Foraging vs Hunting vs Farming vs Stockpiling: Which One Triumphs? Survival may require us to be well rounded. There may come a time when hunting and gathering of wild edibles becomes an essential skill. How much food can you personally produce for your family by farming? Do you have a stockpile of long term food storage to see everyone through the tough times?
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41 Comments
What brand and model knife are you carrying in the video?
if you make noise post shtf, or are out and about in daylight, or show a light at night, you wont last a month before somebody shoots you. NO place in the US is more than a night's motorcycle ride and a night''s hike from MILLIONS of people and it only takes ONE to shoot you. You can't farm for at least a year, while the 99% die off. Then you''ll still have to settle for small, hidden plots of root veggies, peanuts and sprouts. in another year, half the remaining 1% will be dead. so you can have beans, squash, pumpkins. In another year, you can have sunflowers and corn. The fish and game will all be gone a month or 2 after shtf, eaten by the 100 million dogs and cats in the US, or by people. In another month the dogs and cats will have been eaten, too and the cannibalism will start in earnest.
traps, nets, trotines, Rotenone fish poison, snares and birdlime can all be set and checked at night, with night vision, Best have some pre-buried drums and salt, so you can get the jerky out of sight and out of reach of animals, insects, and moisture/rot.
if you have a garden before nearly everyone is dead,it will call in your killers and feed THEM, not you.
Wood Sorel the clover looking one ..yup cleavers great forage vid
Woods and costco lol prepping best friends feels good to have everything you need
You’re such a wealth of knowledge. Thanks for all that you’re doing.
On our stored food, I count servings instead of calories. 3 servings, 3 times a day per person. A serving of beans, rice and SPAM would be 1 meal. A serving of pasta, canned veggie and squirrel would be a meal. Not sure if this will starve us to death, but we keep cooking oil, (lard, Crisco, olive etc… ) to help with the calories. We also stock vitamins, veggie powders and quality protein powders.
We have a decent home gym, and I take creatine, so keep a years supply of that too. My conservative estimate is we have a years supply of food, plus meat rabbits that will produce enough protein for the family and dogs after 90 days of aggressive breeding. Just need to add fat. Feeding the bunnies might get tricky, but I've intentionally kept our mulberry trees. They love the leaves year round, wet or dry, not to mention the berries themselves. We also have buckets of seeds, but I don't farm enough to have confidence in adding that as a being any more reliable than foraging. I do compost and save rabbit poop in a compost. I picked up lots of cage building materials when first starting with the rabbits 8 years ago. (also raised them in the 80's) So can whip together enclosures for poultry quick enough. We aren't zoned for poultry, but if SHTF, zoning goes against my survival plan. Lots of locals have chickens and ducks. It's good to know the right people.
In a long term thing, I'm just as concerned with staying covert with our food, as I am with actually having food.
Wood sorrel
Wood sorrel is amazing in salads
Cleaver is correct on the one.
Heck I can't remember the other either. Lol .
Good stuff bro keep up the good work
We always called the sour clover sour grass. It's got a tart taste
The lemon-y tasting one is sorrel.
Mystery lemon tasting plant is Wood Sorrel
That's a great foraging knife. What is it?
Stock up on what foods you already eat but leave out the junk.
Do you put those bags of rice and beans into buckets or are they fine to store in the bags?
Oxalis wood sorrel
This is such a good perspective to share. I think folks don’t really realize what our modern world has allowed.
Great video.
I had told you that I'm in the woods once a week. I go in with a minimal amount of food and water. I do hunt for my food with a Barnett Cobra slingshot with a 5/8 and 3/4 inch ball bearing. A 3/4 inch ball bearing will kill a wild hog. Everytime I go hunting with the exception of twice I always come back with something. Mostly it's because of where I am here in Cajun country. You just have to pay close attention to what you do here or there's a really good chance that you will become the hunted instead of the hunter. Always watch your six. A good slingshot is more of a challenge. At thirty yards that turkey would be mine. Great video.
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My dream is to be able to get to a point where we can grow atleast 80% of our food then being able to store it through canning, dehydrating or freezing.
We can’t get rice and beans in big bags like that here in Australia
@ 2.20. I think it’s called “wood sorrel” in the uk.
