugs.
Here I am 30 years later in the South where bugs are plentiful. I want to start a garden but between the bugs, flies and snakes I’m a little hesitant. I’m such a wimp.
I was thinking a greenhouse might reduce my interaction with the “elements”.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-TOC.html
[snipped, there are many others of interest, these are live at the above link, to the articles.....granny]
Vegetable Crops
* Latin American Vegetables—Mary Lamberts
* Asian Vegetables—Mas Yamaguchi
* Legume Species as Leaf Vegetables—Robert P. Barrett
* Vegetable Amaranths: Cultivar Selection for Summer Production in the South—Ramsey L. Sealy, E.L McWilliams, J. Novak, F. Fong, and C.M. Kenerley
* Melofon: A New Crop for Concentrated Yield of Pickles—Haim Nerson, Harry S. Paris, and Menahem Edelstein
* Hull-less Seeded Pumpkins: A New Edible Snackseed Crop—J. Brent Loy
* Tomatillo: A Potential Vegetable Crop for Louisiana—D.N. Moriconi, M.C. Rush, and H. Flores
* Witloof Chicory: A New Vegetable Crop in the United States—Kenneth A. Corey, David J. Merchant, and Lester F. Whitney
* Seakale: A New Vegetable Produced as Etiolated Sprouts—Jean-Yves Péron
* Tuberous-rooted Chervil: A New Root Vegetable for Temperate Climates—Jean-Yves Péron
* Tropical Root and Tuber Crops—Stephen K. O’Hair
* Andean Tuber Crops: Worldwide Potential—Calvin R. Sperling and Steven R. King
* Domestication of Apios americana—B.D. Reynolds, W.J. Blackmon, E. Wickremesinhe, M.H. Wells, and R.J. Constantin
* Protein Quality Evaluation of Apios amaericana Tubers (Abstract)—Holly E. Johnson, Maren Hegsted, and William J. Blackmon
* Protein Quality in Apios americana Tubers and Seeds (Abstract)—P.W Wilson, F.J. Pichardo, W.J. Blackmon, and B.D. Reynolds
* Compositional Changes in Apios americana Tubers During Storage (Abstract)—D.H. Picha, W.J. Blackmon, P.W. Wilson, L.P. Hanson, and B.D. Reynolds
* Inoculation, Nitrogen, and Cultivar Effects on Nodulation and Tuber Yield of Apios americana (Abstract)—D.H. Putnam, L. Field, and G.H. Heichel
* Evaluations of Preemergence Herbicides for Use in Apios americana (Abstract)—D. Wayne Wells and R.J. Constantin
* Evaluating Apios americana as a Wetland Tuber Crop (Abstract)—Mary E. Musgrave, Alston G. Hopkins, Jr., and William J. Blackmon
* The Winged Bean: A Potential Protein Crop (Abstract)—S. Venketeswaran, M.A.D.L. Dias, and Ursula V. Weyers
* Effect of Southern Root Knot Nematode on Yield Components of Yardlong Beans (Abstract)—E.G. Rhoden, C.K. Bonsi and M.L. Ngoyi
* Susceptibility of Yardlong Beans to Root Knot Nematode Infestation (Abstract)—E.G. Rhoden, C.K. Bonsi, and M. L. Ngoyi
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-499.html
Chinese Medicinals
Albert Y. Leung
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY
1. Wu Shi Er Bing Fang (Prescriptions for Fifty-two Diseases)
2. Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shennong Herbal)
3. Tang Ben Cao (Tang Herbal)
4. Ben Cao Gang Mu (Herbal Systematics)
5. Zhong Yao Da Ci Dian (Encyclopedia of Chinese Materia Medica)
3. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON CHINESE MEDICINALS
1. Books
2. Journals
4. SCOPE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA
1. Single Drugs
2. Combinations
3. Current Evaluation and Documentation of Chinese Medicinals
5. EXAMPLES OF COMMON CHINESE MEDICINALS
1. Mahuang
2. Sour Date Kernel
3. Qian Ceng Ta
4. Detoxicants
6. CONCLUSION
7. REFERENCES
[Full article at link]
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-511.html
[article is at link]
Natural Pesticides from Plants
Stephen O. Duke
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PLANT-DERIVED COMPOUNDS WITH PESTICIDAL POTENTIAL
1. Herbicides
2. Insecticides
3. Fungicides
4. Nematicides and Molluscicides
5. Rodenticides
3. FACTORS INFLUENCING DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL PESTICIDES
1. Discovery
2. Development
4. THE FUTURE
5. REFERENCES
6. Fig. 1
7. Fig. 2
8. Fig. 3
9. Fig. 4
Some of the OLD (like me) insect controls were:
1. picking them off and squashing
2. Hot pepper - chop and simmer in water, then drain off the liquid and spray. (I have a big bag in the freezer - all the left over HOT peppers from the garden last year - will be using them this summer)
3. Tobacco - either as juice mixed with water and sprayed like the peppers or as dust. The dust also works to control fleas, ticks, mites in chicken dust holes as well as in bedding for dogs.
