You can save a LOT of money, and get nutritionally superior food for getting your family, or community through tough times, by growing it yourself. You just need to make sure you pick the right crops that can actually get you through tough times. Here’s an infographic we thought would help you in picking the best survival food for growing during long term disaster scenarios.
Health and Safety
Survival Food Series: Medicinal Plants for the Survival Garden
Plants have been revered through out history for their magical healing powers. In a dire situation where over the counter medicine is no longer available, many will be forced to turn their backs on modern medicine and reacquaint themselves with more homeopathic and natural forms.
Survival Food Series: Secret Survival Garden
Those who have thought of long term emergency situations and how to secure their land, food and possessions, have also thought of how to grow food, yet keep it hidden at the same time. Having your garden in an inconspicuous location will not only ensure OPSEC (operational security), but also to discourage others from seeing what you are growing. Here are some tips on how to achieve the impossible.
Survival Medicine: New Wound-Closure Method That Could Replace Stitches
In a world without medical facilities, open wounds can invite serious, life threatening infections. To the untrained eye, it could cause death. A new invaluable and less invasive medical tool could be the answer to safer and improved wound closure.
SURVIVE ANYTHING! Chapter 1: Nuclear Attack
We’ve all seen movies and read books of nuclear holocaust, and the utter despair it could conceivably initiate. Of course, nuclear attack should not be underestimated, far from it. However, rarely in these films or fictional accounts do you see characters who prepared before hand, who had readied themselves physically and psychologically for the aftermath.
Surviving a Mad Max World: How To Avoid Marauders and Looters After the Collapse
A mad max scenario is one of the worst-case scenarios one can prepare for. The adage “if you can’t protect you don’t own it” rings true in this case. Long-term survival plans that reflect this type of disaster suggest preppers getting away from urban and suburban living and heading for hills. While this would be the safest option, there are dangers that lurk for those who plan to “live off the land.” Because in a post-collapse world – they will come for all that you own.
Surviving Poverty Part 1: How to Live in a Van
If homelessness is a real possibility in your life, it’s something that you should be preparing for, not waiting for.
Surviving Poverty Part 2: Staying Warm on the Streets
According to some estimates, as many as 700 homeless people die from hypothermia in America on a yearly basis.
Surviving the Urban Jungle
After major disasters that occur in urban areas, crime waves typically follow. Those individuals that are antagonizing the societal breakdowns are typically the citizens that are ill equipped and unprepared to survive. How can a person survive an urban disaster? Should a person bunker down or evacuate the city? The answer lies in preparedness.
Survival Cross Training – It’s Not Just For The Gym: 17 Skills Everyone In Your Family Should Learn
Cross-training – it’s not just for the gym! Ensure that your family doesn’t rely too much on any one person by having everyone pitch in to learn the different tasks necessary for survival.