Deep storage for prepping supplies should be approached logically to get the most use, for your hard-earned dollar.

in #prepping3 years ago

I got to go to the homestead today for deep storage. Deep storage is a long-term supplies that I'm hoping I don't need. My intention is to have the Garden carry the family.

But these will be good backup:

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Deep storage is emergency survival stuff, and if I have to get into this stuff I need to be very concerned because my plans aren't working well!

But the core of this post, it's the say that it's important to look at all possibilities before you purchase prepping supplies! I bought a lot from this company, because the deals were good; but I do not recommend any single company for prepping supplies. Here's a good example:

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Here we have freeze dried fruit for about $5 an ounce. Freeze dried fruit in an emergency deep storage situation be nice to have! But we want to get it for the best price that's we can.

Here is a much better deal, and I bought it from the dollar store!
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As you can see from the package, this is more like a dollar seventy an ounce. It is also packaged in a Metalized container, so it will last for long term storage. But, for the money for the gallon can; I can buy over 20 oz of freeze dried fruit, instead of just over 6 oz! So these gallon cans are not always the best choice for deep storage. On top of that I'd have 34 individual packets that I could open without affecting the other storage!

So look carefully before you commit hard earned money, and use ut well!

It should be obvious at this point in time with the spending that we have in DC, that's a dollar is done. Within the next six months to a year, or possibly sooner we're going to see inflation take over I run the cost of food up I probably a factor of 10 quickly. So don't neglect your shallow prep! The shallow prep is the food you intend to eat while you're setting up a garden to grow sustainable. You need as much stored food as you can reasonably find before the prices Skyrocket!

Canned goods from the grocery store also good for shallow prepping. Putting away as much as possible, should be looked at as just bulk buying!

Don't forget that family, who will think you're nuts today, will be tapping on your back door, as soon as they get hungry! You will either need to send them away, or you'll need to stock in food for them too. The latter is easier, but much more expensive.

On the plus side, people are prepping, and praying; and that is a powerful combination!

Use your brain to make the best choices for your prepping both deep, sustainable, and shallow, so that you can be as well prepared as possible when the dollar crashes!

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Your dollar store brand is a better deal for sure, but it is also mixed fruit as opposed to just strawberries. Strawberries cost more. Do you truly need a commercial source for dried fruit and vegetables? I have had luck drying my own stuff.

That is just the package I grabbed, the strawberries are the same weight / cost; but I have already moved them to homestead storage. I'll buy some more when they restock.

I am building a freeze dry unit, but my 'fruits' are way out in the future; so stock is difficult, but it will come!

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I hear what you are saying. I started with a hay field 3 years ago and have had to plant every tree and shrub. My best fruit crop is black currants and goji berries. One day...

The important thing is that you have started! Things Always take longer than they should. I can't transplant my fruit trees (cherry and peach) until I finish the well. I tried to move a Hawthorne, but I lost it. I am very close to a lake, and it is sandy soil; and will need bio-char and compost, with water.

My major food growing work, will be aquaponics in a wallipini (half buried greenhouse) that will use ground heat to grow year round. Still too much to do, with the way they are spending, SMH!

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I also need a well and am considering a sandpoint. My land is part sandy clay loam and part sand dune, and extremely dry so a well will help. I am near an alkaline pond, that is really more of a small lake. Despite that, the soil is not too bad or too alkaline.

Exciting the wallipini. I want to build one as well. Thus far I am using cold frames. I grew a nice crop of carrots over winter, but then the frame flooded and the carrots froze! HAH! back to the drawing board.

I plan to lay 6 inch perforated pipe on the ground on the North side, and bury it when I dig the Wallipini. That way, I can use ground heat to warm it in the winter.

I will have to go down 80 feet for water, so I will go 120 feet to be sure! I plan to use water & air in a plastic drill!

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