Have you done any root cellaring? I’ve messed with it a bit but not mastered it.
I think in a survival situation getting nutrition along with calories will be crucial. Root cellaring and winter/indoor gardening will be as important as canning/freezing/drying and dry storage of grains etc. If you can avoid starvation and also be healthy enough to work you will come thru alot better than living off MRE’s and survival food.
I have come close to mastering growing greens in small hoop tunnels. I harvested some excellent greens on the above freezing days this winter.
I make the hoops out of common field fencing and leave the wires poking out both sides to stick in the ground. They are about 6ft long and hooped over about 3ft. high.
I take the plastic for the hoop tunnels and reinforce the areas where I’m going stake it down with pieces cut from plastic slipsheets I get at work. Then I drill holes in the center of the pieces where the stakes go through and reinforce those with tarp grommets.
I place them at intervals that match pre-drilled 1X4’s. I put the boards over the top of the plastic on the ground at each side of the hoop and stake them down and the ends. The greens withstand down to -20F and the hoop can stand up to 70MPH winds.
My great grandmother was Cherokee. Her maiden was Adcock and she was from south central Tennessee.
No, never had a root cellar, kept the plans for years, but in Arizona, it becomes a rattlesnake haven...
The KOFA [King of Arizona mine, near Yuma], had a tunnel and the owner took me in it, once you get in a little ways, the temp stays the same the year around, about 60 degrees, as i recall.
Canning and dehydrated is all that I have worked with.
here we have a winter that goes down in the teens and a little snow, I have had good luck with the Brassia family in the winter and esp with the Oriental greens that say for winter growing, have even brushed the snow off them and pinched the leaves.
One does need fresh vegetables, this shipped green just does not have the food value.
Rodale was publishing in the 1950’s that growing food on depleted soil, was the cause of mental illness.
As I hear of more and more kids on Ritalin, and hear the number of “he is off his meds and dangerous to” himself or to me, the calls vary on the police scanner for San Diego, the more sure I am that it is our diets that is causing the troubles, and yes of course the meth and marijuana, etc.
I listen to 4 different towns on the internet, all the police scanners say the same thing, gangs, violence, and off their meds. LOL, sometimes they even have the crimes that we expect.
I like the lean to, solar greenhouses, they help the heating and cooling of the house, give you an area to play in the dirt, year round and grow more food than you would guess.
Post 588 here has the greenhouse book, that I consider the best that has been published, I have others but it is my ‘bible’ for all things greenhouse.
Have not heard the Adcock name connected to my family.
Have you noticed how often the Cherokee people ‘find” each other?
I have met people and say something about them being Cherokee, only to be told “Not me”, next time you see them, they have called mom or granny and discovered that they are.
I always meant to dig into the Cherokee history and got far enough to find Sally Roberts, an important leader of the Cherokee history, I forgot the details, she was in some history book..........LOL, and as my maiden name is Roberts, liked her at once.