Prepping and living in an apartment is definitely not easy, but it can be done. My family and I live in a two bedroom apartment and we do all we can to make sure that we have extra food, water, and necessities stored for emergencies and for any kind of SHTF situation that may arise. We even do drills and test each other on possible defensive positions and escape paths from the apartment if we cannot bug in. Please, everyone, prepare, prepare, prepare. Even if its just small things, it will help if a situation arises and make sure you include your children and even pets in your escape and preparedness plans.
@@imbolc8024 Best thing I can say is to just keep preparing yourself and keep showing them how helpful it really is. If possible, prepare extra to cover them to show them you're thinking of their well being. I have plenty of friends that look at what I do and think I'm crazy or overreacting. But when SHTF happens, I'll be ready as will my family.
Totally! You can grow a lot of food in just a 4ft by 4ft space. There is also growing on top of roofs if you're lucky enough to have a flat roof & have access to it.
Yes, foraging is very important to learn and everyone's ability will differ pending on their locations. It's good to forage while your crops grow so they have the proper time to grow.
Learning how to grow & forage your own food, isn't a prepper thing, it's what our ancestors learned how to do to survive. They didn't do it for a "what if" thing. We just need to get back in touch with our ancestral roots & wake up.
Good observations Bjorn, people need to be careful and be flexible. We little old ladies here in the American south are well known to have vegetable gardens, chickens, other small animals, we can food, smoke food, altogether we are just southern grandmas who everyone just takes for granted that's what we do, grow food and feed everybody. We may get away with it for longer than some in many other places, but there will be a time that will try our souls, we realize our time is short now. By the grace of God, we aren't old because we're foolish😉, but because we trust in him.
I was rubbish at growing food when I first went off grid, but little by little I'm getting better.. its a real sense of achievement to see something you planted grow, then harvest and finally eat.. with the added bonus of not giving one penny to a global corporation..
@@ladywinter2536 Crikey....the damn blight....... reminds me of when I was flying my Spitfire Over Dover and I look down and I see people's tomatoes with the blight
Sadly there are VERY FEW people today who are capable of surviving without a grocery store or supplied energy.. Those who can will be faced with warding off scavengers who are incapable of surviving without stealing from those who are! Many will have to choose who they will allow into their immediate circle.... Perilous days ahead,,,
Truth. Look at what happened during the winter blizzard in Texas. So many people were completely unprepared. We aren't used to that kind of weather, but they warned everyone that it was coming. 😔
It’s nearly impossible to grow all the food a family will consume in a year. You need lots of land, time, helping hands, equipment and storage space. Staples such as rice, wheat, salt and sugar, has to be purchased in most cases. Our ancestors purchased food too and bartered for it.
@@thosewhobelieve122 I agree.. there are many things which must be purchased and stored as much as possible,, It would be nearly impossible to live completely off the land, especially as an individual or individual family... for a sustained period of time this will require "communal" living and effort...
Much like what hubby and I are working on now, simplifying down to a store of meat, potatoes, fats, salt, and foraged greens, nuts, berries, and other fruit. By foraged, I mean we actually use our somewhat wooded lot to grow many wild edibles so no one realizes how much food we really have available year-round. We figured the simpler it is, the better.
@@lsmith992 I've been enjoying Edible Acres and some other video channels, but never really knew what it mean. I would very much like to see our yard gone wild (it's over wooded and whatever lawns and gardens there were years ago are now mostly beneficial food and medicine weeds that took over by themselves) developed more that way. Yay!
I think the most important, and most overlooked survival skill that anyone can learn but so very few do is relationship. If you build truly meaningful relationships with individuals in your community (within walkable geographic location), you gain an invaluable resource that will prove supremely beneficial in a multitude of circumstances. As an introvert, that is hard for me to say and even harder for me to act upon. But I believe it to be true regardless.
Very true, when this current shenanigans started I started bringing eggs to the neighbors across the street because there were none on the shelves at the grocery. They wanted to pay for them so I take a little money and put it in for the chicken food. Just last week they gave me about 10 lbs of peaches and apples. But more importantly we have built a bit of relationship, which is even better.
Yes, every one should have a small garden every year because it can takes years to gain gardening skills. Most people, even if they live in a small apartment they can set up a container garden on their balcony or even a few fruit or vegetables plants in doors near a window to get sunlight and can buy a grow lamp to give additional light & be able to grow a few things year round. Growing your own food is a good start, but people also need to learn how to preserve what they grow (canning, dehydrating, freeze drying) so that they can start building up their pantry. If preserved properly, most fruits and vegetables can be stored for quite a long time. You can never grow too much food, what you do not use fresh you can preserve until you have a good 2 or 3 years of food stored and donate some of the fresh fruits & vegetables to friends, family & local food banks. The more people who are growing at least some of their own food with out chemical pesticides & fertilizers will improve health & will reduce the need for so much commercial farming & transporting the food thousands of miles.
I have to chuckle at the thought of "average" people growing and preserving their own food. Ever increasing numbers can't even be bothered to go to the supermarket or cook their own meals. They have their grocery orders delivered or rely on doordash etc for fast food crap. Especially the younger generations. I have nieces and nephews in their 20s whose idea of paradise is never having to leave their apartments for anything. They're going to be helpless if there's a prolonged power, internet outage.
cans and pantry food are a finite resource if we don't know how to replenish it by growing food. Grew some peas, carrots and strawberries at the start of this year, now I'm growing radishes and kale in the same spot. Also have multiple potato plants. It's not enough to live off of, but I gotta start somewhere :)
Do you know about the nitrogen fixing bacteria on the roots of peas and beans? If you dig up a plant, you can see little white nodules all over the root system - that is free nitrate for another crop, preferably one that will benefit from nitrate - such as a leafy crop or potatoes. Just dig them in where you need them next. Peas and beans are a good back up source of protein as well, should access to meat be difficult. I can veg, fruit and dry produce - I live in an old terraced house, but I am the point where I could get by for months if I had to. It is well worth persevering, try to get next year's seeds by Sept. Good luck.
If you can't grow food the best thing to do if you are in a small apartment is to store tins. They keep well past the use by date, years even depending on what the food is.
15 years ago I planted a "hidden in plain sight" forest garden. The average person wouldn't recognise the vegetables types. Lots of andean tuber crops, perennial onions, skirret, achira, perennial greens. I dotted in a lot of highly poisonous plants with them too, to make it interesting for the marauders.😂
Growing and raising your own food is important and I would recommend trying to do so now while there is still some safety net. Growing enough food to survive on is more difficult than most imagine, so getting idea of what is realistic for yourself in your area with your skills and resources is extremely important.
Read as much as you can about farming -- what kind of soil is the best for different crops, what are the seasons for common crops, how to treat diseases, crop rotation, raised bed, cold frames. Buy farming books and learn these techniques first.
@@Nightdiver20 Thats wonderful and I don’t want to discourage anyone, but have you tried surviving on only what you grow? You might be able to grow 100lbs of tomatoes and carrots but how quickly would your physical and mental health decline if that’s all you are eating?
@@thomaskreke4635 Of course not, it's all supplemental to what I already have stored at this point but it's certainly been encouraging. And there's been a learning curve, the squash and cabbage got eaten up pretty badly. But everything else has gone pretty well. You have to try to keep potatoes from growing and that's where you get the most ROI in my opinion.
Some of us have medically fragile children, our child is wheelchair/homebound. There is no bugging out or living off the land option. we try to live self-sustaining as much as possible but have to be within an hour of a major hospital for our child. We do what we can and leave the rest to God from whom all blessings come. The duty is ours the outcome is God's.
@@stephanieaskew771 I can not get extra meds for him, nor mine, I have RA, I can live without mine (Ill just be in a lot of pain and unable to move well) but he can not live without his. One of his is a med pump in his tummy that must be refilled every three months ... it is life-threatening if he doesn't. He is only one example of the disabled community. when talking about these things it's very sobering and it has very disturbing outcomes for most of us in this community.
