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Homemade MREs. The culinary flowers and herbs; beautiful, colorful, scented and … edible! Easy Make-Your-Own Vitamin C Supplements. Cold and flu season is upon us, and the best way to fight off viruses is to strengthen the immune sy...

Easy Make-Your-Own Vitamin C Supplements

Cold and flu season is upon us, and the best way to fight off viruses is to strengthen the immune system. Vitamin C is perhaps one of the best ways to do just that! This important vitamin can detoxify the body, promotes healing, and helps us deal with stress. Vitamin C supports the healthy bacteria in our gut, has anti-viral and anti-bacterial compounds, kills cancer cells, and neutralizes free radicals, just to name a few. Everyone, especially children, can benefit from consuming more vitamin C. You might not know that almost all vitamin C supplements are made from GMO corn. As you might imagine, eating foods that contain vitamin C is a much smarter, and a more potent, form of this vitamin than those store bought supplements. Seedsave.org. Seed Savers Exchange - Organic, Heirloom Garden Seed Info & Store.

Cowgirl's Country Life. Living Off the Land: 52 Highly Nutritious Wild-Growing Plants. Digg HJ: Organic is awesome, but there is nothing quite like wild growing foods.

Living Off the Land: 52 Highly Nutritious Wild-Growing Plants

Quite simply, foods that grow wild have the absolute highest life force energy and nutritional and medicinal benefits available. Despite major advances in growing methods in the last few hundred years, humans still cannot replicate the wisdom of Mother nature exactly. Survival Properties of Garlic and Apple Cider Vinegar. (Before It's News) Guest post by Garlic is one of the earth’s greatest health tonics and does indeed have scientifically-proven medicinal properties.

Survival Properties of Garlic and Apple Cider Vinegar

It contains a substance called Allicin, which has anti-bacterial properties that are equivalent to a weak penicillin. It is a natural antibiotic and is useful in treating everything from allergies to tonsillitis. Garlic contains many sulfur compounds which detoxify the body, boost the immune system, lower blood pressure and improve circulation. Photo credit. 600 Reasons Turmeric May Be The World's Most Important Herb.

Mother of all mushrooms discovered in China. China's Yunnan province is known as the "Kingdom of Mushrooms" for its rich diversity of more than 600 species of edible fungi.

Mother of all mushrooms discovered in China

But even the hungriest of mushroom fans might find this monster mushroom, recently discovered in Yunnan, a little hard to swallow. Fungi, including mushrooms, are neither plants nor animals and instead form their own group of living organisms that generally reproduce by spores and contain nuclei with chromosomes. Perhaps surprisingly due to their plantlike appearance, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. Herbs at a Glance [NCCAM Health Information] The Survival Spot Blog.

Throughout history honey has been considered a food with unparalleled nutritional and physical benefits.

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For over 10,000 years (and maybe more) honey has been used as a staple food and as a medicine. This deliciously sweet substance is one of the few foods that can actually sustain human life all by itself. If you’re not already storing honey as part of your survival strategy, learning about all the surprising benefits of honey ought to convince you to start. Storage. How to Save Your Seeds. I think the practice of saving seeds is due for a revival.

How to Save Your Seeds

Preparedness is Fundamental. Meet the Man Who Stalks the World's Biggest Fish. Find Locally Grown Food. Gardening in a drought. Guest post by Mark M.

Gardening in a drought

NOTE: This may be something to print out and store in your SurvivalMom Binder for future reference. image by International Center for Tropical Agriculture. FREE FOOD - Free Living 101 (SD).mp4. Food Tank: The Food Think Tank. Practical Survivor. NEW! MEGA Survival Kit. The All-in-1 MEGA SEED BANK is our biggest Seed Bank - ever!

NEW! MEGA Survival Kit

What's Included: 55 varieties of crops. ↓ scroll down the page to see all ↓ 112,000+ seeds in total.Pack of seed starting soil pods so you can start your seeds indoors. The Top 10 Healthiest Seeds on Earth. They come in all different sizes, shapes and colours.

The Top 10 Healthiest Seeds on Earth

The seed is an embryonic plant itself and the origin of nutrition. A plant goes to great lengths to produce each seed and fill it with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes. If you're looking for a high quality, nutritious and filling snack, seeds are tough to beat. Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of how ‘Pringles’ are Made. By Dr.

Cancer in a Can: The Shocking True Story of how ‘Pringles’ are Made

Mercola To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way.The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against “luxury foods” like chips in the UK) once even argued that the potato content of their chips was so low that they are technically not even potato chips.So if they’re not made of potatoes, what are they exactly? Survival Hardtack. Super Easy Survival Bread : BeSurvival.com. Like all things survival you need to LIVE IT day to day, not just stick it in a closet and hope you never have to use it! If you’re storing wheat and all hell breaks loose….what do you do?

Bake bread of course! But do you know how? If you are new to baking your own bread it can seem like a daunting task but it really isn’t. You don’t need yeast, sugar, baking soda, or really anything but flour and water. Super Easy Survival Bread (SESB) 1 cup of fine whole wheat flour (buy from store or grind your own) 2 tbsp. of olive oil (optional, also regular vegetable oil works too) 1 tsp. salt (optional, add more or less to taste) 1/2 cup of water Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and scoop it togther into a ball. Sustenance.

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