Part 15 of our Survival Gardening series deals with Potatoes. Be sure to visit our new online message boards at www.survivalandpreparedness.com Our sponsor’s website- www.jrhenterprises.com 18 years in the preparedness industry! This is our 7th-8th attempt at uploading. Changing file formats, trying different programs, etc. Please bare with us while we work through this stuff. It hasn’t been “easy” to put up videos for us for quite some time.
Are you prepared for an emergency, such as a disruption in utilities or quarantine? How would you cook and wash yourself, what would you drink? Watch as we evaluate our emergency preparedness, as we live in our house for five days without electricity and water from our taps.
More information is available at “The Survival Summary” survivalsummary.wordpress.com Using the Inventory Droid software on my Droid phone to keep track of our food storage. This software package costs .99. I modified the software a bit through the settings feature. I am only tracking Quantity, UPC codes, Reorder Quantity, Calories Per Serving, Servings Per Container & Ounces. When you scan a bar code it will search the internet for the information on the scanned product. It will give you options whether it has been scanned before. The previous scanned option allow you to increase or decrease the quantity. This option gives you a quick way to keep up on inventory levels. It allows you to set categories for each product. The new Reorder field I setup allow me to export the data to excel and filter the products that we are short of and take the print out to the store. The calories per serving and servings per container lets me export to excel and calculate how many calories we have on hand. This allows us to know how long our storage food will last us. It took us 4 days (8-12 hours) to scan our 2 years worth of survival storage food into the system.
Meet the Wolverine. My answer to the Tom Brown Tracker and the Woodman’s Pal. Both are very nice tools, but cost too much. Since making this video I’ve purchased a Cold Steel Barong Machete. It’s way better than the Wolverine. The Wolverine was fun to make though. So I bought a parang machete, cut the handle off to bring the blade to just over 9″, added a finger groove for finer work, and added my own wood handle. The result is a machorty (short machete), that is lighter, safer and more nimble than a full size machete. The sheath is made from 55 gallon food grade barrel plastic. I riveted it together and added some velcro and a pouch. The pouch holds a fire striker, a Gerber Clutch multi tool and a Speedy carbide sharpener. The knife has tested very well, and I’m very pleased with the design. It will most likely replace my hatchet. Stay tuned for more videos in the future of me using the Wolverine.
