The Best 14 Survival Foods To Grow After SHTF

You can store as much food as you can but eventually, it will run out or worst case scenario a disaster will destroy everything you have worked hard to store and prepare and leave you with nothing but your life. This is why learning how to grow and find food is one of the most important skills in a survival situation.

Growing Your Survival Garden

One of the best ways to get a good food source in a survival situation is by growing your own food. This will give you the ability to prepare for hard times, be self-sufficient, and have the choice to add high-quality nutritious food to your diet and food storage.

Having a survival garden is the best and easiest way to grow food efficiently for your survival. It doesn’t matter if you have a big or small yard, small plot, or even just pots or containers you will still be able to grow your food effectively and be self-sufficient with the right knowledge.

Gardening is also a great way to relieve the stress brought about by emergency situation or disasters by giving you a feeling of accomplishment when your plants grow. It will greatly improve you and your family’s survival morale because it’s rewarding, therapeutic, and satisfying.

The Best Survival Food to Grow

The best survival foods to grow would be the ones that are easy to grow and has the right nutritional balance, caloric viability for survival purposes, and long-term storage capabilities. Foods that are heavy on calories like potatoes, sweet potatoes, sunflowers (for their seeds), root crops, and dry beans are good examples of survival crops and if you have a larger space for gardening you can also add wheat, corn, and oats which can be stored for years if done correctly. Here is a list of easy to grow vegetables for survival situations:

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are one of the easiest foods to grow as long as there is sunlight and water. You can choose from a variety of tomatoes depending on what type you like. You can also preserve tomatoes for later consumption which is ideal for survival.

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Pole Beans

This is one of the easiest vegetables to grow and can produce nearly twice as many beans as bush beans. Pole beans are sweeter and tenderer and they provide great nutritional value which is very important in a survival situation. Pole beans are also good for the soil as they provide nitrogen to the ground making it easier to plant other crops.

Zucchini

Also known as summer squash, this is a great survival food to grow because it is very easy to grow and full of nutrients. This is one of the most common vegetables that grow in gardens.

Onion

Very ideal for your survival garden as it is the easiest food to grow and can be stored and preserved for later consumption.

Here are more examples of survival seeds that you can plant in your survival garden in different weathers. These seeds have high yield quantity, very easy to grow, and has a high nutritional content which makes them very ideal survival crops:

Barley

One of the ideal grains to plant in your survival garden as it has loads of health benefits and a variety of uses such as grinding the grains for flour, feeding livestock, and for making beer. Barley is also very high in manganese and dietary fiber.

Beans

Beans are a good source of fiber, calcium, Vitamins A, C, and K and are very easy to grow making it one of the best survival crops.

Broccoli

This is also one of the easiest vegetables to grow and is recommended for a survival garden because it has the tendency to give yields past its first harvest giving you more food for storage. Broccoli is also a good source of nutrients needed for survival diet as it is rich in protein, vitamins A, and K.

Carrot

This is a very easy vegetable grow but prefers cooler weather and should be grown in the fall-winter, and early spring. It is a good source of beta-carotene and Vitamin A which is essential for your survival nutrition.

Cauliflower

This vegetable has a high head yield which is very good for your food storage. It is also a good source of vitamins C and K and is rich in dietary fiber.

Corn

Corn is a very good source of proteins, iron, and calcium. This is an ideal survival crop as it can produce two ears per stalk giving you a higher yield compared to other crops. This is a warm weather crop sop and it is good to plant it in the summertime.

Cucumber

This is one of the ideal survival crops as with continuous picking of this crop increases its production. They are also a good source of vitamin A, C, K and potassium which are very good for a survival diet.

Eggplant

A very good survival vegetable as it is very versatile to cook with. This crop is a very good source of vitamins B1 and B6 and is high in fiber and antioxidants. Eggplants are also warm weather crops and should be planted after the last frost.

Lettuce

This plant grows quickly and one of the earliest crops to harvest plus it is the easiest vegetable to grow and its harvest can be extended making it an awesome crop for your survival garden. Lettuce is packed with iron, calcium, and essential vitamins and nutrients like vitamins A, B6, C, and k.

Radish

An ideal crop to plant in a survival garden as it is very easy to grow and very tolerant of weather conditions. Radishes are also rich in Vitamin B6, vitamin C, iron, and dietary fiber.

Here is a list of low, moderate, and high -calorie crops that can be grown from seeds in case you want to add them to your emergency kit:

· FOOD YIELD OF HIGH-CALORIE CROPS (per 8 oz.)

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Peanuts: 1,200 calories

Sunflower seeds: 800 calories

Soybeans: 300 calories

Navy beans, chickpeas: 250 calories

Kidney, lima, and fava beans; black-eyed peas; parsnips: 200 calories

Peas, carrots, turnips, rutabaga: 100 calories

· FOOD YIELD OF MODERATE-CALORIE CROPS (per 8 oz.)

Cantaloupe: 200 calories per whole melon

Cabbage: 200 calories per head

Tomatoes, spinach, broccoli, green beans, collard greens: 50 calories per 8 oz.

· FOOD YIELD OF LOW-CALORIE CROPS

Cauliflower and turnip greens: 34 calories per 8 oz.

Peppers: 30 calories per 8 oz.

Mustard greens: 25 calories per 8 oz.

Cucumbers: 14 calories per 8 oz.

Lettuce: 10 calories per 8 oz.

Celery: 10 calories per stalk

Making your own survival garden is a great way to provide food for you and your family in a survival situation. Having the right knowledge will give you more crop yields and food for your storage. Researching and finding the best plants for you and your family will ensure a wide variety of food choices in a survival situation and will give each person good nutrition and high amount of energy keeping everyone’s spirits up.

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Table Of Contents:
The Most Important Thing
Making Your Own Beverages: Beer to Stronger Stuff
Ginger Beer: Making Soda the Old Fashioned Way
How North American Indians and Early Pioneers Made Pemmican
Spycraft: Military Correspondence During The 1700’s to 1900’s
Wild West Guns for SHTF and a Guide to Rolling Your Own Ammo
How Our Forefathers Built Their Sawmills, Grain Mills, and Stamping Mills
How Our Ancestors Made Herbal Poultice to Heal Their Wounds
What Our Ancestors Were Foraging For? or How to Wildcraft Your Table
How Our Ancestors Navigated Without Using a GPS System
How Our Forefathers Made Knives
How Our Forefathers Made Snowshoes for Survival
How North California Native Americans Built Their Semi-subterranean Roundhouses
Our Ancestors’Guide to Root Cellars
Good Old Fashioned Cooking on an Open Flame
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Preserve Water
Learning from Our Ancestors How to Take Care of Our Hygiene When There Isn’t Anything to Buy
How and Why I Prefer to Make Soap with Modern Ingredients
Temporarily Installing a Wood-Burning Stove during Emergencies
Making Traditional and Survival Bark Bread…….
Trapping in Winter for Beaver and Muskrat Just like Our Forefathers Did
How to Make a Smokehouse and Smoke Fish
Survival Lessons From The Donner Party
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