Non-sense living within the grid

Chapter 7: Food Source

As you set up your off from the grid homestead, you will also need to consider other important things to your day-to-day living and one of them is food.

Most people who choose to live off from the ground prefer to grow and harvest their own foods which are usually vegetables and fruits. Indeed, you will need to spend more time in growing your food and the quickest crops would grow in just a few weeks to one month. Usually, 30 days is long enough to go without food. Hence, you have to come up with a way of how you will be able to survive for at least during the first thirty to sixty days.

So what you’re going to consume within 90 days? It is where dry foods and livestock come in. Dry foods like beans, rice, oats and the like are good beginning point while preserved canned goods such as jams, veggies, jellies, smoked meats and dried fruits would last for a while. These goods will give a sufficient supply of foods to eat during your first few months on your homestead.

Livestock like chickens, cows and pigs are known to be good sources of food. The meat gives protein, and you don’t have to harvest it until you can eat it. The only problem is you have to preserve the leftover meat that will require electricity when you need to freeze it.

Here are certain ideas that you may consider when it comes to livestock:

- Turkeys

- Chickens

- Ducks

- Pheasant

- Geese

- Pigs

- Cows

- Rabbits and;

- Fish.