Posted on 02/26/2018 12:12:20 PM PST by CottonBall
I’ve been missing the vast amount of information on prepping, survival, camping, simple cooking, the old ways of doing just about everything – all the things nw_arizona_granny knew so much about and shared with us, along with numerous other posters with a vast array of skills and knowledge.
We have our various related-threads here, a recipe thread, a gardening thread, and even a prepper thread. They are all great and I don’t mean to take anything away from those and the hard work their owners put in.
But I was missing a place to talk about ALL those things, to get the camaraderie that we used to have on granny’s thread.
I learned how to can on those threads! The pressure canner was not my friend, I thought, but I bought one and stared at it for a month, intimidated. Then I read the directions for another month. But with the help and encouragement of posters on granny’s threads, I jumped in and now have my very own food storage room in the basement with lovely jars of shelf-stable meats, vegetables, and fruit. When we moved, I fashioned my food storage room – and insisted upon having a basement – from what I learned on her threads. Getting started gardening was from her threads. Making my own cleaning products….the list is endless.
So I thought I would take the chance and start another comprehensive prepper thread and see how it goes. I used to have granny’s ping list since I made one of the threads for her, but alas, with numerous computer changes, I cannot find it. So please pass this onto any posters you think might be interested.
We’ll just keep it running until..whenever. Granny created a new thread at 10,000 posts or so. I do like the idea of having ONE thread to go to – because often I cannot find or keep track of the weekly threads. I won’t be posting lots of recipes or tidbits myself – to any mods concerned about the size of this thread. I’d just like a place to chat, post questions, post ideas, make new prepping friends.
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
Thanks!
Excellent advice, Vlad. I will do the additional things you stated, along with what I already do.
Cotton Ball - any time you need help, just ping me. I have two threads that I already run, but I can always lend a hand where needed. :)
If anyone wants to be added to either of these Ping Lists, just send me a message!
Weekly Gardening Thread
Monthly Fiber Arts Thread
Jamestown 1630 runs the Monthly Cooking Thread.
Invest in Coconuts! Those suckers last for thousands of years, even after floating around in the ocean for decades.
What could be better? ;)
Excellent!
Thank you!
Does not surprise me in the least.
On the bright side, it goes to show that people are paying attention and see the same things coming that we do.
I also agree about keeping a low profile.
Someone has to be around to pick up the pieces and those someones need to have the prepper/survival knowledge base for future generations.
Great subject—I’ve no complaints about the thread! (Just giving you a gentle bit of a hard time...)
Well I have a complaint! I need to keep it going better.
I’d be curious, if anyone might have an answer, about “suburban prepping”. Have been told that gardening is of limited value in such a situation insofar as in tough times your garden will get poached.
Not knowing your "suburban prepping" circumstance, nor space available, you might consider container gardening on a porch or balcony.
Also, if a conventional garden area, there are motion activated water sprinklers to keep out pests (both four legged, and two legged pests).
Another alternative is to interplant veggies along with flowering plants.
Another alternative is to plant camouflaged vegetables like purple carrots, black krim tomatoes, etc., and other heirloom varieties with unusual coloring.
Also, there are several misplaced edible plants (we call them weeds) such as purslane, dandelion greens, burdock, sunchokes,
egyption walking onions, wild chive, spearmint, water cress, etc.
Euell Gibbons wrote a whole series of books, starting with "Stalking the Wild Asperigas" for finding edible wild plants in nature, and describes where to find for them.
Perhaps you might be interested in our gardening forum hosted weekly by FReeper 'Diana In Wisconsin' for additional suggestions ?
There are a lot of edible plants that don’t look like edible plants. If you’re in an area where “finger-blight” runs rampant, I’d start by looking for the obscure vegetables that most people won’t recognize. Something like Jerusalem Artichokes and dahlias instead of potatoes. Hyacinth beans and lupin beans instead of regular beans (make sure you know how to use them safely). Breadseed poppies look like ornamental poppies if you don’t know them well. That sort of thing.
There are also a lot of weeds that are edible. Most people have heard of roasting dandelion roots for coffee, but I find it better to scrape them clean and cook them up like carrots in a soup.
I’m sure other people will chime in, but that’s a start.
Thanks to you both. I have some raised beds I have built and used in recent years, because some heavy metals came back in my soil tests.
Would be a shame to have others do my harvesting for me if the going got tough, however. Haven’t grown them, but I love Jerusalem artichokes!
Guillotines?
First they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out
—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out
— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out
—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me
—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
“Then one day all of my guns and ammo were lost in a tragic boating accident”
That is tragic.
Speaking of which, how does one go about unregistering these guns? Tell the gun police that they were irretrievably lost?
Great ideas.
I never thought about getting a credit card in somebody else’s name.
With the last item, I think a lot of the prepping sites are running out of stock. I just had them to be on a couple of them, trying to get the weight of some number 10 can. I was trying to see if the shelving I was thinking of would be able to hold what I have. At least 50% of the number 10 cans were out of stock.
We used these, this past summer, even though we are on property. I wanted something to use on and near our patio....
2009 might be a bit old unless they were stored in the freezer.
When we moved here I planted a bunch of from the similar type can you’re talking about from 2009 also. Must have been a good sale that year or something! Anywhere they sprouted fine, that was in 2015 so they can was 6 years old. I didn’t start storing my seeds in the freezer until after that, so they were just at ambient temperature.
I never bought any seeds after that because I harvested the non-hybrid seeds and have been using them the following year. I really enjoy harvesting the seeds, it’s almost better than the produce.
I checked them by dampening a paper towel, sticking a bunch of seeds inside it, then sticking the paper towel in a ziplock bag. Put it in a warm place and see how many sprout. If not all do then I just plant double or triple the number of seeds.
I do that too, it’s kind of nice in the spring to not have to rush to get seeds. They are already down in my basement.
Occasionally hubby will want something different like yellow tomatoes. So I’ll splurge on paying for seeds for those.
Thanks for the information about older seeds. That’s good to know. W
Were you the one that way growing bean seeds as a job?
Awesome list, thank you! I’m kind of surprized the teeny little lettuce seeds last so long.
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