Another fantastic video from my favorite YouTube ❤
Oxalis, then Bedstraw,
Those were not wild strawberry, it was Virginia creeper
Yep got to have stores and renewables if the worst were to happen
Great content. MORE on wild stuff please. PLEASE
Most of us suck at that. I personally could use the help for SWFL area. Just a thought
Lots to be spoken to in this video 😀 it's a good one. Without going too wordy (Ima bad for that) just two comments. The blackberry group of plants, the young leaves, if you harvest them, and ferment and dry them the same basic way you do for tea leaves (they are not as structural as tea) as a dried herb that you brew as a tea the brew is remarkably good (and there are people that list health benefits, I dont go past a hot drink and sunrise as a benefit in itself). At 2:12 Genus Oxalis Species anyones guess at this stage 🙂 The Lemon flavour comes from Oxalic acid. Generally edible but not recommended to people with kidney impairment due the oxalic acids in it (would fall in with other plants like spinach in dietary restrictions from the dr). I advise to eat oxalic acid rich foods with seeds, the phytic acid in seed strips the metals from the oxalic acid making the greens less toxic (in the scale of all salts of oxalic acic, calcium oxilate is the most toxic and the biggest suspect in the forming of kidney stones, and straight oxalic acid not bound is the least toxic and there is a fairly big difference in toxicity through the list of salts).
I personally believe the best system is have the stock pile of food for days you do come back with nothing or very little; if someone goes out and is able to forage 500 Calories and come home and supplement with 1500 from stock then only finding 500 doesn't hurt nearly as bad. Grow your some own food to raise your foraging success rate and quantity. I believe that if you go out hunting you should also be looking for edible plants to bring home or bear minimum bring home some firewood.
The sour plant is Oxalis(aka Wood Sorel as others pointed out below). FYI- In your video planting sweet potatoes a while back, when you pulled sand out the creek and found a little wiggly fish that looked like a worm, it was larval Lamprey, called an ammocoete. The live that way for several years filter feeding than mature to adults. Good sign of a healthy stream.
Great video brother. Hope we never have to use our skills. But things don't look very promising. You've always got a like minded brothers south east of you.
Hi Jason! Great video with very impressive knowledge👌! The plant you meant tasting like lemons we call in Austria Sauerklee (wood sorrel). Tastes good but do not get too much because it may have a laxative effect. Thank you for sharing and all the best from Austria 🇦🇹🤠👍🏕🔥
A bit off topic, but that is a beautiful American Bulldog! His breeding looks excellent. You guys have great lines in your neck of the woods!
Here in the uk that lemon tasting one is called wood sorrell.
Great video. Very balanced approach. We try to incorporate all prepping disciplines with our prepping. I believe there should be an additional skill added to that balance, and that is learning and practicing 19th century skills. The prospects of a total collapse of life as we know it is very real. We all need to be prepared for a life style of no power, no fuel, no internet, no cell phones, no grocery stores, and no modern day transportation. Include 19th century tools and other implements in your preps. Learn how to use them proficiently and develop the skills associated with those tools. My wife and I train often as if we are living in the 19th century. Cooking, food prep, herbal medicines just to name a few.
Hey, i really like the info on the wild edibles. Most of them seem like theyd be really light on calories even if they are edible though. Do you have any idea on caloric values for any of it? Weird question i know
Oxalis
I grow potatoes and other things in
5 gallon buckets and raised beds in my small backyard.
If I had the time I think I could grow most of my own food.
I live where I can have a winter garden and a summer garden.
The problem with foraging is that in many cases you burn more calories
Collecting it than you get from it.
If you are interested in acorns find some white oak acorns. They are big acorns and are easy to process.
Plant some and grow your own trees.
They grow pretty fast and in A few years will start producing acorns.
Trapping is part of self defence for the homesteader. Everything from mice and rats to raccoons and cototes needs to be addressed.
Rats and mice can and will eat your food and seeds. Snap traps should be set all around your food storage areas.
Raccoons will sooner or later find your coop and start killing your chickens.
You might go years with no problems but once a coon finds your coop he will keep coming back until they are all gone. Cototes are the same way.
Stray dogs will kill the whole flock in an hour if they can find a way into the coop.
Once critters find the coop they will nose around the bottom of the wire looking for a way under. Keep a box trap or two next to the wire that they can walk right into to.
You must be vigalent and keep live traps set
If raccoons can't find a way under they can climb over so keep that in mind.
Thanks for the video.