Ultimate Survival Food preps.

Storing food, is a very useful thing to do,
growing food is also going to be pretty useful if things get bad.

The problem is protecting it. Ok you've got guns and traps, you've been trained by the best of the best, but if you look at the density of population in cities and suburbs even the best armed people will find it hard to stop gangs, or looters as we are talking thousands of people.
Even worse if the police/military or ex police/military turn up then the only choice you have is to let them in and they will find and take all but the best hidden preps you have and you're life if you argue, and who's going to argue with a tank!

Even if you do manage to keep the hordes at bay, you will probably want to start replacing you're food as soon as you start using it, which is means growing stuff hard to do when people are looking for something to eat.

Protecting plants and trees and animals is a lot harder than protecting hidden and stored food.

The secret is to grow food that no-one will know is food.
And it is simple to do.

Trick one.
Grow plants where you can harvest the leaves.
Oranges, tomatoes and strawberries are going to be pretty obvious to any hungry passer by but worse you can only harvest them at certain times of the year, leaves grow all year round in a lot of places.
E,g
Grow a Moringa hedge, Its one of the fastest growing plants and is one of the most nutritional plants in the world.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Nutrients Common food Moringa Leaves
Vitamin A Carrot 1.8 mg 6.8 mg
Calcium Milk 120 mg 440 mg
Potassium Banana 88 mg 259 mg
Protein Yogurt 3.1 g 6.7 g
Vitamin C Orange 30 mg 220 mg

It can be harvested constantly, and it will look just like any other hedge. Who's going to eat a hedge? It looks just like any other hedged in the street.

Put in a pond, fountain, or water feature oh no its been over grown with weeds, pretty understandable in a collapse situation, little does anyone know its growing duckweed or spirulina.

"With over 100 nutrients, Spirulina is often described as the most complete food source in the world. The American National Aeronautical and Space Agency includes it in their astronauts diet and plans to grow Spirulina in it’s space station."

"Duckweed protein has higher concentrations of the essential amino acids, lysine and methionine, than most plant proteins and more closely resembles animal protein in that respect."

Duckweed and Spirulina grow amazingly fast duckweed can double its mass every 24 hours.

The perfect fertilizer for them is urine, so kill two birds with one stone, toilets not working, no problem
for one type waste anyway.

Get a worm farm, as big as possible, worms are great sources of protein and can double every 3 months.
They eat dog poo, cat poo and yes human poo so that takes care of you're other type of waste.
[link to www.allaboutworms.com]

If nothing bad happens you have process get several tonnes of green waste a year thats not going out in the rubbish and it will reward you with one of the best fertilizers around worm castings.

Combine you're worm farm with you're compost heap.
Gross you're compost heap is fly blown and full of maggots, bad news, unless you have carefully catered for the one type of fly you want. The black solider fly, another good source of protein, and it will control the other annoying fly species.
[link to blacksoldierflyblog.com]
You can feed the larvae to the chickens but lets be realistic you're chickens won't last long in a shtf situation, you will be eating the larvae yourself.


All the creeks, drains near where we live are choked with cattail which are awesome source of food, but most people will miss that.
[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Edible root tubers, like edible fern tubers, or if you must grow vegetables grow them so they don't look like vegetable beds, potatoes etc are easily disguised.

Perennials can be grown and when SHTF cut them back so they won't be recognized rather than having a sign say food here.
Asparagus will grow for many years and most won't recognize it cut it back to its root mound, harvest the spears as they come up.


Some more edible plants.
[link to artofmanliness.com]


Some plants for my fellow Australians
[link to www.survival.org.au]

Sure you can grow tomatoes and all the other common vegetables, but its going to be big neon sign say "Hey they got food".

Have a massive beautiful flowering garden, that looks no different to anything else you will see in the suburbs but what most people won't know is that almost all of it is edible.


Best of luck.