by Grain | | Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Essentials, food crisis, Food Supply, Preparation
Most of the so-called domesticated foods grown in backyard gardens and commercial nurseries today started out as wild foods. In years past Native Americans and others would routinely go on food foraging expeditions to look for wild edibles. The people familiar with...
by Grain | | Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Essentials, Preparation, Survival
If you’ve ever seen a tornado, you know what a powerful and terrifying thing this unpredictable natural disaster can be. If you live in a place where a tornado is possible (like “Tornado Alley”) you need to make preparations. You will want to know...
by Grain | | Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Essentials, Preparation
In our preparedness planning, it is important that we go beyond food storage and consider other preparedness essentials. While food and water storage is critical, we should also look at preparing for potential short-term and long term disaster or emergency...
by Grain | | Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Essentials, food crisis, Food Supply, Long Term Storage, Meat and Dairy Storage, Preparation
We have always heard that a person can live without food for 30 days, but can not survive longer than 3 days without water. But for individuals who are dependent on solid foods, it would certainly be difficult for them to make it through and thrive during an...
by Grain | | food crisis, Food Supply, Gardening, growing food, Long Term Storage, seeds
Many people consider food storage to be one of the most important areas for survival planning. Certainly, we won’t argue the fact that food storage is a vital part of preparedness planning for crisis situations, but, food storage alone is not a complete...