We just paid off our farm and there’s a small house with a heatalator, a 1 1/2 acre pond, a huge shop building with a wood burning stove, lots of standing timber, and its remote, on a gravel road that doesn’t go anywhere. We’ve been talking about doing this and this makes sense. I do want to know how long I can store food though.
They found some wheat in ancient Egyptian burial vaults that was 2,000 years old. They were able to germinate it.
They ground some of the wheat and baked it into bread.
Everyone who ate it turned into mummified zombies.
George A. Romero used many of these people in his movies.
Always be careful of anything old you find and eat. You don't know where it's been.
It's in its umpteenth edition. This woman kept expanding this masterpiece of self-sufficiency through her own research and the input of our elders who had taken care of themselves.
It's a gold mine of practical information our grandparents and great-grandparents could share with us personally if they were all still around.
It covers everything from raising chickens, cattle, vegetable gardens and a million other things.
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/current/FDNS-E-34-1.html
(LOng term food storage)
I discovered while doing some class planning (I'm a certified disaster recovery dude & teach a few classes a year) that
Dried food has a 12 to 15 week lead time, IF they will take your order (Rainy Day, NitroPak,, etc)
Oregon Freeze dried foods (Mountain house) no longer will sell #10 cans of food “to the general public” - I confirmed that one personally - they would not comment on WHY, just that they WON”T. Odd to say the least.
You might consider restaurant supply sources for bulk vegis and potatoes etc.
Oh, and the NZ canned cheese is wonderful
Merry Christmas to all and to all a....stay awake and be prepared!
Wheat, properly stored, will last upwards of 10 years. I've stored it in plastic 5-gallon buckets with a mylar liner.
Canned meat lasts several years if you keep it in a cool dry place.
Honey will last practically forever.
Best thing to do is buy familiar foods, date the containers, use the oldest stuff first and keep replacing what you've used.