@@GenuinlyTransformed Yes. A lot of people will die in an SHTF event for that very reason--lack of medicine/treatments. People like your child(ren) will be in a bad situation. As far as affecting the general population, I worry about people like drug addicts and people who take psych meds not getting their meds or "fix."
@@GenuinlyTransformed It can help a bit to learn about herbal medicine. There are powerful plants growing all around us. Also using nutrition to boost health, and stocking up on supplements, which won't necessarily heal all ailments but can make a big difference. For nutritional advice I like to watch Dr Eric Berg, and for learning about herbal medicines, 'She is of the Woods.' If you can get in touch with other preppers, especially those with medical training, it will help to give you peace of mind.
@@GenuinlyTransformed yes,i totally understand & relate with u & your concerns, same here (very ill), and depending on docs... bless you & your family 🙏
Hi Bjorn , being self sufficient is good , If you have the land to be able to do so , it would help if you could band together with like minded people to create a tribe for protection also . Be Well my Friend , Strength and Honour !.
Greetings from Chile Bjorn. I'd like to introduce Chile's background considering what you expose in this video. Chile's been since the last dictatorship an experiment of neoliberalism. Rich people here have wanted to have the same richness situation in comparison to a rich person from a first world country, and they have showed our country as abundant, but the difference is that Chile's incomes are from comoditites and food. And I think that's the worst scenenario because people here have believed that we are some kind of first-world country in Latin America, and that's a lie. And the consequence we are living now is the water shortage and most of people are not get used to have an independent and self-sustainable life, and even it's worst due to our negation and underrate of our roots (native people). I think that to be self-sustainable and independent, first we have to encounter again with our roots from our native people. They knew how to be self-sustainable and the only way to survive from a shift scenerario is to get the wisdom from them. This is not capitalism versus comunism, this is a situation where all of us have been slept and comfortable in a scenerario where we tought it was going to last forever, but the reality is that scenenario has the days count.
It's amazing just how much food can be grown in tubs, planters and window boxes! Remember folks, the humble stinging nettle is your best friend when it comes to nutritional value! Also well you still have the chance, make a map and mark down all the wild edibles and natural resources you can in your local environment!
There's plenty of hard times coming and hard decisions to take, but I found growing your own food to be as much about learning from the failures as to the successes!
I have been blessed by my previous experiences. I had my own garden for years and did a lot of food preservation. I am also proficient at foraging native wild foods. And I worked on a cattle ranch for years. I learned how to hunt, fish and camp at an early age. I am currently working on maximizing my food storage. And I have now built up my natural immunity to this current dis-ease. I am staying positive, alert and focused to take on whatever challenges might be coming up in the future 😊
Improving my preservation skills was my goal this past year - I have learned all that I have from Homesteaders based in the US. I have numerous books, but the equipment that is common place in the US is virtually unheard of here in the UK. I was fortunate to get everything before the shortages hit in full. I am so grateful to all the people who take the trouble to show the rest of us how to do all of these various things and teach us the necessary skills.
One would hope that if you know your neighbors, everyone will work together and contribute! If your not familiar with chickens, and have the land, they are really easy and you can feed them your left overs!! Biggest thing is to protect them at night! I wish I knew you! You would be a friend. You seem to have a gentle soul! From Mesa, Arizona!!
Here in Ireland Bjorn,many people are going back to grow their own vegetables,like ,cabbage,Brussel sprouts,onions, carrots etc next week I start prepping the back garden,looking forward to it.
Good advice, planted a huge garden (for us and to sell) this year as well as filling the pantry... we've abandoned our knowledge as our lives have became more and more comfortable. It's time for things to start progressing back the other direction.
@@incelproud2670 Nope. ~400g of grains/potatoes/rice/corn or beans is equal to 8kg tomato, celerey, letuce, cucumber, etc. I calculated what it requires to stay alive for a year (@2000cal/day): 465 lbs pinto beans 442 lbs rice 480 lbs wheat 418 lbs corn
So glad my parents taught me these skills when I was a kid! Thanks Bjorn for your thought-provoking and insightful videos! Keep up the good work! Really enjoy your channel here in Colorado, USA 🇺🇸 👍
I only have a small garden at the moment but it is pretty successful. I have a two year old tomato plant even though my winters get to -40 degrees Fahrenheit. I moved some plants inside during the winter and most of them survived.
@@jamesdeegan7365 they are supposed to be seasonal. I am not an experienced farmer so I don't know what I did right but my biggest plant is going on 2 years and still bearing fruit. I kept it in my back room all winter (which stayed at about 60 degrees F) and it stayed alive. It stopped producing during the cold months but started back up when I transitioned it back outside. Most of my pepper plants died inside though. They like it hot and 60 wasn't enough to sustain them. They got funguses and parasites all winter because.of the cold that seeped into the back door.
@@jamesdeegan7365 No, not neccessarily. In countries, where the winters don't get cold the plants may become 2-3 years old, but they need a certain amount of warmth and light during the winter to make it.
I had the first garden in three years! I had to down size because of my age! Planted corn, tomatoes, rattlesnake beans, and peas! Beans and peas did great, put much in the freezer!
Why is something that was so common up through the 70's and even up to the 80's now considered prepping and so dangerous? It makes no damn sense. Our parents, grandparents and great grandparents for the most part had gardens and before that most were full on farmers. What is it now that makes growing food and collecting rain water so dangerous to governments?
The governments are controlled by Freemasons. Goal of this organisation is to implement communism on a global scale. Nobody owns anything in communism, and especially land!
I am a Michigan resident, I enjoy watching your videos because you speak your mind, something many people nowadays are afraid to do. So keep it up and my friend, stay independent and keep making videos 💯 you have real knowledge and morals that should never be forgotten.
With our high metal fence and dogs parking (in our bugout location where we also grow our food)? I do not think so. Most people here do not have fences around their farms or cabins - and if they do, then mostly low wooden fences, that is easy to cross. But I would be very worried in a SHTF situation without the fence - I think it is a must have investment
It's crazy too, I started learning all the natural edibles and medicines in my area. In the past couple years it has put the woods I've lived in for 30 years in a whole new perspective. Poisonous plants as well and are just as important.
I've been growing food for a long time. It seems simple, but actually has a fairly robust learning curve if you want to be reliably successful in it. Your environment and what you plan to grow in it matter and will impact the techniques needed to be efficient and productive. That said, growing food for yourself is definitely a possibility for being targeted when things head south. If you work to be discrete in your agricultural pursuits (if you can be) it is possible to go 'unnoticed' by others. Large farms are big, obvious targets. Think small and disbursed gardens whenever possible.
@scout discover what the problem is and try again! Finding experienced people who can advise you is a treasure! There are plenty of good gardening books out there, and also videos on the interwebs! The important thing is to develop competency now, while things are still relatively calm, instead of trying to figure it out when your life depends on your ability to produce your own food!
I look at it from this point of view: Those who have little awareness of gardening - the type of people who would normally tell you that there is no point to gardening, because everything is so readily available in the supermarket - will not be paying attention in time. By the time most people work out there is a problem, this season's stuff (next year's food) will be safely stored away. By next year, if things are as bad as is being said, they won't be in a position to go searching and robbing. We have never been in times like this, we are yet to see the potential fallout from the V. with a food crisis and potential energy disruption on top. In my country, hardly anyone is prepared on a day to day basis. Everybody thinks they can hunt or fish if they need to - that will be a lot of clueless people chasing a few manky animals, not a great result.
@scout every year as you add compost and nutrients to your garden it will get better. It is very hard to be successful in the first year without huge investments. Keep it simple. Keep some animals so you can use their manure. Goat and sheep manure is cool and can be added directly to the garden.
I own about 19 acres of forested land. Within those woods I have created random gardens that are not visible from outside the forest. Do not store all your survival food in one single cache.
