I’m thinking of my nuclear family and perhaps a couple more as my children grow up.
Need a good supply of wood and that will take about 10 acres of timber (can run pigs in that).
Need about 5 acres for vegetable farming.
Need 20 acres for grazing livestock.
Need 20 acres for corn, wheat, etc. if there isn’t modern seed, fertilizer etc.
I’d also like to have an orchard in there somewhere, which I could probably put around my 5 acre vegetable plot (thus making it easier to protect from all forms of vermin.
What have I forgotten?
What have I forgotten?
A shotgun to protect your homestead from midnight requisitioning.
water purification tablets
grain mill for wheat that can be used with electricity or by hand- sits on kitchen counter top
5 items that provide adequate calories, proteins, vitamins, and minerals without great expense;
wheat, sugar, honey, powdered milk, salt, and vitamin tablets.
Add dry beans, peas, rice, oats, lentils-
red winter wheat is best for protien
powdered milk need 100 pounds per person per year
sugar-need 100 pounds of sugar for each person per year
SALT- 5 pounds per person per year
vitamins and minerals-
the B complex is found in suffient quanities in wheat and milk
water
20 gallons per person for temporary emergency-
hot water heaters would be a sourse of safe emergency water
sour dough starter for making bread
EZEKIEL FLOUR-EZEKIEL 4:9
1 CUP RED WHEAT
1 CUP BARLEY
1 CUP BEANS
1 CUP LENTILS
1 CUP MILLET
1 CUP WHITE WHEAT
MIX TOGETHER AND GRIND TO A FINE FLOUR JUST BEFORE USING
ALSO
SESAME SEEDS-are 18 percent protein and provide well balance of essential amino acids good sourc of vitamin b1, niacin