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Information Necromancy
Back in the mists of antiquity, there were these things called books and they were good. And in these books were esoteric things called references. With these a person could learn more detailed information on many topics. Ah, heck, what I'm saying is that there is gold in them-thar libraries. Case in point:
Some people are old enough to remember when survivalists worried about nuclear war(anyone who grew up during the Cuban Missle Crisis!) and the books from then were geared toward that issue.
Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearney was very sought after for it's solid research. Among it's references is a paper on feeding folks after a nuclear war. At the time, I had to order a copy from the Feds and some bugger walked off with it a year or two later. Well, today I got to thinking about that paper and pulled up a copy of NWSS online to see if it was still around.
http://www.survivalring.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Maintaining-Nutritional-Adequacy-During-A-Prolonged-Food-Crisis.pdf
And it was. Free, downloadable, printable. It's about using available resources to feed a devastated country using expedient means. There's info on fireless cooking, filtering water, sprouting, and various nutritious ways of keeping a countrywide population fed. Is this useless because it came out in 1979? I wonder what other goodies are lurking in those older books, what do you think?
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Sep 11 2011, 12:25 PM EDT by
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Growing food/storing food.
Theres an error on this page, where it says use canned foods within a year.
many canned foods have use-by dates of many years, and a lot of canned foodstuffs can be used several dozens of years later. of course dry foods are also very good..
rergarding livestock, it is much more efficient to eat the vegetables that you would use to raise livestock. i love meat as much as anyone but unless you had plenty of crops to spare, using it to feed animals isn't a good idea.
a field would be ideal, but you could also grow in an urban setting.
if i had a lot of people, id get a large building such as a school/office block for example, with a large roof and make it secure.. also more room indoors. a school will have a fenced-off perimiter already, but barricaded windows +further/extended perimeters would be preferable.
I'd use the roof to grow as many different crops as i could, if neccessary and if i had means to generate power, hook up the apropriate lighting to feed the plants if they were struggling. also some kind of pump to water would be needed, or a lot of labour.
most fruit + veg seeds can be found in garden centres, as can soil. failing that just dig up as much soft soily earth as you can find. you could use a whole range of stuff to as fertillizer
also a roof could be a permenant post for a lookout, an early warning for a perimeter breach.
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Apr 24 2010, 4:39 PM EDT by
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Eat zombies?
I'm sure its been asked before and will be asked again. Can you eat a zombie? Assuming you bag yourself a recently deceased, not a rotten zombie, can you boil the zombie meat enough, or smoke it to be zombie jerky? Understanding this would be a dangerous process, and even the slightest bit of uncooked zombie meat could make your want to eat your buddies. But I would assume you'd ingest just as much zombie blood-mist if you were beating one with a bat.... maybe I should invest in painter's masks
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Mar 3 2010, 1:57 AM EST by
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z-day
nice! but maby add some charts on how long some plants take to fully grow.
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Jan 12 2010, 7:20 PM EST by
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Garden of Doom
What about the zombie-plants?!
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Nov 22 2009, 1:02 PM EST by
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my garden
i am going to have a garden in my fort that is going to have the basics.... like tomatos, corn, potatoes, weed, etc etc no one bad mouth the weed... were all teammates in an apocalypse here and how can u survive an apocalypse without having fun, u would go insane. also, i have many cow farms nearby and i can take a few for food. also, some chickens are good for food and u can put their **** on ur garden... good bonus...oh right, eggs...heehee. anyways, everyone needs a garden. u cant fight zombies on cold spaggeghtti o's u need some goddamn nutrition!!!
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Oct 22 2009, 9:41 PM EDT by
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Food in an Infected World
This page is a project currently being restructured by Survivor_Gill. Contributions, editing and advice is appreciated and still welcomed. For large additions or major changes please make contact beforehand . Thank you for your understanding. In
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Fruits and Vegetables, A Renewable Food Source
Fruits and vegetables are a great food source for after Z-Day. Because a garden is easily set up, and because it easily maintained, humans have been using farming to acquire fruits and vegetables since they started out on Earth. If your plan include
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Dec 2 2010, 9:54 PM EST by John_234
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