Anyone growing or canning your own food?

dmnEPC

dmnEPC

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Been getting more serious about preparing. With the just in time philosophy that business's follow now a day's, getting food could be a real concern. It could be a storm, or who knows what. I am not to crazy about buying a shit ton of stuff I will never eat. So I have began to look more and more into growing food.

Does your mom let you plant a garden in her basement or in her backyard? Im more curious if any of you guys are canning? I know just about zero about canning, but have been reading about people canning full meals. I fully intend to follow the Buy what you eat, eat what you buy philosophy. And the idea of opening a couple jars and heating it up for a quick 5 minute meal very appealing.

I am considering buying a pressure caner,dehydrator, and a vacuum sealer. It looks like the possibilities are endless.

Anyone currently doing this stuff? Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.


A good read on food security by backwoods home
 


I have a garden every year and can home made salsa but thats it. You could can pretty much anything though. It's basically just boiling it to kill all bacteria in a air tight mason jar or whatever else.
 
I have about 100+ mason jars for this year ready to go. This year's garden will be about 100ft x 50ft or so.

Hoping to can beans & tomato as we go through both quite a bit.
 
schockergd said:
I have about 100+ mason jars for this year ready to go. This year's garden will be about 100ft x 50ft or so.

Hoping to can beans & tomato as we go through both quite a bit.
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Are you doing any full meals? When I think of canning I think

Garden
Process
Can

My eyes have recently been opened to the possibilities of

garden
processing
cooking meals (with meat)
canning

I am curious as to how these "meals" in jars taste. Obviously garbage in garbage out.
 
My mom always did as a kid. She'd buy bushels of produce at the farmer auction and can with a couple friends over a couple days for the year. Tastes so much better than store bought shit when you make stuff with PICKED RIPE ingredients.
 
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dmnEPC said:
Heard about some guy that grew something like a million pounds of food on 2 1/2 acres using Aquaponics. Ill try to find that article
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I'm pretty sure its this guy

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozvrp_uTH98"]Growing Power.mov - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs7BG4lH3m4"]Growing Power - A Model for Urban Agriculture - YouTube[/ame]
 
I decided I will hunt when the doomsday comes. We need to stay connected, I might exchange some wild forest pigs with vegetables from your garden.

Also, in case of doomsday please DO NOT exchange your vegetables for the meat ShadowCaster will offer you. He is up to roadkill and I don't see him changing his nutritional habits anytime soon.
 
food storage

Get a water bath canner (for foods with high acid content) and a pressure canner for everything else. After that you will be set. Easiest way to get into food storage prepping is by buying red wheat and a grinder. Wheat lasts for 30 years when properly stored. It's the basics that you should start with, then add on top of that.
My favorite thing to can is peaches and pears. Add some cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, vinegar and you have spiced peaches that taste fresh all year. We also do green beans, corn, black beans, tomatoes, salsa, jam. I dont grow any of it, just buy it from farmer stands.
 
-joe- said:
You can last a reasonable while without food. What kind of situation are you planning for?
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Doomsday preppers with underground bunkers, excess food, cans, gardens, etc, prep for lots of good reasons. Some people don't understand or know what sort of situations but it all makes sense once somebody figures it all out. The mass sheep are sleeping & need to wake up to what's really.. going on in the world. Truth is, we live in a scary reality called Life. Never know when SHTF and the world becomes chaotic. Lots of scary & possible scenarios :


1. Pandemic Disease Outbreak or Bioweapon hitting the masses
2. Civil Unrest / Riots
3. Martial Law
4. Tyranny / Dictatorship
5. When & If the Government tries to take people's guns away because of too many mass shootings and Obama signing executive order which will cause a MASSIVE civil war. Gov vs American Citizens
6. The Economic & Financial Collapse where one day the US Dollar becomes worthless, the day when Global Elite & Bankers brag they have conquered the world and successfully bankrupted the nation
7. When the Bible & Book of Revelation's prophecies come true & become a reality. The day when there's a New World Order, One Government, One Religion, One Currency, and when the Planet Earth - World Dictator (aka Antichrist) forces the "Mark of the Beast" upon human inhabitants and those without the mark cannot buy or sell.... resulting in death cause of hunger & resources. Many people speculate it is the mandatory RFID coming in the future. Bible & Book Of Revelation states it will be implemented either in the right hand or on the forehead.
8. When the biblical period of Tribulation happens (future 7 year period where God brings hell on earth) and the Rapture. Very deep & interesting. There are lots of documentaries out there that help people understand the bigger picture and why it's happening
9. etc.

It's always smart to prep! Good-Forward-Thinking = A Smart Person :) I think LukeP may know all about this very well.

Some Interesting & Awesome Documentaries to get educated, aware, and awake :
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=player_embedded]The Obama Deception HQ Full length version - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-CrNlilZho&feature=player_embedded]The Obama Deception HQ Full length version - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO24XmP1c5E&feature=player_embedded]Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined Full (Order it at Infowars.com) - YouTube[/ame]
 
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