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80+ Recipes For Home Canning: {Fruits & Vegetables. Today’s Recipe Hit List is a handy reference sheet listing dozens of different tutorials and recipes for canning assorted fruits and vegetables.

80+ Recipes For Home Canning: {Fruits & Vegetables

I’ve handpicked these from around the net and focused on featuring those that are for long term storage (though there are a small number that go straight to the refrigerator, these are noted). It's Satisfying To Stock Up The Pantry With Canned Goods This collection highlights garden fresh produce that is pickled, packed in syrups or just in water and I’ve sorted them alphabetically (by vegetable or fruit item) so it will be easy to find what you’re looking for. If you’re more interested in jams, jellies and spreads, many have been already organized on other pages here (with some fruit butters and sauces referenced in the main alphabetical list below): Note: As with all the tips and lists here on Tipnut, this page will be updated as I come across new goodies so you may want to bookmark this page for reference.

Food & Garden. Seed & Plant Catologs. Survival Gardening: Part 1. First of all what is survival?

Survival Gardening: Part 1

It is quite simply what we’ve all been doing since we were born. We provide for ourselves shelter, fire, water, medical, food, and social life, these are the foundation of our existence. Without these core principals, our very existence is at risk. Supply Chain. Urban Survival Garden. Survival Garden - Be Prepared For Disaster or Food Shortage Emergency. A Basic Vegetable Garden. In a global catastrophe, the vegetable garden zooms to prominence to ensure survival food.

A Basic Vegetable Garden

A basic primer to plant vegetables for simple survival. Tip on locations of global seed banks, including the doomsday seed bank or Norwegian Seed Bank and the Millennium Seed Bank in the USA. Your urban survival gear includes: garden hoe, almanac, bagged potatoes and vegetable seeds. 11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime. Please accept our apologies.

11 Emergency Food Items That Can Last a Lifetime

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Primitive Cooking Techniques

Survival Gardening 2. How to Preserve Food by Robert Wayne Atkins. How to Preserve Food for Future Consumption Using Three Simple Old Fashioned Methods Copyright © May 7, 2010 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All Rights Reserved. Click Here for a Microsoft WORD printer friendly copy of this article. Basic Food Safety Precautions Wash your hands thoroughly before handling any type of food. The Three Traditional Food Preservation Methods There are three simple ways to preserve food using traditional old fashioned procedures that do not require any special chemicals, or salt, or equipment: In the ground.

In the Ground (Appropriate for Carrots and Radishes in the Fall) Leave the vegetables in the original ground where they grew during the summer. Aquaculture. Global harvest of aquatic organisms in million tonnes, 1950–2010, as reported by the FAO [1] Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.[2][3] Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater and saltwater populations under controlled conditions, and can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is the harvesting of wild fish.[4] Broadly speaking, finfish and shellfish fisheries can be conceptualized as akin to hunting and gathering while aquaculture is akin to agriculture.[5] Mariculture refers to aquaculture practiced in marine environments and in underwater habitats.

Aquaculture

According to the FAO, aquaculture "is understood to mean the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from predators, etc. History[edit] Species groups[edit] Aquaponics. What Is Aquaponics?

Aquaponics

Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (raising plants in water). In Aquaponics, you grow fish and plants together in one system with no soil. But what happens in real life is a little more complicated than I expected. This page is all about my experience from the beginning and also why I decided to go with Aquaponics. What Is Aquaponics — My Family Survival Plan. Lately I’ve been working on a project that can make anyone self-sustained.

What Is Aquaponics — My Family Survival Plan

The project is called “Backyard Liberty” and it introduces a new concept called Aquaponics (actually the concept is new to mainstream media but there are tens of thousands of people already using this concept because it’s so easy to use and the return of investment is huge). I decided to share with you a couple of paragraphs from “Backyard Liberty” and if you want to know more please use the following URL: backyardliberty.com. Survival Gardening. Survival gardening can provide fresh food for you and your family in the aftermath of a disaster.

Survival Gardening

Disasters can occur at anytime and anywhere, and take many forms. Not all disasters are dramatic and natural. For some people a severe economic downturn can be a disaster. Having garden seeds on hand before a disaster strikes is like having homeowners or rental insurance. You hope you will never need it but should the need arise you will be thankful that you have it. There are many types of garden seeds available.

Root Cellaring - Modern Homesteading - MOTHER EARTH NEWS - Root Cellaring. Of all the satisfactions to be had from growing and keeping vegetables and fruits, surely none is sweeter than that of selecting from crates of your own stored produce to feed your family in the dead of winter.

Root Cellaring - Modern Homesteading - MOTHER EARTH NEWS - Root Cellaring

It's February as we write this, and the ground is ringing-hard. Ice glazes the lane, and the trees bend to the howling of the wind. We'll have fresh vegetables for dinner today, though — not from the store, but from our root cellar. We've just brought up a bowl of potatoes, a pocketful of carrots, a head of Chinese cabbage, a few apples and a big beet — the makings of a nourishing stew, a crisp salad and a baked apple dessert.

All this — and more — can be yours without boiling jars or filling freezer bags. Stashing foods in the root cellar is simple once you've done the work of enclosing the space. To understand why root cellars work, consider first that vegetables are still alive after they've been harvested. Survival Food Preparation and Food Storage List. Don’t Forget The Kettles!

Survival Food Preparation and Food Storage List

Survival - Pioneer Living Survival. 9 Steps To Starting A Survival Garden. Survival Garden, Be Prepared For Disaster or Food Shortage Emergency. One-Year Emergency Food Supply by Robert Wayne Atkins. Traditional One-Year Emergency Food Supply For One Adult (3,000 Calories per Day) Copyright © 2008,2014 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All Rights Reserved. Introduction The original retail price for each food item was established at the beginning of the year 2008 on January 9, 2008. The Total Retail Cost for the entire one-year emergency food supply on January 9, 2008 was $1,385 in the Southeastern United States. Survival Food Series: 25 Survival Seeds You Need For Your Garden.

Living off the land sounds as inviting as Christmas dinner. But many have hardly had adequate experience being “farmers.” In fact, many have had no experience at all when it comes to planting anything. That being said, the day is slowly approaching where each of us may have to trade in our company identification badges for a shovel and a pair of overalls. Educating yourself on farming topics such as mirco farming, planting for the seasons, natural insect repellents, seed collection and seed storage could help prepare for an upcoming economic crisis. Learn about how many vegetables or fruits the plant will yield.

Start Practicing The only way to be fully prepared as far as growing plants is concerned is to practice, practice, practice.