As The Perfect Storm Hits America's Food Supply All At Once, 'Miracle Foods' & Hydroponics Will Be The Keys To Long-Term Survival
- Control The Food, Control The People
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
With this Spring's flooding in the Midwest decimating many crops, with millions of calves lost during the flooding, along with the recent barrage of tornadoes leaving a path of destruction from Kansas to Pennsylvania, along with the recent news of Asian "pig ebola" sending "shock waves through the global food chain," we have seen and written a number of prepping pieces encouraging Americans to prepare, many focused on emergency survival food, but eventually even that would run out as the long term effects of food shortages started affecting production.
While a significant supply of emergency food may last a few months, a year or maybe, for those that have been prepping longer, more, long-term survival will depend on the ability to grow your own food indoors year-round.
ANP reached out to Steve Quayle, who has been a proponent of prepping since before prepping became a "thing," to ask what the most ignored or under-addressed aspect of prepping was in his researched opinion, and received back some of the best prepping tips we have ever heard.
Below we will delve into the most important factors of survival that we believe are not addressed enough.
(If you appreciate stories like this, please consider donating to ANP to help keep us in this battle for the future of America.)
HYDROPONICS AND SPROUTING WILL BE THE ONLY WAY PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE
We'll start with sprouts, often described as a "miracle food" as they are healthy and nutrious, offer vitamin, mineral, amino acid and protein boosts, are affordable, requires no soil (perfect for apartment preppers with a limited amount of space), and offer a large variety, sprout seeds, beans, legumes or grains, and more.
The information on sprouting is out there if one knows what to look for and the easy process "involves germinating seeds and legumes, and then eating them raw," so they don't even have to be cooked, and most can be added to soups, stews, salads, among a number of other foods.
In researching sprouts we found that they can be grown in simple mason jars, or sprouting trays that barely take up any room and some sprouts can be ready to eat within a week. (Note - Some can take 10-20 days to harvest)
Hydroponics is a method of growing nutritious sprouts and other greens and vegetables that doesn't require soil. While researching this method, we were amazed to see how many different herbs, vegetables and greens can be grown using a hydroponics system. Lettuces, tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach and much more can offer decent yields, with no messy soil or the need for a full outside garden, and they can be grown all year round.
While the systems themselves range from larger hydroponic growing systems, to smaller ones for those that take up much less space, we found the majority of them to be relatively inexpensive.
The great part of being able to grow sprouts, vegetables, fruits and greens indoors using hydroponics is that one is not limited by season or weather and can be harvested more rapidly than traditional gardening. The best part is using non-GMO seeds and growing your own food, you always know exactly what is in the food you are eating and how fresh it is.
With the massive amounts of food recalls in recent years due to listeria, salmonella and ecoli, growing your own food is also safer.
VITAMINS, VARIOUS SUPPLEMENTS AND PROTEIN POWDERS SHOULD BE ACCUMULATED
Vitamins and supplements are also an important part of long term survival with vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin A being important to general health and skin health. Vitamin B helps with energy and stress. Vitamin D and calcium for bone health and more. Omega-3fatty acids/fish oil supplements helps with inflammation. Antioxidants for eye health. Probiotics help with the digestive system.
As always, if you are on prescription medications or taking any other type of vitamin cocktail daily, please check with your doctor about drug interactions. There are even some online websites that you can plug in what you take with any of the aforementioned vitamins and supplements to make sure nothing will interact negatively with what you are already taking.
Protein Powders: One of the best tips Steve offered in our email communications (although I found them all important) was the need to accumulate protein powders, which in hindsight should have been common sense, but it is something we rarely see addressed when talking about prepping and survival.
We have often linked to freeze dried meat packages, and with the long shelf life, they are still an awesome investment for survival, but when talking about long-term survival, when the possibility of no longer being able to refresh your supply due to food shortages, having a large accumulation of protein powders to simply mix up and drink, is not only imperative but is also an answer for those without a lot of storage space for those large emergency survival food buckets.
From organic, plant based, to flavored powders, to gluten free whey powders, to any other number of powders available, one can accumulate enough to last years, or even a decade using a limited amount of space for storage.
Note- I will be honest, in all our prepping supplies, which is stored in our mud room, a stock of protein powders wasn't even something we addressed or accumulated, but it will be now, and a huge thank you to Quayle for showing us once again that we can all learn something new or even be reminded of something we forgot, no matter how long we have been prepping.
BOTTOM LINE - CONTROL THE FOOD, CONTROL THE PEOPLE
We are reminded of something Quayle first said last year, soon "the word normal will no longer exist," nor will we ever go back to the good old days that once were, as he reminded me just today, everything seems to be happening at once. With even the mainstream media talking about global food crisis, and the depopulation crowd still wanting 90 percent of the human population dead, the food shortages and upcoming increase in food prices force us to remember the old expression, "control the food, control the people."
Those prepared enough to survive on the food they grow year round, along with supplemental vitamins and protein sources, will not be the ones able to be controlled.
https://youtu.be/EmypfzheT90
https://youtu.be/OOJ16HsVVEU
ONGOING FUNDRAISER:Despite generous donations, the still dwindling advertising revenue over the course of the last two years has forced us to completely deplete all our savings just to survive and continue to keep All News PipeLine online.
So ANP is accepting reader donations. PLEASE HELP KEEP ANP ALIVE BY DONATING USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING METHODS.
One time donations or monthly, via Paypal or Credit Card:
Last edited by spring2 on Thu May 30, 2019 10:25 am; edited 1 time in total
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: PLANT NOW!!!!!! Wed May 29, 2019 7:30 pm
i love this idea and was thinking that it might be good to make an underground greenhouse with glass block windows on top. You know, the kind you can replace basement windows with? It would be good winter through summer (i think) but you'd have to have good ventilation and a little heat source for winter.
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: PLANT NOW!!!!!! Thu May 30, 2019 10:51 am
The house I currently live in I had some remodeling done, and when I did I had the contractor pour cement slab and do some earthquake mods. I have lighting and this space while not huge does house my Argo, Honda ATV, Two trailers and some storage boxes on the floor.
I am considering doing what I suggested.
I think one should be conscious of the humidity and vents etc.
But the area lends very well to indoor garden for smaller plants like carrots, beets and green beans and stuff that doesn't grow really tall. The ceiling is maybe 6.6. Another thought is Garden Boxes on Wheels so they can be close when not working in them so as to utilize storage area better. I also had a patio poured off of that under house area and it is located under the deck which has corrugated plastic to keep Dry.. goes into gutter under deck.
Could wheel the boxes outdoors and get Western Sun @ mid day through Sun down. AND Keep Dirty Rain OFF! Could still use Solar by hanging the Panels off the deck collect SW - Western Sun light, using the charge controller to time some lighting off the battery during cloudy days.
Those shelving hydroponic ones would be great for little - no space, could be on wheels to move in front of a sunny Sliding Door? or maybe on a Deck and build small shield / cover around?
Idea here is to keep Dirty Rain Off as it may have a lot of Aluminum or other particles. Hose Filters inline types are available most places including Amazon.
Wish I had built a Green House in the beginning.. but didn't see that much devastating Spray Weather back then. Oh well. Anyways, some ideas. Just a matter of thinking about your environment.
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: PLANT NOW!!!!!! Thu May 30, 2019 10:53 am
Weather this week?
Wed's High Temperature: 105 at Rio Grande Village Tx
that is where they grow some crops 4 times a year.. next biggest or equal to Calif. So that is going to be dry, not sure of normal temps there or water problems but might want to watch for more crop failures as they intend to control us!!!