Woodpile report used to advocate having caches of food. He also had small gardens hidden in the woods. Most people don't recognize food plants because they've never gardened.
Thank you, sir. You are speaking to everyone here, not just to those who have land and a house. I once watched a video of a lady who lived in an apartment. I was amazed at all the places she found to store food and water. She bought a few of those shelf units that hang on the back of doors, some were plastic, other were made of cloth, and she stuffed all kinds of food in them, under furniture, under the sink in the kitchen and bathroom, trunk of her car, in closets, in the back seat of her car on the floor- covered so it just looked like a coat was just thrown there, SUITCASES (why leave them empty just taking up space?)... Just think of all the junk you have that you really don't need taking up space in these areas that you could be storing supplies in! I watch a lot of these preppers and they don't seem to offer any help/hope to those who live in apartments, so I thought I would share that.
Of course it will make you a target. Don’t just grow food for yourself. Give seeds, cuttings, and seedlings to your neighbors. We’ve got all of our surrounding neighbors gardening now. Instead of a threat, they’re now are allies. We swap food and help constantly, and watch each other’s homesteads. Now is the time to build community, not isolate.
Indeed, growing our own food is a big step towards self sufficientcy. I have a very sunny yard where I could make a big garden, many of my friends are experienced gardeners and would happily give me tips on how to make the best garden. Also if your city allows it, you could have a chicken or two for daily eggs. If you don’t have meat, you can make high protein meals with different types of beans, different grains, cheese all on the cheap side. I think people will be creative in being self sufficient. By the way Bjorn, a very happy birthday to you today ! 🎉🎂🍰🍺🥳🎁😘
I live in a national park in the U S. I feel that I am safer here than in a city. But I know trouble could reach me. I believe my odds are better here than living surrounded by people. I am 74 so too old to run any further. I will have to stay, prepare as best i can and pray.
Thankyou Bjorn and your pooches...enjoyed your talk and walk about...tour of your country... Good ole days and good old ways... might have to go back to them! 👍🏽🤔🇨🇦💕
I have a hard time growing veggies but I have raised livestock for over a decade. Chickens, turkeys, guineas, goats. I have learned a lot . I know how to forage and live in a place where fishing and hunting are abundant. We have a small property with a couple of acres and we are within walking distance of a lake. You bring up good points. We also have large stores of rice, grains and beans. And other staples. It can be overwhelming trying to think of everything so we focus on the things of highest importance for safety and surviving and flexibility. Thank you for your videos. I get the impression from the family I still have in Norway that what you are doing isn’t real common. They think I am crazy!
Incredibly vital skill to know and it builds on itself and creates environmental comfort/awareness and confidence, like knowing how to make a fire and bow drill, you don't need to know a lot to start with. Even just saving seeds maybe keeping a few herbs under a light for the kitchen or knowing what not to eat or even how to follow animals to edible food. I even recently started offering my teacher friends local school some free space they can grow fruit, vegetables and herbs on. I would even like to show them how to keep bees, rather than just having a useless tennis court no one uses.
Hi Bjorn! Okay I haven’t watched the video yet, just read the title and had a comment with a “Smart Alec” quip of “only if you don’t share” lol 😂 No but seriously, I have many fruit trees and I deliberately don’t keep a front yard fence of any sort so my neighbors and anyone walking by, can help themselves to fruit! Well, during the lockdowns here in California, my neighbors who received food as their kids attend public school, shared SO much of their packaged foods and milk cartons etc that we didn’t have to buy milk & snacks for almost a year for my 3 kids - who attend Catholic school & don’t avail of the public school system. Okay now I can’t wait to hear your video over coffee ☕️
Before I bought my acreage in the riverland of South Australia, I thought about that question and many more. I've been awake for 20 years now. Everything is playing out just like I have read. I've had a rough life & thought, you know what? I'm sick and tired of running. So I chose to buy & plant roots. Knowing, they'll come for everything I have. I have chosen to stand my ground, and die on this bit of Mallee scrub I now call home. This is the hill I die on literally. Gob bless to all 🙏
I started growing my own food a few years ago, the skills can only be learned by trial & error but you get better every year. Individual plants in pots on shelves allows large amounts of plants in a small area, efficient use of water (water drips down from the top shelf) & keeps pests at bay. Green beans are a great starter plant, easy to germinate & taste great fresh from the garden, use very little land as they're climbers but obviously need poles to grow up. After you've been growing for a while, you need to start collecting & storing seeds at the end of the growing season, for next year, another skill you'll need to learn. A small greenhouse is also very useful, you can start off your plants earlier in the growing season, increasing yields, by planting under glass first.
Planting food sources away from the home may have benefits, like areas where not many venture but wild insects and animals may cosume it if you dont protect it here in uk my area slugs and snails are a real issue.
I've been growing vegetables all summer. Everything turned out well and was pretty simple. All I have is about a 10x10 growing space. I have so much vegetables I'm giving some away to family, friends and neighbors. I've been talked down my whole life about growing food. They all said I would have to be out in the field for 13 hours a day seven days a week which was such a lie! Crops can only grow so fast.
good job... you have an abundant water supply. I am carrying buckets of water from a hand-pumped well about 50 meters away because I don't have running water. It doesn't take me 13 hours a day but it does take me about 3 hours a day of work because it has not rained once this summer where I live and it is hot. You are right though, if I had a hose and water it wouldn't take much work to grow enough food for a small family to eat for the summer. The hardest work comes with drying and canning herbs and veggies for fall, winter and next spring. Then, the labor of curing meats and making cheese if you are not a vegan. Depends where you live I guess.
Grow my own. When i found out i was deplorable i mastered fermentation. Make sauerkraut pickles and pickled veg. Next up is canning. Thanks for the video.
Canning is so addictive: water bath, pressure, steam juice, dry - have a look at Leadfarmer73's humorous videos on getting 'addicted' to canning, he is so right!
The globalists had engineered things so that the majority would be living in city flats, most without balconies. I don't remember any of my late Grandfather's friends who didn't have large gardens and allotments. Those people had pigs, eggs and plentiful produce, they supplements by helping on farms. Most people these days are lucky to have any semblance of a garden and waiting lists on allotments can be ridiculous. I am so lucky to have a garden, I gave up my allotments, but I always wanted to move somewhere with more land, I just always had commitments that made that impossible.
I have a sign about 150 yards from my place, it reads "If you can read this, I won't miss" and there's 3 bullet holes in a inch group on the sign.. I will not be a victim.
I am learning about foraging using backyard weeds and herbs. It's a lot but I believe will be well worth my time invested. Thank you for always being the calm in the coming storm!
Been growing my own food for 4 years now. Finally getting there hang of it. This year has been the first year of harvesting seeds. It's going well. Chicken is pretty easy to grow, but they have a short life span and after about 2 years their egg production goes down. Roosters are vital to keep the cycle going.
I live in a closed neighborhood. We have a ‘guard shack’ entering the neighborhood and it can be armed if necessary. I also have a garden in the backyard that is covered with a six foot high wooden fence. We are well hidden and can defend our neighborhood.
I grow potatoes in pots in the garden. No fertiliser needed just compost or normal soil. If you grow them in pots you don't have to worry about disease spreading through the soil. You don't need to do any cutting back or any thing besides a little water during dry spells. You can pull them up or leave them in the soil and collect them only when you need them. They are easy to store too if you pull them up. Great easy crop to grow. I have many other crops but that's the best imo
I am glad you mentioned small apartments. I live in one, but have been stocking up in many places in my apt. Under tables and desks, under my bed, in closets and cabinets....book shelves, coverd with curtains so any prying eyes don't see what is on the shelves. I also have two raised garden beds, 4 x 8....but going carnivore mostly I have to rethink what I will use those for.
