I Lived Off Of Gardening, Fishing, Foraging, and Bartering for 30 Days. Here's How It Went
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Thomas
Tip regarding small fish (where I come from there is no size limit on pan fish like blue gills) - eat them bone in. This is best either deep fried or on the grill, most opt for deep fried and the fins turn into a potato-chip like edible when deep fried. But, if you just remove the guts like you would with say, a trout, you will get a lot more nutrition. The bones can be a pain but there is an art to eating them.
I know I can always catch bait sized blue gills, etc - but I can never count on quantity or size. Remember to scale them first, you don't want to eat those. The skin is very tasty despite the scaling process which I recommend you do with a simple spoon and outdoors, lol.
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Tip regarding small fish (where I come from there is no size limit on pan fish like blue gills) - eat them bone in. This is best either deep fried or on the grill, most opt for deep fried and the fins turn into a potato-chip like edible when deep fried. But, if you just remove the guts like you would with say, a trout, you will get a lot more nutrition. The bones can be a pain but there is an art to eating them.
I know I can always catch bait sized blue gills, etc - but I can never count on quantity or size. Remember to scale them first, you don't want to eat those. The skin is very tasty despite the scaling process which I recommend you do with a simple spoon and outdoors, lol.
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Karee
21: 51 This part right here really (the whole barter process entirety, too, but specifically this timestamp) emphasizes how important it is to have community. No matter how small, if one person each has a specialty in their home or garden that they can barter, everyone in the community will thrive no matter where you live. It's good for everyone to know how to forage and garden and fish and hunt, BUT if each person is slightly better at one aspect than the others, you will never lack, and in times of hardship, the community is there to pull you back up.
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21: 51 This part right here really (the whole barter process entirety, too, but specifically this timestamp) emphasizes how important it is to have community. No matter how small, if one person each has a specialty in their home or garden that they can barter, everyone in the community will thrive no matter where you live. It's good for everyone to know how to forage and garden and fish and hunt, BUT if each person is slightly better at one aspect than the others, you will never lack, and in times of hardship, the community is there to pull you back up.
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Terry
I enjoyed this so much! Very relevant now. I really have started spending more time in the garden the last two years and was able to grow enough fresh veggies for me and some friends. I shared what I had and then others gave me what they had in their gardens. Obvious holes were meat, fish and dairy. Thank goodness the stores were open. Another thought, it doesnt hurt to connect with beekeepers, find out goat milk sources and learn how to make cooking oils. As you said it takes a village and we dont know what is around the corner
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I enjoyed this so much! Very relevant now. I really have started spending more time in the garden the last two years and was able to grow enough fresh veggies for me and some friends. I shared what I had and then others gave me what they had in their gardens. Obvious holes were meat, fish and dairy. Thank goodness the stores were open. Another thought, it doesnt hurt to connect with beekeepers, find out goat milk sources and learn how to make cooking oils. As you said it takes a village and we dont know what is around the corner
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Jjjj
This is why it's great to live near carob trees. a carob bean has calories like nothing else. It's like growing chocolate bars. Even if they take 70 years to bear well, plant carob trees for future people and animals. They make great street trees on wide streets. Personally, I don't want to survive the apocalypse, so I'll have a nice suburban food forest for someone else to forage from.
Eggs will keep good almost indefinitely in limewater. Whole washed eggs and limewater in a jar, in a cool dry cupboard.
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This is why it's great to live near carob trees. a carob bean has calories like nothing else. It's like growing chocolate bars. Even if they take 70 years to bear well, plant carob trees for future people and animals. They make great street trees on wide streets. Personally, I don't want to survive the apocalypse, so I'll have a nice suburban food forest for someone else to forage from.
Eggs will keep good almost indefinitely in limewater. Whole washed eggs and limewater in a jar, in a cool dry cupboard.
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3 eggs is something like 800 mg of cholesterol. Happy heart attack
Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
Victor W. Zhong, PhD1; Linda Van Horn, PhD1; Marilyn C. Cornelis, PhD1; et al
Study Links Eggs to Higher Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease
Rating 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol a dayor less than that of two egg yolkswas associated with a 17% higher risk of cardiovascular disease
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3 eggs is something like 800 mg of cholesterol. Happy heart attack
Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
Victor W. Zhong, PhD1; Linda Van Horn, PhD1; Marilyn C. Cornelis, PhD1; et al
Study Links Eggs to Higher Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease
Rating 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol a dayor less than that of two egg yolkswas associated with a 17% higher risk of cardiovascular disease
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Joshua
I'm physics not biology, but from what I understand, lean mass increases the amount of calories your body needs, so if you drastically lower your intake the body will consume lean mass first in order to lower your daily requirement and keep you alive for longer. I'd expect that once your requirement is down enough the body will start to burn more fat for energy and may even build back some muscle if it has the headroom.
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I'm physics not biology, but from what I understand, lean mass increases the amount of calories your body needs, so if you drastically lower your intake the body will consume lean mass first in order to lower your daily requirement and keep you alive for longer. I'd expect that once your requirement is down enough the body will start to burn more fat for energy and may even build back some muscle if it has the headroom.
