Surviving Another Depression.......What Would We Need?

My Aunt used to tell me about the 1918 Flu Epidemic. That seemed much more frightening to her than the depression.......and they grew up in the city. Right by a cemetary. She said as a child she could remember the steady stream of bodies being taken past their house to the cemetary.

My grandma creamed vegetables and even potatos when she cooked. She said during the depression her kids were always bringing other kids in to eat and even live. She had to stretch the food.

I thought her cooking was absolutely delicious.
 
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the coffee to go into the pot

bee hive so you can have honey and beeswax for candles

OH and beans...dried beans from your garden feeds lots of people...also can plant some for green beans
 
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Now more than ever, I miss my grandparents. They also grew up during the depression and never stopped living differently. My "pop-pop" always had a HUGE garden and 20-30 chickens. I really would have liked to talked to him this past summer when I was working my monster garden. My "nana" canned everything that wasn't used fresh. I would have loved to have her to fall back on in this first year of my canning endeavor. My first recollection of her canning was asking me to take the scrapes out and feed it to the chickens. Not knowing anything about feeding chickens, (I was about 10) I bounced out to the run, went inside, and proceeded to "feed the chickens". I didn't know that you don't feed scrapes to chickens the same way you do to dogs. So here I am running around trying to feed the chickens and wondering WHY they are running away from me. Pop-pop got quite a laugh before he came over and taught me how to "feed the chickens" I miss them both dearly as well as the cornucopia of living skills they took with them, that in my youthful arrogance I saw as just the way OLD people were. The joke is on me.
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That is one of the things we have been preparing for. So far we have the chickens, ducks and turkey's for meat and eggs, and goats for milk and milk products.
We also have a woodburning stove that can be cooked on and clothes line for drying clothes. Growing and canning helps out a lot too.
Check out the books by Bill Yachtman there are 2 that I know of but they are called Bad Times .... Good News I believe.... it has been a while since I read them, but they give you things you should have for about any emergency including natural disasters.
 
There is a series of books called "Foxfire" that have some pretty good tips on just about anything you can imagine as far as survival.
 

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