Hello from the Washington State coastline. Great video. Beautiful landscape. The woods can supply most things. Location is very important. Need to be able to survive were you are living but ready to move to a new location
I'm not a prepper. I don't have the space or the forward planning needed to be successful to do this. But for me one of the most important thing is knowing what wild foods are safe to eat and when to collect (also helpful knowing what else you can do with plants (eg making ropes, baskets, glue etc), basic emergency shelter skills and knowing your wider area really well without a map. It makes me so happy being outdoors anyway - constantly walking between villages, towns and the nearest cities is good practice for always knowing your location and routes to places, as well as always knowing where the nearest brooks or main rivers are, and observing which useful plant grows where across the counties. I would like to prep, it's not practical for me though. i love gardening and used to grow loads of my own food when i had a garden. I 'm not confident how to preserve things though - I tried before and was rubbish at it. I think I should start to try to preserve again. It's a really important skill to have.
We are working on a greenhouse in our side yard - it is fairly large will be ready next year. We have done growing in hay bales - it works well for tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini too but needs a faster growing season as we had in South Carolina- now we are in Oregon - greenhouse is needed.👍😊
On the topic about growing your own food, I've sort of started by making my own bread but would love to do more. If I could, I'd get a good size of land and start a farm.
Making your own yeast and flour would be cool too. I am looking for land right now (still after a year of looking) and I would like to make a small wind mill that has multiple functions. First, turn a series of alternators for energy, second to grind grain, plus a few more functions.
I'm preparing my garden now, next year I will be planting my first crops, here's hoping I don't mess it up, even making a small place for potential chickens.
Yes, absolutely. I have canned tuna, peanut butter, dried fruit, jerky, freeze dried meals and bottled water stored in my cupboard. It would probably only last my family a few days but at least it is something. We have go bags too.
@David Vincent get him in there - the thing is I can train people all day in Horticulture methods BUT still forget the routine and important touches a life time have learned me...
I enjoy your talk Björn, what I said makes sense we should be Able to survive whiteout a homestead . In the forest with what is available and some prep. Always enjoy watching u . I said it before you make my day.
A US company called 4patriots sells a 3 month supply of good quality food without MSG, in Mylar bags. Those of us who live in hurricane country use this sort of thing, MRE’s or freeze dried food, to make it through the storms. Having a small garden or grow some vegetables in containers, is good for the soul.
Fortunately I've always been interested in shooting hunting foraging and fishing, Also planted fruit trees around four years ago and vegetable garden this year, also I can highly recommend getting a few chickens, I recently got four and they really are easy to look after and are now producing eggs every day. But I also appreciate that there may come a time where I have to leave all this behind and go.
We should have additional food. Can, Freeze and dry your garden delights. Just carried 50 lbs of tomatoes into the house. Unfortunately, big city folks have few options beyond rice and beans.
Beautiful area, I have a garden and have learned how to preserve my food several different ways. It takes years to perfect skills from seed to harvest. I am still learning but feel I am ahead of the curve. You can't be lazy. It's hard work. Love the channel, blessings from Iowa.
I live on about 5 acres of private property alot of flat land next to farms and pastures, I am about 30 miles from any considerable size city and about 10-15 miles from any town , i have about 300 dollars of packaged tuna and salmon, oatmeal packs, fig bars spam, canned goods, most here in Texas would band together and pool resources
Love grown our own veggies the taste so much better on holidays for a week in selsey in london enjoying the country views chalet are lovely here watching ur blog today 👍
I have a generator for backup power. Trouble is, if it's an extended grid down, I'll be a target for sure to all those unprepared......Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
Hello Bjorn! Im looking forward everyday for your videos. You say things and i cant express them myself:) It would be a pleasure to watch more videos on this topic from you :) Have a nice day!
If you combine growing your own fruits and vegetables with raising chickens, you can cover a lot of bases, food-wise. You don't need to slaughter the chickens: you can simply raise them for their eggs. Chickens don't require a lot of space, they're generally quiet, and you can feed them a lot of your scraps as well.
Prepping and living in an apartment is definitely not easy, but it can be done. My family and I live in a two bedroom apartment and we do all we can to make sure that we have extra food, water, and necessities stored for emergencies and for any kind of SHTF situation that may arise. We even do drills and test each other on possible defensive positions and escape paths from the apartment if we cannot bug in. Please, everyone, prepare, prepare, prepare. Even if its just small things, it will help if a situation arises and make sure you include your children and even pets in your escape and preparedness plans.
Well said, Jeffrey!
yes, i really wish my partner & family & friends would 'realise' this :'(
@@imbolc8024 Best thing I can say is to just keep preparing yourself and keep showing them how helpful it really is. If possible, prepare extra to cover them to show them you're thinking of their well being. I have plenty of friends that look at what I do and think I'm crazy or overreacting. But when SHTF happens, I'll be ready as will my family.
Totally! You can grow a lot of food in just a 4ft by 4ft space. There is also growing on top of roofs if you're lucky enough to have a flat roof & have access to it.
@@gwain7179 what a jolly good idea. Thanks
Learning how to grow food is a must for prepping but for me, learning what foods you can forage in your area is just as important!..
Yes, foraging is very important to learn and everyone's ability will differ pending on their locations. It's good to forage while your crops grow so they have the proper time to grow.
The stinging nettle seeds is a nutrion bomb. So if you losing energy this can save your life.
Absolutely. Just make sure you know what's what before poppin' it in your mouth
Learning how to grow & forage your own food, isn't a prepper thing, it's what our ancestors learned how to do to survive. They didn't do it for a "what if" thing. We just need to get back in touch with our ancestral roots & wake up.
@@AlleyCat-1 I couldn't of said it better than that... We need to get back to living off and from the earth... Wed all be better off
Good observations Bjorn, people need to be careful and be flexible.
We little old ladies here in the American south are well known to have vegetable gardens, chickens, other small animals, we can food, smoke food, altogether we are just southern grandmas who everyone just takes for granted that's what we do, grow food and feed everybody. We may get away with it for longer than some in many other places, but there will be a time that will try our souls, we realize our time is short now. By the grace of God, we aren't old because we're foolish😉, but because we trust in him.
I salute you Grandma. Sadly I don't have a Grandma (or pa) any more 😢. Keep on keepin on.
❤ from a Northern old lady.
Reminds me of my grandma, here in the north of the Netherlands. Take good care, and God bless you.
Greetings, T.
Amen to that Geann...from a Gramp Yankee with all the same skills.
Bravo...God bless you!!! Southerner myself!!
I was rubbish at growing food when I first went off grid, but little by little I'm getting better.. its a real sense of achievement to see something you planted grow, then harvest and finally eat.. with the added bonus of not giving one penny to a global corporation..
I knew I'd see you here sometime. Hope you're doing ok mate. ✌️
Me too the weather has been awful in uk . All my tomatoes got blight .
@@ladywinter2536 Crikey....the damn blight....... reminds me of when I was flying my Spitfire Over Dover and I look down and I see people's tomatoes with the blight
@@glennbeadshaw727 wow that must have been an odd sight .
@@wolfie498 hi mate, dare say I'll see you shortly in the house of scrubbage.
Sadly there are VERY FEW people today who are capable of surviving without a grocery store or supplied energy.. Those who can will be faced with warding off scavengers who are incapable of surviving without stealing from those who are! Many will have to choose who they will allow into their immediate circle.... Perilous days ahead,,,
Truth. Look at what happened during the winter blizzard in Texas. So many people were completely unprepared. We aren't used to that kind of weather, but they warned everyone that it was coming. 😔
Agree
We will find a way.
It’s nearly impossible to grow all the food a family will consume in a year. You need lots of land, time, helping hands, equipment and storage space. Staples such as rice, wheat, salt and sugar, has to be purchased in most cases. Our ancestors purchased food too and bartered for it.
