Posted on 04/02/2010 5:05:17 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
Yep, don't need a garden....Just canned food, dried food and water....
Don’t get me wrong, doesn’t hurt to have 50lbs of taters in the ground.
But the folks who think they can in a week or two grow a garden salad and that’s enough to keep them going for a month are plain crazy.
For one thing, most veggies are very low on the protein scale.
Invest in 100 lbs of rice and seal it up!
Another thing is that many veggies we grow for the roots have edible greens. Beet greens are way up there on the vitamin and nutrition scale. Radish and carrot greens are quite edible. And don’t forget the dandelions!
Gardens are fine, but when it comes to real survival, in real bad times, can food and water is king.
It’s can keep armies fighting and surviving for a period of *years*.
Still working on making flour though.
Omigosh. Such ignorance being propogated on FR. People, please stop telling people to use old microwaves for Faraday cages for EMP! I'm telling you this as an RF and microwave engineer with over 20 years experience. Just because you think microwave ovens don't "fry whoever is closest" with "radiation" (oh my, your Wifi which operates on the same freqs would be horrified) doesn't mean it's a good shield for the VERY WIDE band of frequencies emitted by an EMP bomb or even a solar event.
Please, just put stuff you want to protect in a closed metal box with a tight-fitting metal lid. No mesh, no open spaces, no nothing.
You are the first person I have heard who has an opinion contrary to our folk lore.
As I understand it a microwave makes a very good faraday cage and simply putting your electronics in a box offers less protection.
In response to your post, I decided to test the hypothesis that radio waves will not travel through the microwave, which is a cage.
I had not done this before but since you are saying don’t:
I just put two cell phones, walkie talkie, radio and a couple of other gadgets in the microwave and not one of them accepted a signal.
If you have information that is more beneficial I and the other posters would be grateful for your help.
I have easily 300 lbs of canned goods and about 20 of the 18 gallon rubbermaid thingies full of beans, rice, pasta, gravy mixes, pancake mixes, powdered milk, etc.
You name it, I probably got it!
See the post above yours and mine, which is below yours.
What brand names do you have? I've seen some down at the local farmer supply store... would like to know what you bought!
LOL Thanks!!! I love my readers!!!
And I should remind everybody that tomorrow is Easter.
That means that come Monday, a certain commodity will be cheaper than dirt!
Chocolate!!
All kinds and flavors. The deal is that chocolate is a good pick-me-up food and can be stored for years.
http://www.soapmakingfun.com/making-homemade-soap.shtml
There are many other resources on the web, usually in forums you can find where to buy lye, NaOH (Sodium hydroxide), locally. there are many methods, I used to have some pdf’s, i’ll see if I can find them for you.
ping
“I was seriously thinking about buying a STEAM ENGINE!!!”
Steam engines are very expensive to purchase and maintain and not very efficient. Research wood-gas generation. If you have a good supply of wood it can keep you going for quite a while. Fairly simple to build one, nothing to maintain. Can power any gas engine.
please add me to your survival ping list. pretty please. (was that nice enough? :)
“some guy names Rawles.”
SurvivalBlog.com
one of the best preparedness websites
“Better than that are the hand cranked lights. “
Most hand cranked lights/radios etc are garbage. Do you know of any really good quality units?
Well HI JD...
I just have a #10 generic (Sportsman brand)grinder that came with two different size grind plates (3/8 one works great for chili meat) and it has three different stuffer tubes. I think I paid $39 for it at Tractor Supply a couple of years ago. Takes a bit of cranking, but I have managed to put 5 deer through it.
How are things in the ‘Gulch’?
More info on buying antibiotics from farming supply please!
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