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A few sample survival traps for catching food

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Joel Dodge

Guerilla Gardening - Clandestine garden caches

Have you ever heard of a weed garden? NO NOT THAT ONE! A weed garden is a survival garden that you can grow out in the open and almost nobody but a trained or experienced gardener will recognize they are looking at food.

Pictured here is one of my instructional examples of how to grow food that most people wont recognize.

Pictured here:
We have the very delicious Raapi (an edible relative of Broccoli, cultivated for the large lush leaves instead of the flowerettes.)

Also, we have Mogri, the edible and amazingly tasty seed pods of the white icicle radish. There are many kinds of radish that can be cultivated in this way.

By placing uncommon food plants together and allowing them to grow alongside crab grass, yellow foxtail and other easily identified common weeds you can use the camouflage of ignorance to hide a living food cache in almost any easily accessed and easily ignored bit of fairly decent soil.

Selecting plants that either survive the winter or continually re-seed themselves can assure that your cache lasts over time. Allowing you to come back every year. Coming back after dark to gather and eat as you go.

Having a weed garden is the same concept as memorizing where wild edibles grow naturally, except you are the person that made them grow there.

Berry bushes go great with rhubarb and nobody ever gives a second glance to dandelion greens, wood sorrel, and chicory. Most people ignore them entirely. But in a survival situation where you have to be on the move, going from place to place, knowing where you will find a few quiet hidden meal can be a real lifesaver.

STUFFED MILKWEED PODS

Stuffed Milkweed Pods Recipe

 

4 oz. cream cheese softened
1 tbsp. diced red onion
2 slices of cooked bacon
1 small jalapeno chopped fine
salt and pepper
20 milkweed pods, boiled and split
bread crumbs

Heat oven to 375°F.

Place the softened cream cheese in a bowl and mix in the diced onion, jalapeno, bacon, salt and pepper. Remove the immature seeds and silk from the boiled milkweed pods, and spoon in about 2 tsp. of cream cheese filling until the pod is full.

Roll the exposed seam of cream cheese in bread crumbs and place seam side up on a baking sheet covered with a sheet of parchment paper.

Bake the stuffed pods for 15-20 minutes. Serve warm.

Shelter building, for fun and for practice, A lesson to learn from.

One of the things I like to do with my family when we're camping is to take the kids out and build a rough shelter. Whether it is a lean-to, a debris hut, or even a simple tarp tent, we all get together and build a nice livable shelter from whatever we have available.
It has been a couple years now and now it has become a tradition when we hit the woods or when we go camping for an extended stay in the forest. My Son and Daughter are excited to get out and see what kind of materials are available and what kind of shelter can be cobbled together. The most fun is when we get to use the shelter for an overnight stay or even as a place to nap while day camping.

Teaching our kids to be able to do things on their own through hard work and earned skills is a tradition that has been left by the wayside by for far too many generations. It isn't just about survival and it isn't about teaching bushcraft... It is about preparing our future generations to be hard working, and to enjoy the results of a hard task done well. Teach them to take pride in their work and to enjoy the quality of what they make for themselves.

Every day you spend with your children is a lesson you have taught them.

Teach them well.

Emergency Supplies - When and where you might need them.

When considering the availability of supplies after any kind of disaster you need to realize several factors. 

1) What do you have stored in your home?

2) Do you have supplies stored at a retreat location?
3) How many supplies can you effectively transport in a bug out situation?

During a disaster of any kind, you never know which locations or which areas will be affected. An associate of mine, that contracts with his rural fire dept., was recently called in to help with a fully involved facility fire. Unfortunately, the building in question was the BOL of some poor unfortunate chap who literally lost everything. This could easily become a discussion about how to safely store fuel and other things, but that is another post for another day.

Just think... You invest heavily in a BOL only to lose it all in a freak accident, then something occurs where you must abandon your primary location. You have nothing left and nowhere to go.

Even if you are able to load quite a bit of your at-home supplies into a vehicle, there is no way to guarantee that you can get them to where you need them. Roads can be clogged, washed out, or heavily patrolled by a hostile force. With a bug out bag on your back, and who knows what else you will have to try to carry, its not remotely realistic to get out of Dodge carrying your pantry on your back.

A series of Survival caches placed in key locations en route to your BOL, or even en route to a very remote rural camp site where you can set up and attempt to subsist could be the difference between making it and... not making it.

Even if the Bug out Vehicle proves to be reliable, Militant check points or highway piracy may deprive you of any number of things. Hurricane Katrina is a good learning tool. There were National guard soldiers stopping evacuees and scavengers on the streets and confiscating firearms (and doing much worse things by many reports). Even going so far as conducting house to house sweeps and seizing firearms, leaving people defenseless against looters, rapists and all manner of human filth.

A survival cache can be tailored to fit nearly any need. A rifle with ammo in a PVC pipe with several pouches of Mountain House, some toilet paper and several packages of batteries and some fire making and water purifying supplies can mean you make it through the chaos.