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Jacqueline
You really hit on a topic that resonates with me. I'm helping put together a community food forest in my county, and I'm beginning to forge a career as a permaculture designer and educator, so the aspect of community really struck me in this video. My goal is to show people what is possible, and the abundance you all shared is exactly the kind of experience I would love to see become commonplace in our society.
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You really hit on a topic that resonates with me. I'm helping put together a community food forest in my county, and I'm beginning to forge a career as a permaculture designer and educator, so the aspect of community really struck me in this video. My goal is to show people what is possible, and the abundance you all shared is exactly the kind of experience I would love to see become commonplace in our society.
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Irene
I feel like it would be very unrealistic that it would be this easy to barter/find food outside of the home during the apocalypse. I actually think unless you actually prep for this kind of thing its super unrealistic to prep for 3 months beforehand. I think it would be more realistic to just start one day and use everything you have in your house and not do anything outside of the home with trading etc.
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I feel like it would be very unrealistic that it would be this easy to barter/find food outside of the home during the apocalypse. I actually think unless you actually prep for this kind of thing its super unrealistic to prep for 3 months beforehand. I think it would be more realistic to just start one day and use everything you have in your house and not do anything outside of the home with trading etc.
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A1BASE
That fallingfruit resource is a nice idea, but I don't like that there are a bunch of links to trees / plants that are on private property. I've had issues with people taking fruit from our trees because they assume it's 'free'. (Although we're not on that particular database. Just because it's in front of a house without a fence around it doesn't mean it's fair game for harvesting / foraging.
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That fallingfruit resource is a nice idea, but I don't like that there are a bunch of links to trees / plants that are on private property. I've had issues with people taking fruit from our trees because they assume it's 'free'. (Although we're not on that particular database. Just because it's in front of a house without a fence around it doesn't mean it's fair game for harvesting / foraging.
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Roger
My wife grew up on a dairy farm in Arkansas. Her family was pretty self sufficient. They did buy sugar, flour, corn meal, coffee and tea. Her mother did know how to grind corn and wheat if she had to. She also knew how to forage for wild food which they did that a lot. I feel that my wife could survive if she had to because of what she learned from her family. She still does these things.
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My wife grew up on a dairy farm in Arkansas. Her family was pretty self sufficient. They did buy sugar, flour, corn meal, coffee and tea. Her mother did know how to grind corn and wheat if she had to. She also knew how to forage for wild food which they did that a lot. I feel that my wife could survive if she had to because of what she learned from her family. She still does these things.
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Keith
Being a good trapper can sometimes be better than being a good hunter in stuff like this. Those live box style traps could be effective and not draw as much attention in a way in urban environments. Neighbors might think you just have a critter problem. You don't have to kill the animal right away. If it's alive it won't rot. You can render animal fat for cooking.
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Being a good trapper can sometimes be better than being a good hunter in stuff like this. Those live box style traps could be effective and not draw as much attention in a way in urban environments. Neighbors might think you just have a critter problem. You don't have to kill the animal right away. If it's alive it won't rot. You can render animal fat for cooking.
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aslandus
That apocalypse potluck really puts into perspective how important holiday feasts would've been for people before supermarkets were a thing. Most of the time, you'd be eating what you could get or trade for, but a few times a year you could get together with friends and family and really enjoy a bountiful variety of foods you might not normally have access to.
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That apocalypse potluck really puts into perspective how important holiday feasts would've been for people before supermarkets were a thing. Most of the time, you'd be eating what you could get or trade for, but a few times a year you could get together with friends and family and really enjoy a bountiful variety of foods you might not normally have access to.
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Icklflic
I know you did this a couple of years ago so this is not particularly helpful to you now, but dock seed is a great food source (and grows all over hell and back, and ditto crab grass grain. Both of these seeds/grains are fast to harvest and dramatically minimize caloric expenditure while offering lots and lots of nutrient dense food.
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I know you did this a couple of years ago so this is not particularly helpful to you now, but dock seed is a great food source (and grows all over hell and back, and ditto crab grass grain. Both of these seeds/grains are fast to harvest and dramatically minimize caloric expenditure while offering lots and lots of nutrient dense food.
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Brenda
Interesting. Not what I would have done, but, you made it through. Good to have a barter community. Knowing what you know now, I'd like to see you try it without your friends. Foraging on your own, bartering with only strangers, and. no internet. it's an apocalypse, there is no internet, and, your friends are now zombies.
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Interesting. Not what I would have done, but, you made it through. Good to have a barter community. Knowing what you know now, I'd like to see you try it without your friends. Foraging on your own, bartering with only strangers, and. no internet. it's an apocalypse, there is no internet, and, your friends are now zombies.
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Christina
Love this video as we enter this spring with a goal to feed our family of 7 with what we can grow or source from local farms and fishing/crabbing. I consider this our transition year but my hope is to no longer need to purchase any produce for our mostly plant based diet.
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Love this video as we enter this spring with a goal to feed our family of 7 with what we can grow or source from local farms and fishing/crabbing. I consider this our transition year but my hope is to no longer need to purchase any produce for our mostly plant based diet.
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