One.  The first survival food storage secret is to learn to garden and use whatever space you have available.  From a back yard area, raised beds, container gardens on a deck or small herb pots in the kitchen window, folk can grow more than they think with a little creativity and effort.  Use edible landscaping for plants that are ornamental as well as that provide food.Need a few shade trees?  Why not use fruit or nut trees - they will supply shade as well as food.  

Two.  Learn to ‘put up’ food - canning, food dehydrating and other methods are increasingly easy with modern gadgets designed to preserve food.  It needs a minimal effort - but on a kitchen counter you can dry enough herbs for a year ; you can make real powdered and flaked pepper, garlic and onion.  

Three.  Next survival food storage  secret is if you freeze food, be sure you have a means to keep it going in a crisis.  If the electricity goes off you do not need to lose a year’s supply of food!  Have a generator and fuel, get a propane refrigerator, have some means of keeping that food cold.Putting food aside is only one part of increasing your food supply - storing it safely is the other issue.  

Four.Always be discreet.  Don’t gloat about your food supply and don’t spread the word you have six months of food in your basement.  If you do, and there is a crisis, you may be overrun with people who know you have plenty stocked away.  Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?  

Five.  Storage a problem?  Use areas most do not think of.  The pantry is good for many things but if you are putting up many jars of spaghetti sauce, preserves, soups and other sauces you are going to need room.  Have a protected corner of the basement up off the ground ( enough that a wet floor won’t damage the food ).  

Six.Here is one more survival food storage secret.  Along with your food supply have a means to prepare food including water, griddle and gas/wood/charcoal, and so on.  If a storm| typhoon knocks an area down for 2-3 weeks be able to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks.  Have available not only necessity items but some luxury items as well .  These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a bit more like home.  

Seven.  Remember storing personal cleanliness items - you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or slices, toilet roll and other survival gear can significantly increase the comfort in an emergency.  

Eight.  Do not depend on the government helping - or on folks being friendly.  A disastrous situation like New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the governing body can’t handle it - folk have got to be able to depend on themselves.  Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being restricted to home ).  Remember a train derailment or other issues can change things in a hurry!  Practice that evacuation.  You have 10 minutes- what do you grab?  Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can mean survival.  

Nine.  Be in a position to cook from the start, make bread and do other abilities to get thru if you had to.  If you have the food stocked up it doesn’t do any good if you can not use it.  If you depend on mixes make your own mixes in Ziploc bags that seal tightly - label with a marker right on the bag with how much liquid, egg and oil to add.  In a pinch, that bag can be the bowl - simply put wet ingredients in and mix, then decant into a baking pan.  Experiment with your grill to make things before you have to.  

Ten.  Having the ability to hunt and fish can suggest having an ongoing food supply.  Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can suggest the difference between eating or not.  In the depression some spoke of having a small dog that would go through culverts and flush out rabbits while the enormous dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out.  Sporting?  Maybe notbut if it comes to eating or not, how ethical will you be after not eating for four days?  

Get prepared now.  Work on getting things growing, on learning the abilities you have got to in order to survive.  When the general public food supply is interrupted it’ll be too late.

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