@@thosewhobelieve122 I agree.. there are many things which must be purchased and stored as much as possible,, It would be nearly impossible to live completely off the land, especially as an individual or individual family... for a sustained period of time this will require "communal" living and effort...
People in northern Scotland where I am.. 100 years ago they lived on fish, potatoes, kale & oatmeal & that's about it. Perfectly healthy.
Much like what hubby and I are working on now, simplifying down to a store of meat, potatoes, fats, salt, and foraged greens, nuts, berries, and other fruit. By foraged, I mean we actually use our somewhat wooded lot to grow many wild edibles so no one realizes how much food we really have available year-round. We figured the simpler it is, the better.
@Shed Life Too many forgot God, all we have built he allowed, as long as we honored him.
It'll turn around when Gods ready
@@sweaterdoll
Its permaculture what you're practising by the sound of it. Harmony with nature, and growing what grows locally.
@@lsmith992 I've been enjoying Edible Acres and some other video channels, but never really knew what it mean. I would very much like to see our yard gone wild (it's over wooded and whatever lawns and gardens there were years ago are now mostly beneficial food and medicine weeds that took over by themselves) developed more that way. Yay!
I am originally from Bulgaria. 35 years ago we used to produce 70-80% of our food.
I grow my own veggies I hunt fish and trap. I live in Tennessee USA and there’s a saying here.A COUNTRY Boy can SURVIVE
I think the most important, and most overlooked survival skill that anyone can learn but so very few do is relationship. If you build truly meaningful relationships with individuals in your community (within walkable geographic location), you gain an invaluable resource that will prove supremely beneficial in a multitude of circumstances.
As an introvert, that is hard for me to say and even harder for me to act upon. But I believe it to be true regardless.
Only so much you can accomplish on your own.
If you can find like-minded people. Banding together for labour and protection is sensible.
Very true, when this current shenanigans started I started bringing eggs to the neighbors across the street because there were none on the shelves at the grocery. They wanted to pay for them so I take a little money and put it in for the chicken food. Just last week they gave me about 10 lbs of peaches and apples. But more importantly we have built a bit of relationship, which is even better.
I believe we are going to realize the importance of relationship ~ God bless you ~
Yes, every one should have a small garden every year because it can takes years to gain gardening skills.
Most people, even if they live in a small apartment they can set up a container garden on their balcony or even a few fruit or vegetables plants in doors near a window to get sunlight and can buy a grow lamp to give additional light & be able to grow a few things year round.
Growing your own food is a good start, but people also need to learn how to preserve what they grow (canning, dehydrating, freeze drying) so that they can start building up their pantry. If preserved properly, most fruits and vegetables can be stored for quite a long time.
You can never grow too much food, what you do not use fresh you can preserve until you have a good 2 or 3 years of food stored and donate some of the fresh fruits & vegetables to friends, family & local food banks.
The more people who are growing at least some of their own food with out chemical pesticides & fertilizers will improve health & will reduce the need for so much commercial farming & transporting the food thousands of miles.
your right i did them for years and this frist year i got FOOD and give some away. i learned even more so next year be way better yay :D
been saying it for decades, knowledge of your local flora/fauna is priceless
I have to chuckle at the thought of "average" people growing and preserving their own food. Ever increasing numbers can't even be bothered to go to the supermarket or cook their own meals. They have their grocery orders delivered or rely on doordash etc for fast food crap. Especially the younger generations. I have nieces and nephews in their 20s whose idea of paradise is never having to leave their apartments for anything. They're going to be helpless if there's a prolonged power, internet outage.
@@terryboyer1342 OMG if my internet gos out i might have to play with my cat
@@terryboyer1342 those are the people who will kill you. Folks get stupid when knocked out of their comfort zones
cans and pantry food are a finite resource if we don't know how to replenish it by growing food. Grew some peas, carrots and strawberries at the start of this year, now I'm growing radishes and kale in the same spot. Also have multiple potato plants. It's not enough to live off of, but I gotta start somewhere :)
Do you know about the nitrogen fixing bacteria on the roots of peas and beans? If you dig up a plant, you can see little white nodules all over the root system - that is free nitrate for another crop, preferably one that will benefit from nitrate - such as a leafy crop or potatoes. Just dig them in where you need them next. Peas and beans are a good back up source of protein as well, should access to meat be difficult. I can veg, fruit and dry produce - I live in an old terraced house, but I am the point where I could get by for months if I had to. It is well worth persevering, try to get next year's seeds by Sept. Good luck.
If you can't grow food the best thing to do if you are in a small apartment is to store tins. They keep well past the use by date, years even depending on what the food is.
15 years ago I planted a "hidden in plain sight" forest garden. The average person wouldn't recognise the vegetables types. Lots of andean tuber crops, perennial onions, skirret, achira, perennial greens. I dotted in a lot of highly poisonous plants with them too, to make it interesting for the marauders.😂
I love that idea with poisonous plants haha!
@@SkiesOfBlue4MeAndYou lol. Aye, guess I was quite ahead of the game. 😂
Growing and raising your own food is important and I would recommend trying to do so now while there is still some safety net. Growing enough food to survive on is more difficult than most imagine, so getting idea of what is realistic for yourself in your area with your skills and resources is extremely important.
Read as much as you can about farming -- what kind of soil is the best for different crops, what are the seasons for common crops, how to treat diseases, crop rotation, raised bed, cold frames. Buy farming books and learn these techniques first.
I'm a freshman gardener and I'm already producing so much more than I can consume that I've had to learn canning.
Excellent advice!
@@Nightdiver20 Thats wonderful and I don’t want to discourage anyone, but have you tried surviving on only what you grow? You might be able to grow 100lbs of tomatoes and carrots but how quickly would your physical and mental health decline if that’s all you are eating?
@@thomaskreke4635 Of course not, it's all supplemental to what I already have stored at this point but it's certainly been encouraging. And there's been a learning curve, the squash and cabbage got eaten up pretty badly. But everything else has gone pretty well. You have to try to keep potatoes from growing and that's where you get the most ROI in my opinion.
Some of us have medically fragile children, our child is wheelchair/homebound. There is no bugging out or living off the land option. we try to live self-sustaining as much as possible but have to be within an hour of a major hospital for our child. We do what we can and leave the rest to God from whom all blessings come. The duty is ours the outcome is God's.
If it gets as bad as some are thinking, the hospitals probably won't be very reliable meds too. Try to get extra meds to store is at all possible.
@@stephanieaskew771 I can not get extra meds for him, nor mine, I have RA, I can live without mine (Ill just be in a lot of pain and unable to move well) but he can not live without his. One of his is a med pump in his tummy that must be refilled every three months ... it is life-threatening if he doesn't. He is only one example of the disabled community. when talking about these things it's very sobering and it has very disturbing outcomes for most of us in this community.
@@GenuinlyTransformed Yes. A lot of people will die in an SHTF event for that very reason--lack of medicine/treatments. People like your child(ren) will be in a bad situation. As far as affecting the general population, I worry about people like drug addicts and people who take psych meds not getting their meds or "fix."
@@GenuinlyTransformed It can help a bit to learn about herbal medicine. There are powerful plants growing all around us. Also using nutrition to boost health, and stocking up on supplements, which won't necessarily heal all ailments but can make a big difference. For nutritional advice I like to watch Dr Eric Berg, and for learning about herbal medicines, 'She is of the Woods.' If you can get in touch with other preppers, especially those with medical training, it will help to give you peace of mind.
@@GenuinlyTransformed yes,i totally understand & relate with u & your concerns, same here (very ill), and depending on docs... bless you & your family 🙏
Everyone in my area has a big garden. We share, some have fruit others vegetables. No one steals.
Hi Bjorn , being self sufficient is good , If you have the land to be able to do so , it would help if you could band together with like minded people to create a tribe for protection also . Be Well my Friend , Strength and Honour !.
