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Food Forever: Small Footprint Disaster Food Production - DRH Part 4: #96

Food Forever: Small Footprint Disaster Food Production - DRH Part 4: #96

Listen to the Podcast: Click Here - Today Creek and I are gonna finish up our discussion on building a “FOREVER FOOD” system… Which is all about how you can grow, raise and forage for some or all of your food needs FOREVER in the event of a catastrophic / long term interruption in your food supply.

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Today We’ll Get Into:

  • Everything you need to start a highly productive, raised bed garden (almost anywhere) using Heritage seeds.
  • Urban and Rural Beekeeping.
  • Why having a small footprint food production plan is so important.  
  • Edible and medicinal plant landscapes around our homes. 
  • Traditional ways to preserve your food
  • How to UTILIZE your FOREVER FOOD - Surplus as a valuable BARTER asset in a worst case scenario situation… 

• And a lot more...

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Links Mentioned in Podcast:

David’s Introduction to BeeKeeping Video: https://youtu.be/RvNjbebhd5I

Excalibur Food Dehydrators https://excaliburdehydrator.com/

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables

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No Dig Gardening Book https://amzn.to/3rQLHBX

Back to Basics (Classic Book) https://amzn.to/3BnevFg

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[OVERVIEW]

Today Creek and I are gonna finish up our discussion on building a “FOREVER FOOD” system… Which is all about how you can grow, raise and forage for some or all of your food needs FOREVER in the event of a catastrophic / long term interruption in your food supply.                 

Today We’ll Get Into:

  • Everything you need to start a highly productive, raised bed garden (almost anywhere) using Heritage seeds.
  • Urban and Rural Beekeeping.
  • Why having a small footprint food production plan is so important.  
  • Edible and medicinal plant landscapes around our homes. 
  • Traditional ways to preserve your food
  • How to UTILIZE your FOREVER FOOD - Surplus as a valuable BARTER asset in a worst case scenario situation… 

• And a lot more...

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[DISCUSSION POINTS]

CREEK! Welcome to the show brother.

MAIN TOPIC: Long Term Food Storage for Sheltering in Place: PART 3: Forever Food

Small Plot / Small Footprint Food Production - OVERVIEW [Creek] David add… 

  • Who is this FOR?
  • Why is it IMPORTANT? 
  • Can Anyone Do this?

URBAN or Apartment Dwellers - Discuss Simple Options (For Urban Folks and Apartment Dwellers):

For those who may not have the option for large scale farming but still want to produce at least some of their own food.

  • Container / Trellis / Window Garden / Victory Garden
  • Reintroduce Sprouting - EVERYONE Can Sprout.
  • MANY Cities have community gardens and CSA (we’ll talk more about this later). 

Urban and Rural BEE KEEPING

  • David’s Experience
  • Thoughts?
  • Creek limited Experience
  • LINK: David’s Introduction to Beekeeping Video

Gardening w/ Heritage Seeds

  • Raised beds
  • Tips for Getting Started (Creek)
  • What to Plant for Beginners?
  • Composting / Up Cycling Food Scraps / Grass Cuttings (Carbon (leafs, card board) / Nitrogen (greens/grass clipping)) 
  • Volunteers - Wild things that grow in gardens that you want to leave: Purslane, Lambs Quarter 

Edible Landscaping

  • Fruit trees
  • Berry bushes
  • Herbs
  • Flowering Trees
  • Ostrich Ferns
  • Solomon’s Seal
  • Roses
  • Milkweed
  • Daylily

Preserving Produce

  • Freeze Drying
  • Canning (Meats - Pressure Canning) 
  • Cold Storage (winter) - Root Cellar
  • Smoking Meat
  • Dehydrating

WILD FORAGING

  • How to Get Started?
  • Practical?
  • Local parks
  • Foraging Maps
  • Strategic Planting (Secret Wild Survival Gardens) - Milkweed, Jerusalem Artichoke, Parsnip

NEXT BEST THING TO FOREVER FOOD – Know Someone with FOREVER FOOD or BE Someone with Forever Food

Discuss the Power of FOOD Bartering - You can’t eat silver and goal. A long term food stash is a powerful barter item. 

Work Part-time at Farm for Barter

  • All farms need help and may be open to trading part time work for food
  • Services/goods for barter
  • Key: Establish Relationships NOW!
  • Dairy
  • Honey (the Original Sugar)
  • Beef
  • Chickens
  • Produce
  • Hay / Alfalfa (for feeding rabbits, etc.)

Find and Join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and Volunteer in trade for a share of the Food.

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