Inside VFS

If you are passionate about emergency preparedness, then you know how important long shelf life foods can be. You understand that when all other short-term food spoils, and when the grocery stores’ shelves are empty, you will need to rely solely on the food with the longest shelf life.

Before the dawn of grocery stores and supermarkets, humans hunted and gathered food from the natural world around them. In doing so, they understood animal migratory patterns and possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of the edible and medicinal plants surrounding them. 

Knowing how to desalinate water is not a useless survival trick. On the contrary, it’s an important skill that should be a part of your survival preparedness repertoire, along with your knowledge and ability to purify water in survival scenarios.

There may come a time when you need to bug out of the city and leave your home behind. In this case, you may need to build a survival shelter to keep yourself warm or stay dry in rainy weather. For that reason, using bushcraft knowledge to create primitive survival shelters is a skill set every practical prepper should possess.

In a survival situation, you have to assess your surroundings and deal with the most immediate problem first. For example, if the weather is worsening, it’s time to construct a shelter or build a fire. On the other hand, if the weather is agreeable, but you are low on potable water, then it’s time to collect more water.

On a day-to-day basis, most of us are fortunate enough not to have to ask ourselves, “how many calories do I need to survive?” However, suppose a natural disaster strikes or civil unrest breaks out, and SHTF. You may be forced into a survival situation, where you become more concerned about the minimum calories per day you need to survive.

Survival in the aftermath of a natural disaster, economic collapse, nuclear warfare, or civil unrest can be challenging. It requires a host of survival skills you would otherwise not need to utilize in our modern world. 

There are many ways to prepare for a disaster. But for most of us, preparing for an emergency or natural disaster involves preparing drinking water for when the municipal water source becomes unreliable and survival food buckets for when food shortages strike our grocery stores.

At Valley Food Storage, we want every American to beprepping for events like natural disasters, civil unrest, wars, and anything in between. That is why we provide our customers withlong-term food storage buckets that have a shelf life of 25 years. However, we believe that every family, alongside their other food storage, should have easy access to healthy, organic, and fresh foods. This is why we are going to explore how to build a survival garden. Survivalist gardening will help supplement your regular food storage and ensure you always have the freshest fruits and vegetables on hand. 

Building and maintaining a garden is essential for preppers. Fresh vegetables and fruits provide you with nutrients and minerals that can enhance your long term food storage even more. Having a garden is a great way to supplement your food supply. These types of gardens are often called victory gardens or war gardens, because they are often planted during wartime in order to increase a household’s food storage. With growing tensions between the United States and Russia, these types of gardens may start to become more prevalent in America.