Safely Gathered

This is a great blog! safelygathered.blogspot.com

Gardening show on BYU-TV

Hillary told me about this great program on BYU-TV check it out: Homegrown
Thanks so much for the info, Hillary!!!!

Production

Home Production is such an important part of Family Preparedness! I have been re-reading Essentials of Home Production and Storage.

“Produce as much as possible…” (page 1 Essentials…)


Excerpts from page 2:

“Let every Latter-day Saint that has land, produce some valuable, essential foodstuff, thereon and then preserve it; or if he cannot produce an essential foodstuff, let him produce some other kind and exchange it for an essential foodstuff…Let those who have land produce enough extra to help their less fortunate brethren.” (Conf Rep, April 1942, p. 89; Messages of the First Presidency, vol. 6)


“We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasible can on your own property….(Spencer W. Kimball, “Family Preparedness,” Ensign, May 1976 p. 124-25, April 1976 p. 170-71)


“….We will see the day when we will live on what we produce.” (Marion G. Romney, Conf. Rep., April 1975. p. 165)

The 4 Day Experiment

I just finished a 4 day experiment: eating only food storage items. I love my fruits and veggies so I wondered how I was going to fare with out them – especially apples and lettuce. I started some sprouts and wheat grass a few days before so they’d be edible by the time I started my experiment. Found that I love canned ruby red grapefruit but I don’t care for wheat grass. I tried several different ways to eat it…without being able to hide the strong flavor. It really is like eating GRASS! I tried hiding it in a fruit shake but it made the whole shake taste like grass. The best way to get it down was to put some in the blender with a little water and purify it until it was a liquid, then drink it like a shot! My friend, Olivia, suggested putting it in tuna on a sandwich…I’ll have to give that a try. It grows fast! It has grown back to the height it was when I cut it down 2 days ago…I can’t eat it fast enough!!!! AHHHHHHH!

My graham crackers were so old they had gone rancid – good reminder to eat what I store and store what I eat.

I’m collecting some pretty good stories for the Family Preparedness Follies.

Overall I didn’t really miss anything except the apples and lettuce…but it was only 4 days. My alfalfa sprouts did well and were my main green for the days…My favorite food, of course, were the brownies made from storage!

Next experiment will be homemade yogurt from a dried powder start and sunflower seed sprouts and buckwheat groat sprouts.

I’m hoping Jeff and I can make another SLC run sometime soon…love to all. Lynnette

Essentials of Home Production & Storage

My favorite resource right now is the Church publication Essentials of Home Production & Storage. It has simple explanations and lists you can use to assess, gather and check off. My goal this week is to go through this carefully and make sure I’ve done the best I can to do what we’ve been asked to do. The only things I feel need to be added are a “normal packing list” – things you would take if you were going on any kind of trip and a list of cooking equipment needed in case you need to cook without power for a few days or longer – which list I have with my YW camp things. If any of you want copies of the lists I have for either of these please let me know.