4. Good old fashioned lye soap mixed in water and sprayed.
5. Mineral or Cod Oil - a drop on the corn silk weekly keeps the earworms out
6. Chickens - they are voracious bug eaters - they will run headlong into a wall chasing a grasshopper or other bug. Just be sure to fence them out of the rest of your garden or you will find that they love all types of vegetables. If you have a portable fence, they will glean the spoil from the garden, eat the grass and scratch up and eat every kind of bug - including ticks.
They all work and targeting to a specific pest works best. Just don’t use the tobacco juice on the lettuce you are planning to have for dinner tonight - should be about a week with a shower in between spraying it and eating or it makes it bitter.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-317.html
[Full report at link]
Mayhaw: A New Fruit Crop for the South*
Jerry A. Payne and Gerard W. Krewer
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HORTICULTURE
1. Propagation
2. Rootstocks
3. Cultivars
4. Orchards
5. Pest Problems
3. PROSPECTS
4. REFERENCES
5. Table 1
6. Fig. 1
7. Fig. 2
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-122.html
[Full report at link]
New Grains and Pseudograins
Duane L. Johnson
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TRITICALE (xTriticosecale Widdmark)
3. QUINOA (Chenopodium quinoa Willd)
1. Nutritional Value
2. Development of the Quinoa Industry
4. BLUE CORN (Zea mays L.)
1. Marketing
2. Research and Development
5. CONCLUSIONS
6. REFERENCES
7. Table 1
8. Table 2
9. Table 3
10. Table 4
11. Fig 1
12. Fig 2
13. Fig 3
Full report at link and this is one you eat the leaves as spinach, or I do and save the grains, feed the stalks to livestock....granny
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-127.html
[Full report]
Grain Amaranth
Charles S. Kauffman and Leon E. Weber
1. INTRODUCTION
2. HISTORY AND TRADITIONAL USES
3. MODERN PROSPECTS
4. GERMPLASM
5. GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING
6. AGRONOMIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
7. NUTRITION AND FOOD USE
8. REFERENCES
9. Fig. 1
10. Fig. 2
11. Fig. 3
12. Fig. 4
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-391.html
Legume Species as Leaf Vegetables
Robert P. Barrett
[snippet of full article]
Major Species
Several of the most prominent legume leaf vegetables deserve special mention. The two most widely distributed species are cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] and bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Bean leaves are consumed in at least eight African countries and Indonesia, while cowpea is consumed in 18 countries in Africa and seven more in Asia and the Pacific. Cowpea is among the top three or four leaf vegetables in many parts of Africa, but bean is also heavily consumed (Bittenbender et al. 1984). NASA has begun research on growing cowpea as both a leaf vegetable and a seed crop, for food in space (Bubenheim and Mitchell 1988, and present volume). Cowpea and bean are the most consumed legume leaves.
Fennugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) is an important potherb in southern Asia where it is known in Hindi as mehti. Leaves are also eaten in the Mid East and Mediterranean, Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi.
Leaves or tender stem tips of the common pea (Pisum sativum L.) are eaten in both tropical and temperate regions, in Malawi Burma, Indonesia, China, and Japan, but it does not appear to be a major vegetable anywhere. Edible leaves were widely promoted as one of many advantages of the winged bean [Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) D.C.], recorded from four countries in southern Asia (Bittenbender et al. 1984), but in practice they are not often eaten. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a widespread but obscure leaf vegetable, reported from Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Senegal, Mali, and Indonesia.
The genus Cassia includes 22 trees, shrubs, and herbs used as leaf vegetables. Sicklepod (Cassia tora L.), a weedy herb widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics, is eaten in Mali Cameroon, Tanzania, India, and Indonesia (Bittenbender et al. 1984). It is also noted as a wild edible plant in the southeastern U.S. (Peterson 1978). Young leaves of Cassia obtusifolia L. are eaten in South America and India (Bittenbender et al. 1984). In northern Senegal this herb grows abundantly during the rainy season and its leaves are consumed in great quantity as most other foods are scarce at that time. Then it provides the major source of vitamins A and C, usually being added to millet porridge (Becker 1983).
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit (often called L. glauca (L.) Benth.) and Sesbania grandiflora Pers. are rapid-growing nitrogen fixing trees widely naturalized in the tropics and planted for many uses, especially fuel soil conservation, fodder, and poles. Leucaena leaves are eaten in Central Africa, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and its native Mexico. Young Sesbania leaves are eaten in Attica, Pakistan India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Pacific, and also in Guyana.
GEOGRAPHY OF USE
continued........
