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Skills for Survival: How Families Can Prepare

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, extracting present-day solutions from pioneer 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-prep books you have, you definitely need this one!

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    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

    1. Family Independence
    2. Home-produced Products
    3. Let’s Be Healthy
    4. 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

     

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