Lease land
You dont have to buy it
Greetings from Chile Bjorn. I'd like to introduce Chile's background considering what you expose in this video. Chile's been since the last dictatorship an experiment of neoliberalism. Rich people here have wanted to have the same richness situation in comparison to a rich person from a first world country, and they have showed our country as abundant, but the difference is that Chile's incomes are from comoditites and food. And I think that's the worst scenenario because people here have believed that we are some kind of first-world country in Latin America, and that's a lie. And the consequence we are living now is the water shortage and most of people are not get used to have an independent and self-sustainable life, and even it's worst due to our negation and underrate of our roots (native people). I think that to be self-sustainable and independent, first we have to encounter again with our roots from our native people. They knew how to be self-sustainable and the only way to survive from a shift scenerario is to get the wisdom from them. This is not capitalism versus comunism, this is a situation where all of us have been slept and comfortable in a scenerario where we tought it was going to last forever, but the reality is that scenenario has the days count.
It's very popular in Ireland .. plus big community gardens also set up ... most people grow their own food.
It's amazing just how much food can be grown in tubs, planters and window boxes!
Remember folks, the humble stinging nettle is your best friend when it comes to nutritional value!
Also well you still have the chance, make a map and mark down all the wild edibles and natural resources you can in your local environment!
There's plenty of hard times coming and hard decisions to take, but I found growing your own food to be as much about learning from the failures as to the successes!
I have been blessed by my previous experiences. I had my own garden for years and did a lot of food preservation. I am also proficient at foraging native wild foods. And I worked on a cattle ranch for years. I learned how to hunt, fish and camp at an early age. I am currently working on maximizing my food storage. And I have now built up my natural immunity to this current dis-ease. I am staying positive, alert and focused to take on whatever challenges might be coming up in the future 😊
Improving my preservation skills was my goal this past year - I have learned all that I have from Homesteaders based in the US. I have numerous books, but the equipment that is common place in the US is virtually unheard of here in the UK. I was fortunate to get everything before the shortages hit in full. I am so grateful to all the people who take the trouble to show the rest of us how to do all of these various things and teach us the necessary skills.
Planted my first crop last week hopefully it works out
That place is beautiful my friend. God Bless You And Yours!! Watching from Mid Tennessee.
NW Tennessee here.
Hi from Ireland
One would hope that if you know your neighbors, everyone will work together and contribute! If your not familiar with chickens, and have the land, they are really easy and you can feed them your left overs!! Biggest thing is to protect them at night!
I wish I knew you! You would be a friend. You seem to have a gentle soul! From Mesa, Arizona!!
Do whatever you can,
for as long as you can, until you can't no more!
Here in Ireland Bjorn,many people are going back to grow their own vegetables,like ,cabbage,Brussel sprouts,onions, carrots etc next week I start prepping the back garden,looking forward to it.
Good advice, planted a huge garden (for us and to sell) this year as well as filling the pantry... we've abandoned our knowledge as our lives have became more and more comfortable. It's time for things to start progressing back the other direction.
Veggies won't last you very long. You need about 400g of dried grain per day to survive, or 8kg of vegetables.
@@sdrc92126 not 8 kg of potatoes or beans per day.
@@sdrc92126 I will eat only animals ..uxh more efficient
@@incelproud2670 Nope. ~400g of grains/potatoes/rice/corn or beans is equal to 8kg tomato, celerey, letuce, cucumber, etc. I calculated what it requires to stay alive for a year (@2000cal/day):
465 lbs pinto beans
442 lbs rice
480 lbs wheat
418 lbs corn
@@sdrc92126 nope. You do not need 8kg of potatoes or beans a day. I calculated it. There are approximately 700 calories in 1kg of potatoes.
So glad my parents taught me these skills when I was a kid! Thanks Bjorn for your thought-provoking and insightful videos! Keep up the good work! Really enjoy your channel here in Colorado, USA 🇺🇸 👍
can't grow a garden where I live, but I can shop a few months into the future. it's a start anyway.
I only have a small garden at the moment but it is pretty successful. I have a two year old tomato plant even though my winters get to -40 degrees Fahrenheit. I moved some plants inside during the winter and most of them survived.
I thought tomato plants die after fruiting with a lifespan of a year?
@@jamesdeegan7365 they are supposed to be seasonal. I am not an experienced farmer so I don't know what I did right but my biggest plant is going on 2 years and still bearing fruit. I kept it in my back room all winter (which stayed at about 60 degrees F) and it stayed alive. It stopped producing during the cold months but started back up when I transitioned it back outside.
Most of my pepper plants died inside though. They like it hot and 60 wasn't enough to sustain them. They got funguses and parasites all winter because.of the cold that seeped into the back door.
@@jamesdeegan7365 No, not neccessarily. In countries, where the winters don't get cold the plants may become 2-3 years old, but they need a certain amount of warmth and light during the winter to make it.
@@naekki18schlumpf A green house is a must in my area for winter crops. I don't have the space yet but I am working on it.
Keep seeds from it, that's a better option.
I had the first garden in three years! I had to down size because of my age! Planted corn, tomatoes, rattlesnake beans, and peas! Beans and peas did great, put much in the freezer!
Don’t forget to collect food for and consider the needs of yer animals too!
Why is something that was so common up through the 70's and even up to the 80's now considered prepping and so dangerous? It makes no damn sense.
Our parents, grandparents and great grandparents for the most part had gardens and before that most were full on farmers. What is it now that makes growing food and collecting rain water so dangerous to governments?
The governments are controlled by Freemasons. Goal of this organisation is to implement communism on a global scale. Nobody owns anything in communism, and especially land!
Because they fear you.
I am a Michigan resident, I enjoy watching your videos because you speak your mind, something many people nowadays are afraid to do. So keep it up and my friend, stay independent and keep making videos 💯 you have real knowledge and morals that should never be forgotten.
With our high metal fence and dogs parking (in our bugout location where we also grow our food)? I do not think so. Most people here do not have fences around their farms or cabins - and if they do, then mostly low wooden fences, that is easy to cross. But I would be very worried in a SHTF situation without the fence - I think it is a must have investment
I thought that the left would have taught you that walls don't work! ;-) what about planes? ;-P
I'm not knocking your fence - at all, it's a good idea - just don't let the measure of comfort it gives rob you of your vigilance.
@@Ghost_Os In SHTF situation for sure. Most likely have to sleep in shifts, if things get very bad
@@yoink128ify They may not work, but they will slow down - sometimes it is all you need
It's crazy too, I started learning all the natural edibles and medicines in my area. In the past couple years it has put the woods I've lived in for 30 years in a whole new perspective. Poisonous plants as well and are just as important.
I've been growing food for a long time. It seems simple, but actually has a fairly robust learning curve if you want to be reliably successful in it. Your environment and what you plan to grow in it matter and will impact the techniques needed to be efficient and productive. That said, growing food for yourself is definitely a possibility for being targeted when things head south. If you work to be discrete in your agricultural pursuits (if you can be) it is possible to go 'unnoticed' by others. Large farms are big, obvious targets. Think small and disbursed gardens whenever possible.
@scout discover what the problem is and try again! Finding experienced people who can advise you is a treasure! There are plenty of good gardening books out there, and also videos on the interwebs! The important thing is to develop competency now, while things are still relatively calm, instead of trying to figure it out when your life depends on your ability to produce your own food!
I look at it from this point of view: Those who have little awareness of gardening - the type of people who would normally tell you that there is no point to gardening, because everything is so readily available in the supermarket - will not be paying attention in time. By the time most people work out there is a problem, this season's stuff (next year's food) will be safely stored away. By next year, if things are as bad as is being said, they won't be in a position to go searching and robbing. We have never been in times like this, we are yet to see the potential fallout from the V. with a food crisis and potential energy disruption on top. In my country, hardly anyone is prepared on a day to day basis. Everybody thinks they can hunt or fish if they need to - that will be a lot of clueless people chasing a few manky animals, not a great result.
