Just wonder how long you could survive with just the food you have RIGHT NOW.
I believe we could go for up to one year. Right now we have few hundred cans and jars of home and from store fruit ,veges and meats.
Freezer full of meats which I would have to a lot to smoke to preserved for longer time. Self supplies of milk and eggs.
Up to a year supplies of flour for making bread. Couple hundred battles of vine. Endless supply of fresh water. Enough gas to run chain saws and generator plus my solar system.
How about you ?
Henry
I've survived in the bush for the better part of a month with only a knife and snare wire. The Atlantic is about a mile down the road with available marine life year round. It would be hard work, but survival is possible indefinitely from what the land could provide (as long as our health isn't a problem).
In a lock-down situation, I suspect that we have three or four months of supplies. In a no power scenario, water can be pumped by hand from the well into the pressure system without leaving the house. The septic system is always on-line and independent. We can flush the toilet and take a shower and stay inside without the need to leave the house for any reason.
None you improvise, one (or more) is luxury.
Just wonder how long you could survive with just the food you have RIGHT NOW.
Up to a year supplies of flour for making bread. Couple hundred battles of vine. Endless supply of fresh water. Enough gas to run chain saws and generator plus my solar system.
How about you ?
Henry
A good time! Eggs and milk I am weak on, but working on it
Also, no issue with wood, water and soil to grow stuff. Until depleted by neighbors, decent wild game in turkeys, deer, coyotes....
Looking at trying to plant wild rice this spring along creek, pond and drainage ditch I have
Have some rivers not too far away that I can catch some fish, my creek has small fry bait but would help in a pinch, plus it attracts birds, muskrats, beaver... ducks land in a few of my pons or low lying areas in the spring and fall so another source of meat.
Envy Wayne’s access to ocean!
6-12 months. We staples for 6-12 plus two freezers/ 30 rabbits I can breed and 3 chickens/ I can trap and hunt and my 2600sq ft raised garden is ready to plant when the snow melts. We need more veggies/fruit/ meat alternatives/ wood/ berkey to save work. We would survive but we're still weak from the last two year job slow down. Also wild foraging would help immensely. We could trade for a beef from neighbors. Three farmers with around 150 cows together. Most pregnant. Lots of work to do still. I'm striving for some luxury dining to keep morale up but basics is all I got for storables. It sounds like a lot but if some family and my MAG buddy and some of his family come wed have to work 24/7 to protect and increase our production to keep everyone fed. That's the stuggle. Feeding the sheeple in your circle. To be fair I'd have a cache and possibly supplies from my MAG buddy if he didn't have issues getting here. My mum has quite a few staples too
Also, no issue with wood, water and soil to grow stuff. Until depleted by neighbors, decent wild game in turkeys, deer, coyotes....
Looking at trying to plant wild rice this spring along creek, pond and drainage ditch I have
Have some rivers not too far away that I can catch some fish, my creek has small fry bait but would help in a pinch, plus it attracts birds, muskrats, beaver... ducks land in a few of my pons or low lying areas in the spring and fall so another source of meat.
Envy Wayne’s access to ocean!
Makes me think of the thousands of geese flying over the house 2-3 months a year
in moving and re moving . . . i found some issues my ex left me with. she had an anxiety issue and would do things to relieve that. . . this often involved moving things. for example. she moved 15 dozen cans of dog food to the barn, might have last longer if she didn't have them in a tote and put it under the only damn drip in the 80x40 foot 3 level bar . . . so that tote filled with water and cans rusted and burst. it was a horrible smell and mess. as well as a big loss.
but more recently i found she hadn't been rotating cans and a number of old cans were kinda hidden and very out of date as well some had rust. only a couple can failutres but i had to toss about 500lbs of canned food . . . utterly heart broken over that, i hate to waste food when so many are hungry.
saying that, i haven't topped up my cans very much yet.
i have about 100 lbs of freeze dried fruits and veggies. as well as eggs, butter, and milk.
700lbs rice, 1400 wheat, 200 lbs oats, 500 beans, 500 plus pasta. but i like food to taste good, so 50 lbs of spice and a couple hundred lbs of salt and sugar
i think it was peggy layton that said "you can't live off bread alone, but you can live off bread and soup alone" and soup can be endless. think of the very old days when a pot was always on the fire and water/veggies and meat were always added. a buddy did this for a month and lived off only that. (he did put it in the fridge after cooking to not die from bacterial growth) he liked it well enough.
sooooo, how long can i eat? a while. . . . and i have 10 of 1000's of seeds.
i have to get more fruit trees, i should be eye brow deep in fruit but the flood took them all 🙁
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