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Survival Skill: Farming
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Survival Skill: Farming
When it comes to surviving long-term, there is no better option than growing your very own food supply.
This is because you have the capacity, given the proper knowledge, location, and conditions, to provide enough food for yourself, your family, and even other friends or for sale, with as little as an acre of land or less.
The main aspect of what you need, is not always exactly what you might believe at first.
For example, a potato is a self-propagating food source. This means that if you cut the eyes off of a potato, you can plant it, and it will grow into a new potato many foods can quite easily be repeatedly grown in this manner, such as onions, celery, sweet potato, ginger, basil, and other herbs.
Some vegetables, like turnips, rutabagas, carrots, and beets also fall into this category and are quite easy to grow for the beginner.
With modern gardening and growing techniques, such as hydroponics and vertical growing towers, it is quite possible to grow an abundant food supply.
Combining these techniques with additional processes such as having your own compost piles, portable chicken coups, or building your own greenhouses, can increase the amount of food you can produce by a factor of 10.
Traditional farms take advantage of large spaces, Smaller vertical farms take advantage of available height.
Collecting Seeds, Sprouts, Seedlings, and Saplings
When planting and growing your foods you are going to need to also have the ability to keep a decent number of early growth plants to have access to decent quality and quantity of food.
This means you have to learn a lot of gardening and food growth terminology, such as the differences between seeds and sprouts, seedlings and saplings.
Sprouts are germinated seeds. What this means is that the “germ” of the seed awakes from its slumber, and becomes a real, live plant.
Saplings are young trees with a diameter of 1 to 5 inches at a point that is 4½ feet from the ground. Saplings may be balled and burlapped, bare-root, or containerized. Seedlings are young trees with a diameter of up to 1 inch at a point that is 4½ feet from the ground. Seedlings are usually bare-root.
Make sure that you also study what nutrients the food you are planning to grow will require, such as manure, soil types, fertilizers, or specific plant foods.
There will also be a variety of growing conditions that you will need to learn such as growing seasons, whether the crops require more sunlight or more shady conditions, what kind of wet or dry conditions the plants or trees can tolerate, and much more.
When it comes to growing your food supply, the more knowledge that you have of the overall process the greater your chances of getting the process done properly, which means a greater amount of food for you and your family to eat.