Would love any suggestions/advice about my logistical planning problem: - I've never really stored up any home-canned goods, but plan on doing so & keeping in closet under finished basement stairs (coolest, darkest, least disturbed place in house that doesn't experience temp changes like garage...

The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones.This from today 21/2/2011 for Qld. The weather is acting strange world wide in comparison to what we normally get. This could simply be a once every 100 years thing, but somehow I...

Although the Northeast got the deep snow and national headlines; the Southwest got record breaking (but non national headline producing) low temperatures. Last I heard locally we'd set new record lows three days in a row. All along the Texas/Mexico border from El Paso/Juárez to Eagle...

Greetings! I have been curious for a while about these survival seed packages and seed collections that companies and organizations have been selling. In the spirit of self-sufficency, I asked myself "WHY COULDN'T I MAKE MY OWN?" After a little bit of research and knowing what seeds might...

How is everyone planning on save food when/if the SHTF? I mean if you are on your own you have to have some plan for home preservation. Freezers require power (generators will run out of gas at some point) and they need repair. Canning needs lids and at $.20 a lid now you need to stock up...

I'm pretty new to the forum so if I'm asking an old question forgive me. I see a lot of people buying MREs, Gardening, and stockpiling groceries, but I don't see much discussion about home storage. So, how are you storing the food you grow? Each way I know of has it's own pluses and minuses...