SALT is first...........preferably iodized. I have lived the hard times that few in the modern world have. Seal your salt good, bury it in multiple locations. One teaspoon per day is survival. Multiple water locations is second.
@@togetherweharvest Salt is a big item. You should have hundreds of pounds buried away for your family. More than 7 pounds per person per year. 5 for eating and at least 2 more for improvised soaps, toothpaste, curing and more. Anything to do with water would be another big item. 55-gallon water barrels, Activated carbon, silica sand for filtration. You can use charcoal, but when the emergency hits, people always overlook how big and important water and salt are. Other than that, learn about local edible plants, swamps, water holes in your neighborhood. learn to grow food without watering: timing, wood chips, and pee. make a stable family and community. You don't really need anything else. You can get by without.
@@GG-dq6dxneeds sunshine to run. It didn’t help with the days of dark skies in the days following Helene. My friend ended up using his old gas generator which he had no gas for because he was counting on using the really cool solar generator.
Rabbits..great meat, cheap to feed,can if needs be survive on greens/hay/leaves but best with a little supplementary pellets, reproduce fast, harvest the pelts too,and instant use manure.❤
You are correct. I talked about meat rabbits for a few minutes after my 'get poultry' section of the video, but then took it out while editing. I plan on creating a video about which livestock to get to help with difficult times. Rabbits is an excellent one. I raised meat rabbits for years. I sold the meat and ate a lot of it too.
The navy did a study in 1954, it concluded that rabbit meat has twice the protein than chicken. 2 months from birth to harvest, 6-8 bunnies per litter, the manure is fantastic in your garden and does not need time to compost
Really great advice. We are somewhat prepared, moved from the city in AB, Canada to the country in NS, Canada 1 yr ago and have had about 4 power outages due to tropical storms, longest one lasted 3 days. We very quickly purchased a multiple fuel generator, hot plate for cooking, and we already had 2 larger battery packs for charging our devices. Our house has a wood stove, almost everyone has one here, it’s very essential!!!
Thanks. Sounds like you've got a good mindset for preparing for bad situations. I like how most people there have wood stoves. There is no downside to having one, at least as a backup.
Im in the tropics, I dont have a wood stove or wood stored up, but i have years worth of LP...I started as a prepper, and still can consider myself a prepper, the difference is homesteading is looking at sustainability, prepping is more of consuming, but in both there is consumption of some kind.
@togetherweharvest My father was a banana farmer, so that's the main crop here, I have mango, Star fruit, bread fruit, lemon, grapefruit, bitter orange, annatto, star apple, and a bunch of other tropical fruits, I have both jungle fowl and laying chickens, a turkey, a goose, and 2 sheep ...it's pretty good here.
@togetherweharvest it rains 🌧 here a lot, I'm in a tropical rain forest, I'm 100% on rain water, rain water is ran through tap with 12v pumps, I can store over 13,000 gallons, I filter drinking and cooking water through a Berkey.
@@togetherweharvest The recommendation about getting a wood stove is so spot on. It is one item that I do not have, but will move it to the top of my list.
I would say this is region specific.... here in Louisiana... our winters last about 1-2 weeks and propane easily gets you through those times. Also, if the wood is wet (which is most of the time in this state) wood sucks.
It can vary from one region to another. However, you can still benefit from having firewood stored up. You need to cover your firewood for at least one year before burning it. If it's covered, it will dry.
I see where you are coming from. The idea of this video was to discuss overlooked items that many people don't think about. Food, housing, protection, water, etc. are obvious during hard times.
I do - I think lemon juice qualifies as a citric acid...I keep extra on hand year to year - a teaspoon in quarts 1/2 teaspoon in pints....you can water bath a lot of things . not meat, not green beans etc
SALT is first...........preferably iodized. I have lived the hard times that few in the modern world have. Seal your salt good, bury it in multiple locations. One teaspoon per day is survival. Multiple water locations is second.
This video was about overlooked items - bigger items.
@@togetherweharvest Salt is a big item. You should have hundreds of pounds buried away for your family. More than 7 pounds per person per year. 5 for eating and at least 2 more for improvised soaps, toothpaste, curing and more. Anything to do with water would be another big item. 55-gallon water barrels, Activated carbon, silica sand for filtration. You can use charcoal, but when the emergency hits, people always overlook how big and important water and salt are. Other than that, learn about local edible plants, swamps, water holes in your neighborhood. learn to grow food without watering: timing, wood chips, and pee. make a stable family and community. You don't really need anything else. You can get by without.
1:16 Wood Stove (melt snow, boil water, cook, purify water)
6:00 Generator (electric [preferred] or gas)
6:57 Food preservation (freezer, canner, dehydrator)
8:10 Poultry (Chickens, quail, geese, ducks. Scavengers. Downside is supplemental feed)
12:15 Grill (charcoal [preferred] or gas)
Surprise solar generator was not mentioned.