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-428.html
[a snippet of the full article]
The Andean region of South America is one of the eight centers of diversity of cultivated plants described by Vavilov (1951) and has recently become recognized as an important area for minor-crop development and germplasm conservation (IBPGR 1982). There is also strong evidence that the southern Peruvian Andes is one of the four areas of the world where the independent invention of agriculture took place (Hawkes 1983).
The potato has been the subject of international crop development and is now commonly grown throughout the world. There are, however, many other important food crops that were domesticated in the Andes but that are poorly known scientifically. The subject of this paper is three of these crops: Ullucus tuberosus Caldas (Basellaceae, Fig. 1, 2); Oxalis tuberosa Mol. (Oxalidaceae, Fig. 3, 4); and Tropaeolum tuberosum R. & P. (Tropaeolaceae, Fig. 5, 6). Each of these crops is a potential new crop for other areas of the world.
The Andean Crop Complex
Numerous other root and tuber crops have been domesticated in the Andes; Arracacia xanthorriza Bancr. (Apiaceae), Canna edulis Ker-Gawl. (Cannaceae), Lepidium meyenii Walp. (Brassicaceae), Mirabilis expanse R & P (Nyctaginaceae) and Polymnia sonchifolia Poepp. & Endl. (Asteraceae). No discussion of Andean crop resources would be complete without mentioning the global potential of these and other crops that are part of the agricultural heritage of the Andean region. Other important crops include the high protein pseudograins, Chenopodium quinoa Willd. (Chenopodiaceae), C. pallidicaule Heller, and a high protein legume, Lupinus mutabilis Sweet (Fabaceae). As a group, these tuber, grain legume and other crops have been among the primary food sources in the highland Andean region for centuries. A National Academy of Sciences report on Andean crops has presented general information on these and other crops (NRC 1989).
continued.........
I would give my eye teeth for one of those engines>>>
Just come on up the day after his funeral. LOL Just kidding. At my age, many of my best friends are widows. Takes a bump in the road of life to put a perspective on things. My hugh bump came seven years ago when I sat in the waiting room at the Leahy Clinic in Boston while hubby endured a 11 hour operation to remove a cancerous bladder, prostate and uretha, had his kidneys connected with large intestine and directed to a hole in his side. Then after five more hours, I was allowed to see this very sick man for a few minutes. Went out to my car at midnight and returned early morning to stay with him, sleeping on a cot in his room for seven days. At home, we had a visiting nurse for ninety more days while a stubborn incision refused to heal (staph infection?? of course nobody would admit to it). I would have given anything at this time to hear him ask,”you got a spare minute?”
At his yearly checkups the Dr claims he is getting younger every year, so hopefully he will be around for a long, long time. He does most of the cooking and always insisted on Fleishman’s Yeast until one day I convinced him to try the bulk variety in our Natural Food Store. Likes it just as well and as you said, “at just a fraction of the cost.”
We get “deer apples” at a local orchard store for $6.00 a bushel. The deer do get a few, but they are such good apples with maybe a blemish or misshapen we use them up making and freezing pies, mincemeat, applesauce etc. I should say hubby makes the goodies and I do my share by “taste-testing” for quality, flavor etc.
Unfortunately, we are becoming a bedroom community of Boston. Have lived here for 77 years, so don’t anticipate moving any time soon, but sure do hate the changes coming our way every day.
Wow I’m really behind now...........going back to catch up.
No problem splitting it. I have several mauls and plenty of wedges. Have split cords and cords of wood in my life, but how do you smooth the surface after splitting to prevent splinters you know where? Hubby has adzes but doubt if I could get them smooth enough with those. Guess I’ll have to try the sawmill route.
LOL It is strange how we get all wrapped up in one brand or another. Many years ago I had an awakening when I managed the receiving, storage, freezing and prep of vegetables for a canning plant. They processed 26 different items but we put over 600 labels on them. The labeling line could be running Aunt Lydia’s Lima Beans and 30 seconds later be running Libby’s or Van Kamp... As long as they made the grade, the label was just window dressing.
Same way with bleach - Wife always said Clorox was way better than that house brand - It took a long time to convince her that the sodium hypochlorite percentage was the same on both and water was the only other ingredient. She now checks the percentage and buys the cheapest.
I was going to tell you to call me if you had that auction but didn’t think it would be appropriate.
Back when I first started going with my wife, I worked days and she was working evenings at the hospital and lived only two blocks from it. So after I would get off work, I would go to her apartment and fix her dinner - she would come home for my meals and learned that I cooked better than she did. So, with the exception of the years when I was doing a lot of traveling, I have been the cook.
Absolutely nothing wrong with deer apples... Here we call them pick-outs and we use them for pie filling, apple sauce and apple jelly I did 3 cases of pie filling, 6 cases of apple sauce and 2 cases of half pints of apple jelly. Yum!
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Other searches not done:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/faminefoods/ff_references.html
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