[permaculture] The Permaculture saying, "Prepare for Disaster" and the mo...

Ned Charpentier ned at orangenova.com
Wed Oct 5 02:26:13 EDT 2011


thank you, very informative.

Ned


On 10/3/2011 10:34 PM, DGilsen at aol.com wrote:
> one easy way to preserve food is a cup of food grade diatomaceous
> earth(check health food stores) not pool supply places.  Sprinkle one  cup of
> diatomaceous earth over a 5 gal bucket of dried food  peas,wheat, beans, rice
> almost any thing that is dried then hammer the lid  on the bucket.  Word of
> advice however,  Plastic buckets even food  grade buckets get old and fragile
> and will fall apart over time metal paint  cans or metal five gallon cans with
> lids will work better .    Another way to store things is in glass
> containers with metal lids. rodents will  chew through plastic lids in a heart beat
> if the even suspect there might be  food in them, I can vouch to that.  You
> can eat diatomaceous earth with out  any problem, yea it is a little gritty
> you can wash it off the dried food  prior to coking if it bothers you.
>
> Another thing that works to debug your dried food is dry Ice.  fill  your
> bucket with whatever you are trying to preserve to about two inches from  the
> top,  Then place about six to eight oz of dry ice in the top of the
> container and put the lid on loosely .  Soon you will hear a hissing  coming from
> the container,  as you tighten up the lid you will hear a more  furious
> hissing let it sit it will take a while and hour or so and then you  will hear
> the hissing diminishes and get softer and softer finally when it  is only a
> soft hiss tighten the lid the hissing is the heavy co 2 forcing  the air out
> of the container.  the food will keep much longer in an oxygen  free
> atmosphere.  As for bay leaves, well yea bugs don't like the smell of  bay but if
> that is the only food to eat is bay flavored well they hold their  noises and
> wolf it down.
>
> Oils have a short shelf life.  Olive oil seems to last about 15 years  if
> you can keep it cool and in a dark environment.  light shortens  oils life
> span a lot get oils in glass containers with METAL  tops  store honey in Glass
> and pit plastic under the metal lids as honey  will corrode the tops of
> metal lids.
>
> A years supply of bare essential foods are as follows
>   400 pounds of grains wheat corn oatmeal Regular( not quick)rice   and pasta
> 60 pounds of legumes including dry beans, split peas lentils etc.
> 16 pounds of powdered milk
> 10 quarts of  (16 ponds of  shortening equals 10 quarts of  oil.
> 60 pounds of sugar or honey (67pounds of honey equal 60 pounds of  sugar)
> 8 pounds of salt
> one gallon of water per day per person just for drinking not cooking or
> washing
> I did not recommend spices, that is for your tastes, store in cans not
> clear bottles as light and heat degrades them. If you only have clear  glass or
> plastic containers wrap them in tinfoil to protect them from  light .
> I hope this helps
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