@scout every year as you add compost and nutrients to your garden it will get better. It is very hard to be successful in the first year without huge investments. Keep it simple. Keep some animals so you can use their manure. Goat and sheep manure is cool and can be added directly to the garden.
I own about 19 acres of forested land. Within those woods I have created random gardens that are not visible from outside the forest.
Do not store all your survival food in one single cache.
😂 anything gets you targeted nowadays😂
Most especially half a brain
@@sundial6919 lol 😂
Woodpile report used to advocate having caches of food. He also had small gardens hidden in the woods. Most people don't recognize food plants because they've never gardened.
Thank you, sir. You are speaking to everyone here, not just to those who have land and a house. I once watched a video of a lady who lived in an apartment. I was amazed at all the places she found to store food and water. She bought a few of those shelf units that hang on the back of doors, some were plastic, other were made of cloth, and she stuffed all kinds of food in them, under furniture, under the sink in the kitchen and bathroom, trunk of her car, in closets, in the back seat of her car on the floor- covered so it just looked like a coat was just thrown there, SUITCASES (why leave them empty just taking up space?)... Just think of all the junk you have that you really don't need taking up space in these areas that you could be storing supplies in! I watch a lot of these preppers and they don't seem to offer any help/hope to those who live in apartments, so I thought I would share that.
I think another important skill will be knowing how to hide 🤔
Of course it will make you a target.
Don’t just grow food for yourself. Give seeds, cuttings, and seedlings to your neighbors.
We’ve got all of our surrounding neighbors gardening now. Instead of a threat, they’re now are allies. We swap food and help constantly, and watch each other’s homesteads.
Now is the time to build community, not isolate.
Great idea and well said.
People are always a threat.
Making someone an "insider" is the best way to keep them on your side.
@@Frostforged All people, plants, animals, and inanimate objects an be either an asset or a liability
EAST Tennessee USA 🇺🇸♥🌱
Love your content keep up the good work!!
Indeed, growing our own food is a big step towards self sufficientcy. I have a very sunny yard where I could make a big garden, many of my friends are experienced gardeners and would happily give me tips on how to make the best garden. Also if your city allows it, you could have a chicken or two for daily eggs. If you don’t have meat, you can make high protein meals with different types of beans, different grains, cheese all on the cheap side. I think people will be creative in being self sufficient. By the way Bjorn, a very happy birthday to you today ! 🎉🎂🍰🍺🥳🎁😘
I live in a national park in the U S. I feel that I am safer here than in a city. But I know trouble could reach me. I believe my odds are better here than living surrounded by people. I am 74 so too old to run any further. I will have to stay, prepare as best i can and pray.
Thankyou Bjorn and your pooches...enjoyed your talk and walk about...tour of your country... Good ole days and good old ways... might have to go back to them! 👍🏽🤔🇨🇦💕
I have a hard time growing veggies but I have raised livestock for over a decade. Chickens, turkeys, guineas, goats. I have learned a lot . I know how to forage and live in a place where fishing and hunting are abundant. We have a small property with a couple of acres and we are within walking distance of a lake. You bring up good points. We also have large stores of rice, grains and beans. And other staples. It can be overwhelming trying to think of everything so we focus on the things of highest importance for safety and surviving and flexibility. Thank you for your videos. I get the impression from the family I still have in Norway that what you are doing isn’t real common. They think I am crazy!
Thank you for your time, your insights and your expertise, as well as your caring soul.
Incredibly vital skill to know and it builds on itself and creates environmental comfort/awareness and confidence, like knowing how to make a fire and bow drill, you don't need to know a lot to start with. Even just saving seeds maybe keeping a few herbs under a light for the kitchen or knowing what not to eat or even how to follow animals to edible food. I even recently started offering my teacher friends local school some free space they can grow fruit, vegetables and herbs on. I would even like to show them how to keep bees, rather than just having a useless tennis court no one uses.
Hi Bjorn! Okay I haven’t watched the video yet, just read the title and had a comment with a “Smart Alec” quip of “only if you don’t share” lol 😂 No but seriously, I have many fruit trees and I deliberately don’t keep a front yard fence of any sort so my neighbors and anyone walking by, can help themselves to fruit! Well, during the lockdowns here in California, my neighbors who received food as their kids attend public school, shared SO much of their packaged foods and milk cartons etc that we didn’t have to buy milk & snacks for almost a year for my 3 kids - who attend Catholic school & don’t avail of the public school system. Okay now I can’t wait to hear your video over coffee ☕️
August, no heat as I expected ! To late to grow, except for inside !
Texas Here you are a very sensible man love your walk in the Woods Talks👍👍
I am now member on bjorn talks and your main channel. Thank you for the great video
Great way to start the day! Good morning 😃
Very good to have a prepper's pantry in addition to a veggie garden and some chickens or maybe an aquaponics setup.
Hi Bjorn! Preppers also need fully stocked medical supplies . Be safe Take care Many blessings to you!
Before I bought my acreage in the riverland of South Australia, I thought about that question and many more. I've been awake for 20 years now. Everything is playing out just like I have read. I've had a rough life & thought, you know what? I'm sick and tired of running.
So I chose to buy & plant roots. Knowing, they'll come for everything I have. I have chosen to stand my ground, and die on this bit of Mallee scrub I now call home.
This is the hill I die on literally.
Gob bless to all 🙏
I started growing my own food a few years ago, the skills can only be learned by trial & error but you get better every year. Individual plants in pots on shelves allows large amounts of plants in a small area, efficient use of water (water drips down from the top shelf) & keeps pests at bay. Green beans are a great starter plant, easy to germinate & taste great fresh from the garden, use very little land as they're climbers but obviously need poles to grow up. After you've been growing for a while, you need to start collecting & storing seeds at the end of the growing season, for next year, another skill you'll need to learn. A small greenhouse is also very useful, you can start off your plants earlier in the growing season, increasing yields, by planting under glass first.
Planting food sources away from the home may have benefits, like areas where not many venture but wild insects and animals may cosume it if you dont protect it here in uk my area slugs and snails are a real issue.
Aaarrrgh the slugs!!! I hate the fat ones that stretch out to about 8 inches long. YUK!
Cover your garden soil with coffee. Caffeine is a slug neurotoxin. Or at least circle the plants with it.
I've been growing vegetables all summer. Everything turned out well and was pretty simple. All I have is about a 10x10 growing space. I have so much vegetables I'm giving some away to family, friends and neighbors. I've been talked down my whole life about growing food. They all said I would have to be out in the field for 13 hours a day seven days a week which was such a lie! Crops can only grow so fast.
Should be putting them up for later.. 22# of fresh green beans is 22 days of 1 meal w green beans as a side ( family of 5) after processing
If you have the right conditions it really helps. Most plants need sun to do well.
good job... you have an abundant water supply. I am carrying buckets of water from a hand-pumped well about 50 meters away because I don't have running water. It doesn't take me 13 hours a day but it does take me about 3 hours a day of work because it has not rained once this summer where I live and it is hot. You are right though, if I had a hose and water it wouldn't take much work to grow enough food for a small family to eat for the summer. The hardest work comes with drying and canning herbs and veggies for fall, winter and next spring. Then, the labor of curing meats and making cheese if you are not a vegan. Depends where you live I guess.
@Shed Life Yes, I agree.
Grow my own. When i found out i was deplorable i mastered fermentation. Make sauerkraut pickles and pickled veg. Next up is canning. Thanks for the video.
Canning is so addictive: water bath, pressure, steam juice, dry - have a look at Leadfarmer73's humorous videos on getting 'addicted' to canning, he is so right!
@@voxintenebris6367 i will thank you
Growing our own food is a must. It helps with mental, emotional and physical stresses. Plus the health benefits are so worth it!
