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http://www.moffa.net/oi-2018.html Diverse Grain Options for Farms and Homesteads Organic Transplant Production: Secure a Stellar Season with Successful Starts Small to Medium Scale Livestock for the Integrated Farm East Lansing, MI January 6th

We are trying to grow enough feed with enough diversity to winter our livestock next winter. The idea here is to be able to sustain our meat production through the winter from our growing production in the previous months without purchasing animal feed. I have the following livestock to feed...

How does the corn look in your neck of the woods? here some pix from Merryland

Once a month, from Friday supper through Monday breakfast I practice cooking and existing on preps. alone. The basic premise is that the refrigerator and freezer do not exist (except for ice for drinks.) I make a point to not cook just from canned foods but to work a variety of my stored foods...

SHTF and your non-prepared people come a knocking because they are scared and hungry. fortunately you have saved some grain and seed for that event and a grinder/mill they can share. WHAT WOULD YOUR CHOICES BE AND WHY? my thoughts were corn, beans, rice, wheat, oats any thoughts? :) h2o not so...

I want to store cheap, easy to get food, that will last for years. Can't afford to buy tons of canned foods or other items that expire rather quickly. Rice- Read how to store. But wondering any particular style rice or is it all the same? Beans- Read up how to store but wondering what style...

When survivalist start stockpiling food, we buy #10 cans and usually store food in mylar bags. Lets say we had to focus on certain foods, what would those foods be? How do we decide which foods we should focus on? Lets narrow our selections to how easy the food is to grow, how well it...

I'd like to be able to store a couple hundred pounds of grains, rice, beans, flour, etcetera. I'd also like to be able to use it regularly and keep it rotated. I have the idea of having small silos, maybe about the size of a 55 gallon barrel. That way, I can pour fresh stuff in the top, and...

After a lot of good reading I have decided to start storing food - beans and grains/rices I have buckets - a lot - to be used to house split up portions of food in mylar bags The question is this - what is a good size mylar bag to use and how many/what size Oxygen Absorbers to toss in I...

Has anyone ever ordered from Pleasant Hill Grain? Their prices seem a bit high but from what I'm reading, the grains comes in a 6 gallon bucket already sealed in Mylar with o2 packs. Seems like for the extra price, the work is all done for you...

I've had a love/hate relationship with wheat. I stopped eating “the whites” a few years ago and stayed away from consuming a lot wheat for quite a while, though still ground my own flour and baked several times a week, giving the loaves to friends or dropped them off at the Fire Dept. down the...

I found a place that is selling 5 gallon food grade buckets with lids for 2.00 each. My question is how many do you think I should get? Grains, legumes, dry milk, rice, beans. Three people. Or better yet does anyone know how many pounds there are in a 5 gallon bucket? For example I need 400 lbs...

Hey all, So I now have 3 rifles, and I've had experience with them. I know how to clean them, fire them, and proper gun safety. I have a basic knowledge of firearms. Now for bullets: I know how a cartridge works in general. Pin strikes primer, primer ignites powder, powder gas pushes bullet...

What wheat alternative is the best for taste and testure in baked goods ? What wheat alternative is best for growing in smaller gardens ? What wheat alternatives are hardy and easy to grow? I may have a person with wheat allergies marrying into my family?

Greetings, I my never ending preparation to the economic holocaust coming, I have 2 questions: 1 - What hand grain mill would you suggest me to buy that is not too hard on the budget? 2 - Anyone ever made a 12 volts grain mill? It would be nice to simply connect it to a battery 12 volts that...

I have read a lot of questions concerning the storage of food preps. I understand the need to store canned goods and freeze dried food in metal cans and under cool dry conditions. I built a storage pantry in a back bedroom and storing them under normal house climate conditions is absolutely...

Anybody? How do you protect flour and grains from the insect pests?

What kind of grain could be grown without too much work in Indiana climate? Dont say corn...I already know that...Im guessing barley or rye...maybe oats?

I currently have 300 lbs of steamed rolled oats stored in 55gal drums and I'm looking to add heavily to that. What would be other "feed store grains" that would be good for storage/easy use? I'm really interested in large bag options, I just don't want to ask the feed store and raise any eye...