Well looks like here we go again with all this
crazy food shortages stuff. Remember last time I said be ready for 9
months. This time I honestly think it would be very smart to plan for
over a year. More like 2 years to be able to feel comfortable for your
family.
I have shown my husband some prepper pantries on you tube anyone
would drool over. My mister neat freak says...."It looks like a grocery
store! Where would you put it all??!!!"
True some folks are lucky to not only have the money but a nice neat
place to store things for their future needs. What I did notice on a lot
of them were folks that cook like city people. If they run out of some
of those boxes bottles and cans they would have no clue on how to cook
from scratch or have many of the ingredients to do it if they wanted to.
That's another reason to have some of your families favorite recipes
written or typed up in your own little family 3 ring binder. If the
family cook gets out of commission someone else can fix the favorites.
I also think about some of those fancy words like renewable
resources. What the heck kind of mess do you have when you run out of
those wonderful stores of family nutritional foods? Where do you get
more if the trucks aren't delivering or the factories aren't running or
the ports continue to stay closed?
Our modern ways are not dependable any more. Some may be totally
unavailable for some people in some places. So maybe it's time to go
back to old school where we can! We can relearn some of the things that
big corporations have allowed us to forget in all our modern comfort.
It is extremely hard to be a self sufficient family all on your own
especially if your just feeling like you need to in our current
political climate. Working with others or church groups where you have
numerous people doing what they do best and everyone learning and
supplying each other is the best way to go in this day and age.
I ran across a website that will let you calculate how much food you
need for how many adults and children you have in your family or how
ever many people you want to have food available for.
I tried to put a PDF. of all the data I ran but I can't figure out how to get it in this. If I have the time I will try to get it in another post. In the mean time send me you email and I will try to send you what you request if you can't get it.
I have food needs for a year for 4, 25,100,1000 people in PDF
I also have a decent list of heirloom seeds you may want to try in PDF. Believe me this isn't a complete list of veggies but it's a start of things to look for. Get your seeds this year for next. The supplies are running short in many areas.
I also have a list of 50 Items for Survival and Victory in a PDF. There may be something in there you haven't thought about you can learn or stock up on. This link may be blocked because of the place it's coming from but you can try it.
For me I just figured I would call the children
adults since there are times in their growing they eat more than any
adult would. LOL Just out of curiosity I wanted to see how much food
different numbers of people would need for a year. So I ran the numbers
for a family of 4. A extended family of 25 ( you know aunts uncles etc.
people that didn't plan ahead). Then I thought about what about whole
churches or groups of people or small neighborhoods. I calculated for
100 people. Well shucks if you can calculate for a 100 people why not
whole small towns. So I calculated for 1000 adult folks. If your town is
bigger than that you can do some math.
WOW! On all levels. It is amazing what a small family goes through on
your standard stuff! If you want a bigger wow look at 100 people in
church or 1000 people in a small town can go though!
I got to looking at the list and realized mostly there are loads of
things that can be grown locally in not only Oklahoma but other states.
If the churches in these small towns or even individuals got together
and made a plan on growing these things the whole town wouldn't have to
depend on wally world for every little thing. You don't have to worry if
the trucks from across the United States are going to be able to
deliver so many needful things.
The best part of all is when a whole town is trying to supply their
own needs that makes for many ways to grow into other areas. People can
learn how to can or dry foods. Some of those churches have some really
fancy kitchens and I am sure there are people there that can teach other
people how to can tomatoes or make jelly or lots of other things. Since
canning lids may be scarce they can teach them how to dry veggies like
people did 100 years or so ago. There are so many possibilities. Local
cattle men can supply meat if there is a butcher in the area to be sold
or traded to the towns people.
Medicine may also be in short supply or unable to make it to our
country since many things are made in India or China. It wouldn't hurt
to have some of the people interested in herbal medicine to have
available some of the herbs that can be grown in the area and used for
medicinal purposes. I know that is something so far out in left field
for most people but if it comes down to you can't get a hold of your
meds and you feel like crud you got to try something!
For all those people trying to grow food that leaves a opening for
people with green thumbs to grow some garden plants to set out for folks
to buy or trade for. Learning to use heirloom seeds will sustain a
group for years.
Bread is such a staple for people. When the store runs out or your
pantry stores run out of the bread maker mix and your flour bin is
empty. Farmers can grow wheat. Just the processing of the wheat to get
it into a bakable form like in the grocery stores would supply a lot of
jobs for the local people. I know they say they can't get people to
work and a lot of them may be unable to work due to age or poor health
but I bet you can get forks to work and pay them with the food harvest.
There are options out there. It isn't hopeless. We just need folks
that can organize a community for food resources instead of trouble
making like we have seen on tv news in the past. Churches have the best
platform to reach more people and find more folks with the ability to do
some of these needful things.
Think about it...... it can be done..... if they did this 100's of
years ago with their limited tools and knowledge this should be a breeze
for the modern community.
Love
Ranchmama
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