RICE FRUIT CUSTARD

Regardless to popular belief, corn is not a good crop for surviving a SHTF Doomsday event.

When the topic of food crops for SHTF comes up in the forum, there is one that is talked about more than others, and that is corn. There is a common misconception that all someone needs to do to grow corn is to plant the three sisters – beans, squash and corn.

In theory, the beans are supposed to supply the corn with much needed nitrogen. While beans and peas produce their own nitrogen, it is not in a form that can be easily used by other crops. In other words, there is more to growing corn than just planting beans with it.

Then there are the various types of corn. Corn seed we get from the local farm supply store is a far cry from native corn grown by indigenous Native American tribes.

Corn After SHTF

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25 GLASS GEM CORN SEEDS HEIRLOOM 2021 ORGANIC ( U.S SELLER! NON-GMO!) – $2.08

BOONE COUNTY WHITE CORN SEEDS – NON-GMO, HEIRLOOM, VEGETABLE FARM & GARDENING – $2.61

CORN, ASHWORTH SWEET, HEIRLOOM, ORGANIC 20+ SEEDS, DELICIOUS AND SWEET KERNELS – $1.79

CORN SEED, GOLDEN BEAUTY SWEET CORN, HEIRLOOM, ORGANIC, NON GMO, 100+ SEEDS – $6.50

101+ Indian Corn Seeds – EASIEST CORN TO GROW BY FAR! – Ornamental Corn – NONGMO – $6.98 […]

When survivalist start stockpiling food, we buy #10 cans and usually store food in mylar bags. Lets say we had to focus on certain foods, what would those foods be? Lets look at food that packs a nutritional punch, renewable, easy to grow, easy to harvest and can be stored without modern technology.

How do we decide which foods we should focus on? Lets narrow our selections to how easy the food is to grow, how well it stores, and the nutrition content.

During a long term SHTF / TEOTWAWKI survival situation, we will being growing and storing our own food. One thing we do not want to do is dedicate a lot of time and effort into food that contains little nutrition.

In this article I hope to focus on renewable foods. Foods that we can grow in a home garden or at a Bug Out Location. During a long term survival situation, people that hope to make it through will need a renewable food source. It is not enough to stockpile food in mylar bags, or stockpile freeze dried food in #10 cans. Sooner or later those mylar bags and those cans will be empty. […]