The globalists had engineered things so that the majority would be living in city flats, most without balconies. I don't remember any of my late Grandfather's friends who didn't have large gardens and allotments. Those people had pigs, eggs and plentiful produce, they supplements by helping on farms. Most people these days are lucky to have any semblance of a garden and waiting lists on allotments can be ridiculous. I am so lucky to have a garden, I gave up my allotments, but I always wanted to move somewhere with more land, I just always had commitments that made that impossible.
I have a sign about 150 yards from my place, it reads "If you can read this, I won't miss" and there's 3 bullet holes in a inch group on the sign..
I will not be a victim.
I am learning about foraging using backyard weeds and herbs. It's a lot but I believe will be well worth my time invested. Thank you for always being the calm in the coming storm!
I've been saying for a year and a half, if possible, grow some food ( organic ) , barter/share/care... GIVE !!!
EMBRACE EACH OTHER
Been growing my own food for 4 years now. Finally getting there hang of it. This year has been the first year of harvesting seeds. It's going well. Chicken is pretty easy to grow, but they have a short life span and after about 2 years their egg production goes down. Roosters are vital to keep the cycle going.
I live in a closed neighborhood. We have a ‘guard shack’ entering the neighborhood and it can be armed if necessary. I also have a garden in the backyard that is covered with a six foot high wooden fence. We are well hidden and can defend our neighborhood.
I enjoy your videos and I love the scenery of your country. Thank you!
Growing food is great and so important on many levels. Food, independence, exercise, environment, wildlife, understanding. The list goes on.
mental health, soul expansion...
@@Jchathe yes, a brilliant activity. Bless you all.
Already know, but id rather be a hard target, than an easy statistic. Grow Lead also😎
They can take everything from you but knowledge. Stock up on knowledge.
Solid advice Bjorn. I'd like to hear "that's a discussion for another video" for the winter months, the purpose pantry, if you get time of course.
I grow potatoes in pots in the garden. No fertiliser needed just compost or normal soil. If you grow them in pots you don't have to worry about disease spreading through the soil. You don't need to do any cutting back or any thing besides a little water during dry spells. You can pull them up or leave them in the soil and collect them only when you need them. They are easy to store too if you pull them up. Great easy crop to grow. I have many other crops but that's the best imo
I am glad you mentioned small apartments. I live in one, but have been stocking up in many places in my apt. Under tables and desks, under my bed, in closets and cabinets....book shelves, coverd with curtains so any prying eyes don't see what is on the shelves. I also have two raised garden beds, 4 x 8....but going carnivore mostly I have to rethink what I will use those for.
Thank you for all the great motivation! Greetings from the swiss jura!
Hello from the Washington State coastline. Great video. Beautiful landscape. The woods can supply most things. Location is very important. Need to be able to survive were you are living but ready to move to a new location
I just ordered a book with 700 pages about wild food growing in Finland. I'll start learning those ;)
Is the book available in english ( or norwegian/swedish/danish)? If so, what is it called? :)
@@beavischrist5 I have some stored allready:)
I'm not a prepper. I don't have the space or the forward planning needed to be successful to do this. But for me one of the most important thing is knowing what wild foods are safe to eat and when to collect (also helpful knowing what else you can do with plants (eg making ropes, baskets, glue etc), basic emergency shelter skills and knowing your wider area really well without a map. It makes me so happy being outdoors anyway - constantly walking between villages, towns and the nearest cities is good practice for always knowing your location and routes to places, as well as always knowing where the nearest brooks or main rivers are, and observing which useful plant grows where across the counties. I would like to prep, it's not practical for me though. i love gardening and used to grow loads of my own food when i had a garden. I 'm not confident how to preserve things though - I tried before and was rubbish at it. I think I should start to try to preserve again. It's a really important skill to have.
We are working on a greenhouse in our side yard - it is fairly large will be ready next year. We have done growing in hay bales - it works well for tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini too but needs a faster growing season as we had in South Carolina- now we are in Oregon - greenhouse is needed.👍😊
On the topic about growing your own food, I've sort of started by making my own bread but would love to do more. If I could, I'd get a good size of land and start a farm.
Making your own yeast and flour would be cool too. I am looking for land right now (still after a year of looking) and I would like to make a small wind mill that has multiple functions. First, turn a series of alternators for energy, second to grind grain, plus a few more functions.
@@IchNachtLiebe I believe it was City Prepper who made a vid on making yeast from potatoes. It was in the last two mos, or so.
@@johnwick4257 I'll have to check it out. I've watched a few short videos but haven't put making yeast into practice.
@@IchNachtLiebe It seemed straight forward enough. Comes complete with a bread recipe! Stay well.
@@IchNachtLiebe Solar is much better.
I wish you all the best in the troubling times ahead brother Bjorn. Whatever you may think of me or my beliefs, you are still my brother.
I'm preparing my garden now, next year I will be planting my first crops, here's hoping I don't mess it up, even making a small place for potential chickens.
It's more or less too late fir most things in most areas I'd think. It takes 3-4 moths for most harvests.
Gardener Scott on here has some great videos for begginers , how to set up, what to plant ect.
He is a very calm and clear teacher.
Peace and tranquility, Way to go Bjorn with the food too. ✌️
Yes, absolutely. I have canned tuna, peanut butter, dried fruit, jerky, freeze dried meals and bottled water stored in my cupboard. It would probably only last my family a few days but at least it is something. We have go bags too.
it takes the skills of an old school pot farmer to grow in secret and w/o Boobie Traps.
@David Vincent get him in there - the thing is I can train people all day in Horticulture methods BUT still forget the routine and important touches a life time have learned me...
I enjoy your talk Björn, what I said makes sense we should be Able to survive whiteout a homestead . In the forest with what is available and some prep. Always enjoy watching u . I said it before you make my day.
A US company called 4patriots sells a 3 month supply of good quality food without MSG, in Mylar bags. Those of us who live in hurricane country use this sort of thing, MRE’s or freeze dried food, to make it through the storms. Having a small garden or grow some vegetables in containers, is good for the soul.
Supercute to get tangled :), such dear sweet greyhounds!♥
Fortunately I've always been interested in shooting hunting foraging and fishing, Also planted fruit trees around four years ago and vegetable garden this year, also I can highly recommend getting a few chickens, I recently got four and they really are easy to look after and are now producing eggs every day. But I also appreciate that there may come a time where I have to leave all this behind and go.
Growing your own herbs and learning how to forage are also important…
We should have additional food. Can, Freeze and dry your garden delights. Just carried 50 lbs of tomatoes into the house. Unfortunately, big city folks have few options beyond rice and beans.
Beautiful area, I have a garden and have learned how to preserve my food several different ways. It takes years to perfect skills from seed to harvest. I am still learning but feel I am ahead of the curve. You can't be lazy. It's hard work. Love the channel, blessings from Iowa.
I live on about 5 acres of private property alot of flat land next to farms and pastures, I am about 30 miles from any considerable size city and about 10-15 miles from any town , i have about 300 dollars of packaged tuna and salmon, oatmeal packs, fig bars spam, canned goods, most here in Texas would band together and pool resources
Bjorn, i follow curtis stone, he talks about many of the issues you talk about and especially gardening. cheers from New Zealand!
Beautiful day out with Bjorn
Love grown our own veggies the taste so much better on holidays for a week in selsey in london enjoying the country views chalet are lovely here watching ur blog today 👍
Good afternoon Bjorn, HI ELVIS- enjoy your walk
I have a generator for backup power. Trouble is, if it's an extended grid down, I'll be a target for sure to all those unprepared......Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
Hello Bjorn!
Im looking forward everyday for your videos. You say things and i cant express them myself:)
It would be a pleasure to watch more videos on this topic from you :)
Have a nice day!
If you combine growing your own fruits and vegetables with raising chickens, you can cover a lot of bases, food-wise. You don't need to slaughter the chickens: you can simply raise them for their eggs. Chickens don't require a lot of space, they're generally quiet, and you can feed them a lot of your scraps as well.