I’ll just throw out some topics and if anyone wants to talk about them, jump in! Just hoping the subjects themselves will spark some ideas and/or questions.
(My typing is limited this week, since I am having more arm pain than usual, or I’d cut and paste some info I have on each subject. Hopefully I can do more next week!)
Fish antibiotics
Cast iron cooking
homemade laundry detergent (or any other cleaning product)
Water filtration
Keeping livestock
Precious metals
...I know I’m missing 20 or 30 important ones!
Salt.
For all the prepping threads I see and advice for what to store as far as quality foods and medicines, I see salt mentioned very seldom.
Salt is critical for survival and will probably be worth its weight in gold.
It stores very well in canning jars although it can be corrosive. I don’t know what else to do with it to keep it from caking.
Maybe vacuum sealer bags and then in a canning jar.
Anyway, aside from its use for survival, it would be very useful for bartering.
I'll just throw a few ideas out there, been prepping in my head since the 70's. Chickens I just saw a pinterest page where they can be raised in the same area as goats. Eggs. Both are kind of labor intensive.
Lots of fruit trees.
Now celery seed. It is aromatic and tasty, not safe for people with diverticulxxx problems. I only use it for cream of tomato soup made with milk and a generous pat of butter.
When I used to make German potato salad, I used it in that in place of celery. I think that could be canned. But corn starch thickening is not good for long germ. I got some special stuff to thicken fruit recommended in the recipe for raspberry turnovers and easy puff pastry.
Wild turkeys could be handy or a nuisance. They need trees to roost in at night.
Lots of predators are being allowed to make a comeback which is bad news. And hawks and eagles will grab small pets.
I don't know about Canadian geese They can get pretty tame but messy.
Just some random thoughts. Have lots of those lately.
Alamazan Kitchen guys cook with few utensils but having a knife like their might be a good investment if you wouldn't gash yourself with it. Boki will go out and cut off tree branches and whittle them to suit their needs.
When not in the woods on a campfire, it might bee a good idea to look into outdoor stoves and the cooking methods. I love those pots and simple kitchen pans they use. Especially that circular mesh thing they pile coals in and put on top of the clay pots and cook for hours sometimes. Have to have a good sense of temperatore and timing. And today was a no burn day because winds were so high and grass dry. Kind of odd for this time of year.
Have fun.