I am ordering my gardening supplies with survival in mind.
I have already planted berry bushes on my property and am ordering blueberries this year.
I buy seeds for plants that are open pollinated, that I can save the seeds from.
We have some black walnut trees on our property and if I can just figure out how to get the nuts open.....
That is a good plan (the cannibal crowd is thinking that you are describing feeders), how about apples?
For people with no yards, even they should buy a 99cent packet of cherry tomato seeds and Jalapeno seeds, and add fresh packets to the collection every three years.
For someone using a couple of 5 gallon buckets to grow them on a patio, there won’t be any calories in those two plants, but there will be a lot of concentrated nutrition and vitamin C, (and flavor) and both of those two plants are prolific producers, even in containers.
Urban people also should know how to sprout their wheat seeds and beans, that is a constant small source of fresh vegetable nutrition that you can do totally on your kitchen counter.
Drive over them. Wear gloves - the dye is permanent.
The green covering on the walnut makes a great dye for fibers or clothes....I had stomping boots and after a rain went under the tree and broke open the covering by stomping on them...then putting them in a 5 gallon bucket of water add water as it evaporates do this for several weeks, using cheese cloth pour the water into a clean bucket covered with the cloth....this gets rid of debris in the dye water...then the dye is ready to use....Never do this without wearing rubber gloves. On your hands it takes days of washing to get your hands clean of the dye...
Not necessarily for survival but for those that hand dye and spin their own fibers....
Wish I had kept one of the catalogs I use to order medications for my goats from....you can get all kinds of antibiotics, boxes of sterile needles and syringes and the anti-biotics can get both injection type and some orals... The penicillin and such are the same as any doctor uses for humans...Cost is minimal for 100ml bottle, keep refrigerated...also got pepto-bismo by the gallon for use with the flock. But don't remember the name of the company..it was for vet supplies of all kinds. Free shipping for over 100 dollars worth of stuff...It was some place in Minnesota I think, but there has to be more than one...no vet registration needed to purchase..mostly for those that have large herds of whatever...
The green covering on the walnut makes a great dye for fibers or clothes....I had stomping boots and after a rain went under the tree and broke open the covering by stomping on them...then putting them in a 5 gallon bucket of water add water as it evaporates do this for several weeks, using cheese cloth pour the water into a clean bucket covered with the cloth....this gets rid of debris in the dye water...then the dye is ready to use....Never do this without wearing rubber gloves. On your hands it takes days of washing to get your hands clean of the dye...Even picking up the walnuts still in their covering can get your hands dyed..Nasty missile's when cutting the grass so all had to be picked up...
Not necessarily for survival but for those that hand dye and spin their own fibers....
Wish I had kept one of the catalogs I use to order medications for my goats from....you can get all kinds of antibiotics, boxes of sterile needles and syringes and the anti-biotics can get both injection type and some orals... The penicillin and such are the same as any doctor uses for humans...Cost is minimal for 100ml bottle, keep refrigerated...also got pepto-bismo by the gallon for use with the flock. But don't remember the name of the company..it was for vet supplies of all kinds. Free shipping for over 100 dollars worth of stuff...It was some place in Minnesota I think, but there has to be more than one...no vet registration needed to purchase..mostly for those that have large herds of whatever...