Food Security for the Faint of Heart (eBook)

Robin Wheeler (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
192 Seiten
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-55092-384-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This is a book of strategies and lifestyle shifts for householders wanting a well rounded view of what food security means and how to get closer to obtaining it. Includes earthquake preparedness, networking, stockpiling, and buying on a budget.

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Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world. There are books you merely read. There are books you read, recommend to others and pass along. Then there are those books you read, lay aside, jump to your feet, throw your hands in the air, and holler, "e;Yes!!"e; Food Security for the Faint of Heart is one of the latter. Robin Wheeler has managed to extract logic from hysteria, package it with a strong environmental perspective, an abundance of practical suggestions and enough good humour to make this a must-have for every soul interested in surviving whatever natural disaster comes along. Wheeler wastes no time in addressing the central theme of her book: Anything can happen so you better be prepared--and here's how. In her impressive list of "e;Good Things to Have in an Emergency"e;, she catalogues essential items, including lesser touted items such as cooking oil and salt. If Wheeler has done anything by writing this book, she's pulled thr proverbial rug from under our feet when it ocmes to excuses for not eating well through any disaster. Reviewed by Linda Wegner, Country LIfe in BC Where would you find your groceries if your supermarket's shelves were suddenly empty? The threat of earthquakes, trucker strikes, power outages, or a global market collapse makes us vulnerable like never before. With spiraling fuel prices and unstable world economies, individuals and communities are demanding more control over their food supply. Food Security for the Faint of Heart is designed to gently ease readers into a more empowered place so that shocks to our food supply can be handled confidently. As well as acquiring new skills and ideas, there are other compelling reasons to get better prepared. The local economy gains support and encouragement to expand, in turn boosting food's taste and nutritional value, along with the health of people and ecosystems. Community support helps low-income families eat higher quality food, and the preparation provides a psychological edge in an emergency. Chapters are devoted to useful, transferable skills, including: Preserving garden food Saving freezer food during a power outage Managing through an earthquake Preparing quick herbal medicinals Foraging for wild food A humorous treatment of a sometimes threatening topic, this book will appeal to both long-time food security advocates and newcomers to the topic who are wary of it all and would prefer to avoid it. Robin Wheeler teaches traditional skills, sustenance gardening, and medicinals at Edible Landscapes (www.ediblelandscapes.ca), a nursery and teaching garden in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. She is also the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart (New Catalyst Books).

Autor

lt;p> Robin Wheeler teaches traditional skills, sustenance gardening and medicinals at Edible Landscapes (www.ediblelandscapes.ca), a nursery and teaching garden in Roberts Creek, B.C. She is the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ten Reasons to Be Food Secure

1 The Real Thing — EARTHQUAKE!
The Real Thing
Time to Take Stock
List of Good Things to Have in an Emergency
Tiny Packets of Big Stuff
Order of “Certain Death” for Items in Your Freezer
Triage for Fridge and Freezer
Your Refrigerator
Some Like it Cold (And They'd Better Because That's All They're Going to Get)
Ways and Means of Getting it Hot
Eating Quick-Cook Foods
Essay: A Few of My Favorite (Survivalist) Things
Goals
Resources

2 Stockpiling
Men Will Come with Guns and Take Your Food
Women Will Come with Food and Take Your Guns
Stockpiling Tips
Shopping Once a Year
Things to Do

3 Buying Organic on a Budget
Really Cheap Food on Sale Now!!
Several Methods for Eating on a Budget
Make Your Own
Things to Try
Resources

4 Getting Symbiotic with Your Garden
Observational Skills: What's That All About?
Where to Start?
That Little Timing Thing
Map of Garden Food Availability
Use Space Well
Getting There From Here
Resources

5 Maximizing the Harvest
Carefully Choose What you Put in Your Garden
Use Space Well
Learn to Eat What is Already in Your Garden
Use Low-Tech to Stretch Your Season
Don't Waste a Thing
Tips
Resources

6 Storing the Garden Abundance
(Top Ten Techniques)
Technique #1 – Leave it Where it Lay
Technique #2 – Simple Storage
Technique #3 – Dehydrating
Technique #4 – Canning and Pressure Canning
Technique #5 – Packing in Sugar
Technique #6 – Packing in Vinegar
Technique #7 – Packing in Salt
Technique #8 – Brining
Technique #9 – Packing in Oil
Technique #10 – Freezing
Getting There From Here
Resources

7 Just a Cup of Tea for Me or Hot Bevies From a Cool Garden
In the Garden
In the Woods
Growing Herbs for Tea...er, Tisane
Field Study (literally!!)
Resources

8 Please Don't Eat the Daisies (Without a Good Dressing)
The Food, it Was Just Hiding There
An Extremely Compressed List of Edible Flowers
Drying Flowers for Winter
Goals
Resources

9 Gardener With a Suitcase
Compromise #1 – Garden Somewhere Else
Compromise #2 – Garden With What You Have
Compromise #3 – Garden Really Fast
Compromise #4 – Make Transient Gardening the Trend it Should Be
Things to Do
Resources

10 Into the Wild
Opening the Front Door
Roots and Shoots
Seeds
Greens
Berries
Fruits
Weird-looking Bits
Mushrooms
Things to Try and Do
Resources

11 By the Sea—We Shall See What's on the Seashore (and Then We'll Eat It)
Eating Oceanside Foods
Resources

12 The 18 Minute Medic: Quick Medicine at Your Door
Cross-Reference Guide
Resources

13 Water
Water Collection Should Be Part of Our Lives
Learn to Clean Your Water
Things to Do
Resources

14 I'm Too Busy Watching "Survivor" to Live Through a Food Crisis!
The Ten-Minute Planner
Resources

15 Working Cooperatively
Sharing Shapes and Forms
Learning from Sentient Beings

16 Choosing Your Future and Feeling Your Big Muscles
Resources

17 Pulling It All Together
Creating Short- and Long-term Goals for Food Security in Your House

Index
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2009
• Verlagsort: Gabriola Island
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: buying organic on budget • Food preservation • food security and emergency preparedness • manual for food security • maximizing harvest • stockpiling • storing garden abundance • survival and prepping • ten reasons for food security • Water • working cooperatively
• ISBN-10: 1-55092-384-6 / 1550923846
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55092-384-1 / 9781550923841