Description
by Esther Dickey
Skills for Survival: How Families Can Prepare provides a different approach to emergency food availability, giving in-depth gardening and shelter information not commonly found elsewhere. The author goes back to pioneer survival techniques, dealing solutions from situations when there were no modern conveniences such as electricity, piped-in water, air conditioners, etc. Her chapters deal with situations such as coping with extreme weather conditions, insect control, warding off frost, grinding grains, recognizing poisonous plants, preventing contamination and spoilage, keeping grains and other foods cool and dry, making health aids, nutrition requirements when food is scarce, even directions for birthing a baby. No matter what other emergency books you have, you definitely need this one!
Chapters:
Part 1: A Changed Way of Life
- Family Independence
- Home-produced Products
- Let’s Be Healthy
- Emergency Preparedness
Part 2: Better Home Gardens
5.Where to Plant Food Crops when You Think There’s No Place to Plant
6. Working with the Soil
7. Important Plants
8. Extending Your Harvest Season
9. Growing Vegetables in a Drought
10. Unusual Plants and Planting Ideas
11. How to Be a Plant Doctor
Part 3: More About the Best Foods
12. Choosing and Preparing the Best Foods
13. Recipes
14. Frugal Ways with Food
15. Cooking and Preserving Food
16. Don’t Let It Spoil
17. Special Section
18. Observations of People, Plants and Living Things