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Originally Posted by RandyWayne
Depending on where in the country you live, just having a couple of WEEKS of food puts you ahead of over 90% of the local population. Right now we have about three months of freeze dried stuff in what we call our "survival closest". I am really trying to get into container gardening to having fresh stuff by the time our stored food is running out but the problem here in the desert is water so we have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a rain water catching system installed as well. . . . .
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We have gone with the mylar bags, and plastic buckets... Rice, beans, sugar, salt etc.
It is VERY hard to have a garden here in the north. You need a greenhouse. I hope to get one for this summer. I did put up a LOT of vegetables last summer that we bought at a local produce stand for next to nothing. Makes me wonder if gardening here is worth all the trouble, when I can get such great veggies down the street and can them.
Have you ever tried dehydrating? I was listening to a lady speak about the fact that with dehydration that you keep about 80% of the nutrients, while in canning, you lose about 80% of the nutrients!
It is just that dehydrating is so time consuming, which is why we haven't tried it.
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