#surviving on garden food

[survivalpreps]

[master-jarrus]

Okay so Trump has won now what?

I don't really know

But here is what I do know

The listeria outbreaks are from Trump deregulating food back in his first term

So I would recommend looking into a vegetarian diet or a local butcher, it will be pricier

You can also raise meat animals, lots of places will allow a small number of chickens and they get fed pretty much your compost and you can feed your eggs back to them (it's actually really good for them)

If it's an apartment look into quail

You can also do rabbits anywhere because they classify as pets but you wouldn't be keeping them as pets and I can tell from experience from when my parents attempted to keep rabbits, they are assholes and very hard to maintain

You can also hunt but you may need to take weeks off of work for it

Trump also wants to put a 25% tariff on anything from mexico

That is 90-99% of all your food depending on where you live. I am on the southern border so everything local except milk is from mexico

I recommend a garden and plan it out with your friends

You are not going to be able to replace everything especially not with the abundance needed

There may be things that you eat a lot of that even if your friends have it you should grow anyways

Most common is tomatoes. Especially if you have anything with ketchup and tomato sauce

A good plan is to evaluate what you eat, I mean break down everything into it's bare ingredients

That way you can get a good look at what you consume the most

Take one meal at a time so it's not overwhelming also consider what foods you are willing to sacrifice

This is a small start of what I can think of. These are things you want to start now so it's established by January

It might be good to join self sustainability groups like homesteaders or preppers but only if you can keep your mouth shut on anything political

And I mean like your tongue is under lock and key, if they ask because you are being quiet you just shrug and go "I don't really invest in politics"

[yearzerosurvival]

[icewindandboringhorror]

If you became super rich and could design your own house, but could only add THREE unnecessary/random/expensive home additions (like how people will have bowling alleys, movie theatres, closets with museums of shoes, car display rooms, spa rooms, wine cellars, etc. in their mansions) - what three would you choose?

[thestudentfarmer]

Garden update today :)

We had some more gloomy wet weather so unfortunatly some chores and errands fell through and I'm a little behind on some maintenance as well as seed uppotting

Sadly I don't think any of my peppers are going to grow. A few of the tomatoes have sprouted so there is at least that. Unfortunatly i dont think they will be ready for transplanting by valentines day. They'll be a little behind anyways.

Here's the cabbages now~

I'm very excited to see these growing so well this season :D they are transplanted and these 4 are the survivers so far.

The carrots (don't mind the weeds, I'll be yanking them as soon as I catch up, as long as I get them before seed they make excellent salads for the chickens)

The nasturtium, there's some flowers tucked up inside them, a few yellows this season, not to many red or orange so far.

The broccoli and a close up of one that seems to be growing multiple little florets now :D

The lentils I put in the L bed are starting to sprout now too :) I think this upcoming season I may plant cucumbers or melons of some sort.

And a bit excited, a lil garlic peice is starting to peek through!!

Oh! I also saw 2 of the wild love parrots this morning in one of the neighbors' trees!!! I have no choice but to always have sunflowers growing and will need to accommodate some grow space for them now 😂 their pretty rarely sighted in the area im at so I am super stoked to see them.

hopefully, they are able to find enough food to hang out for more than flying through, and that people get to see why having green spaces in cities is important to more than just human benefit.

That's it for now :)

����🌻Happy homesteading and gardening 🌻🌱

1 26 2024

[iloveschiaparelli]

The Basil is dead :(

The wandflower is likely dead too :(

Killed by the heatwave combined with me forgetting to water for 4 days due to a combination of health issues and emotional breakdown.

I was mentally prepared for the Basil but the wandflower is a huge loss, that baby is a perennial and i love(d) her.

[myedcsblog]

[scarysanctuary]

not to be old, but omg im so excited, we got a free potted lime tree from someone that was just going to throw it away, i can tell it was not being cared for and probably has never fruited before, fixed it up with a bigger pot and some food and water etc, i hope he thrives in his new home

[wolverinedoctorwho]

Some food I've made lately

[byanyan]

honestly byan probably has lived in someone's attic like a fucking raccoon ngl

[marmarparadoxa]

It's been a month since this peacock appeared in the garden behind our university. I don't know where he came from, and I surmised he must have escaped from some house with a courtyard in the vicinity. This garden is also connected to a wood north of the city, but nobody ever heard about wild peacocks in this area. So, me and my colleagues started leaving seeds on a plate and a cup of water outside. The peacock stayed, and my friend gave him the name "Vinicio". Now it's been a month, it has snowed a couple of times, and temperatures are dropping during the night, but Vinicio seems to be doing fine.

As soon as he spots us, he usually starts turning away, but the other day he finally approached us and looked at us with his dinosaur eyes.

[survivalpreps]

[master-jarrus]

So if you know me in rl or we have been mutuals for a year plus

Then you know I actually lean hard into traditional skills and will randomly hyper fixate and want to just disappear into the woods on a backpacking trip and just make a whole homestead

Well I just got some massive validation and go ahead to actually make plans to do it

So just a heads up you may get rants on sustainability and green houses and why we need basic survival skills instead of relying so much of electronics and internet (in a non ableist way)

[yearzerosurvival]

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[thestudentfarmer]

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The cucumbers are starting to come in, ive picked 8 that are about 11-13 inch long with more to come :)

The front side pics only today, since the back is weirdly sparse at the moment.

Guranteed there will be a few hidden ones ive missed too. This is 3 or 4 plants, a couple died before taking off almost overnight so I'm not entirely sure.

These are a striped variety of armenian cucumbers, I like them because~~~~~

🌱once they get going they are very prolific producers on few plants.

🌱Fruit can be 12+ inches long and I've found some as thick as a watermelon once (was not tasty. The chickens loved it tho!) Bigger than 1.5 inch wide tends to start getting seedy.

🌱They can get some whacky shapes.

🌱If established and given a watering 2x a day for about 10-15 (early morning, sunset/dusk) before heat hits heavy, they will generally continue producing long after most other plants have finished. For my area that's about 3 days of sustained 105+*f. These cukes kept producing right through the summer with little stuttering.

🌱Did I mention they produce a lot? I'm not kidding, we grew I think 6 plants the very first grow (other varieties have done very poorly) and got over 200lbs of cucumbers. It felt very much like the zuchinni grow season joke. We had enough for us, The chickens and regular gifts to at least 5 other households with plenty extra to gift to coworkers and classmates. 😂

🌱They are pretty set em and forget them, trellising them this year is something new im trying so I can work out ways to produce more food on a urban sized lot.

🌱personal notes, no cucumber urps :D so if ya suffer from them, this could be a variety to try.

I've tried a few other varieties (pickling, lemon, straight 8s, english) and not been as successfully as these have been. At this time their gonna be the ones we grow from now on. I'll try others, but like said just haven't had luck with them.

They either grow too slow, weak and sickly or the 2 times we got fruit they were waaaay to bitter.

These seeds came from a packet at one of local libraries seed library. I'll be trying to figure out how to save the seed this year to return some back (which is all they ask folks to do, is return seed if possible) if it's viable.

I'll be for sure bringing some nasturtium and hollyhock seeds in the next time I'm up since both produced well this time :)

I don't wanna endorse any one seed page specifically at this time for addutional grow info, Since I like to get seeds from local or regional growers (small business's or gardeners and hobbiest most preffered), thankfully there's at least a Wikipedia page with some interesting info and an edu page too :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cucumber

https://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/research/cucumber-in-the-garden

That's it for today :)

🌱🌱Happy Homesteading and Gardening 🌱🌱

6.15.2024