This is great info thank you. We'll presented too.
@@GG-dq6dxhe called it an electric generator and he showed a small oupes brand.
solar generator or electric generator are the same to me.
@@GG-dq6dxneeds sunshine to run. It didn’t help with the days of dark skies in the days following Helene. My friend ended up using his old gas generator which he had no gas for because he was counting on using the really cool solar generator.
Rabbits..great meat, cheap to feed,can if needs be survive on greens/hay/leaves but best with a little supplementary pellets, reproduce fast, harvest the pelts too,and instant use manure.❤
You are correct. I talked about meat rabbits for a few minutes after my 'get poultry' section of the video, but then took it out while editing.
I plan on creating a video about which livestock to get to help with difficult times. Rabbits is an excellent one. I raised meat rabbits for years. I sold the meat and ate a lot of it too.
The navy did a study in 1954, it concluded that rabbit meat has twice the protein than chicken. 2 months from birth to harvest, 6-8 bunnies per litter, the manure is fantastic in your garden and does not need time to compost
Really great advice. We are somewhat prepared, moved from the city in AB, Canada to the country in NS, Canada 1 yr ago and have had about 4 power outages due to tropical storms, longest one lasted 3 days. We very quickly purchased a multiple fuel generator, hot plate for cooking, and we already had 2 larger battery packs for charging our devices. Our house has a wood stove, almost everyone has one here, it’s very essential!!!
Thanks.
Sounds like you've got a good mindset for preparing for bad situations. I like how most people there have wood stoves. There is no downside to having one, at least as a backup.
Im in the tropics, I dont have a wood stove or wood stored up, but i have years worth of LP...I started as a prepper, and still can consider myself a prepper, the difference is homesteading is looking at sustainability, prepping is more of consuming, but in both there is consumption of some kind.
Well said.
Prepping where you live vs where I live would be quite different. You have the luxury of growing food all year (depending on the crop).
@togetherweharvest My father was a banana farmer, so that's the main crop here, I have mango, Star fruit, bread fruit, lemon, grapefruit, bitter orange, annatto, star apple, and a bunch of other tropical fruits, I have both jungle fowl and laying chickens, a turkey, a goose, and 2 sheep ...it's pretty good here.
Putting a cast iron pan or pot inside the stove is awesome!
Agreed. Good cooks really fast too
My number one would be land. Not just any land. A land that can support these 5 overlooked items.
Agreed. This video is specifically about overlooked items, assuming typical things like land, food and water are accounted for.
Where I live, free range chickens become some critter's lunch pretty quickly.
Yep. It doesn't work for everyone. Finding cheap fencing is not hard.
Get a charcoal chimney and with 3 pieces of paper you can get your charcoal going. No petroleum product starter.
I have one actually. Works great!
Water is number 1; 3 days without that - you die
100% correct, but the reason nobody touches this is because less than 1% have this prep covered.
Everyone agrees with that. The intention of this video was to encourage people to think about less obvious things to get - overlooked items.
@togetherweharvest it rains 🌧 here a lot, I'm in a tropical rain forest, I'm 100% on rain water, rain water is ran through tap with 12v pumps, I can store over 13,000 gallons, I filter drinking and cooking water through a Berkey.
@@togetherweharvest The recommendation about getting a wood stove is so spot on. It is one item that I do not have, but will move it to the top of my list.
excellent advice. much appreciated!
Thank you.
Glad it was helpful.
I would say this is region specific.... here in Louisiana... our winters last about 1-2 weeks and propane easily gets you through those times. Also, if the wood is wet (which is most of the time in this state) wood sucks.
Which is why you cover it….
@@janetnorris2255 🤣
How about 40 below . @@martimcgowan-chitwood761
It can vary from one region to another. However, you can still benefit from having firewood stored up. You need to cover your firewood for at least one year before burning it. If it's covered, it will dry.
No lead for protection or varmit Killin? That might have been my first.
I see where you are coming from. The idea of this video was to discuss overlooked items that many people don't think about.
Food, housing, protection, water, etc. are obvious during hard times.
Can you just use a water bath canner ? Do you just have to add citric acid if you want to water bath tomatoes ?
I do - I think lemon juice qualifies as a citric acid...I keep extra on hand year to year - a teaspoon in quarts 1/2 teaspoon in pints....you can water bath a lot of things . not meat, not green beans etc
@@conniewright8080 thank you ! What vegetables can't be water bath canned?
Hmmm....i need chickens.
@@gypsy1111 all foods we commonly think of as vegetables such as squash, peppers, beans, potatoes, etc.
@@ShilohsBride so vegetables can't be water bath canned ?
WATER
Obviously.
This video was about overlooked items people may not consider.