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SURVIVAL FOODS YOU CAN GROW РОTАТОES SWEET POTATOES JERUSALEM ARTI OKES Hi-yield, remarkably protein rich, can handle poor soil, Taste much better homegrown and come in a rainbow of colors, cool-weather crop but doesn't like freezing. High in nutrition and produc- tivity. Greens are edible raw or cooked. Can handle low rainfall, outcompetes many weeds, most varieties require a longer front-free season. Contains high calories and is a great source of biomass It is very easy to grow and is perennial. DID YOU KNOW? DID YOU KNOW? Potatoes were the first veggies grown in space! Some people get horrible gas from Jerusalen artichokes because of BONUS Perennial in warm climates, exce- llent edible ground cover resem- an inability to digest inulin, the main sugar in their tubers! bling ivy. GRAIN CORN WINTER SQUASH BEANS Storeable and a lot tougher than Very storable, hence the name "winter squash". Warm-season crop with moderate input simple corona grain mill is enough requirements. Can be grown on a hill over buried manure, Can be eaten pods and all, or dry, or green and shelled from the pods. Pole varieties are sweet corn varieties. Will usually yield under adverse conditions. A more productive than bush, but requiere more infrastructure and have for making grits and meal. carcasses or other DID YOU KNOW? Corn kernels come in white, red, high-nitrogen organic waste. longer picking periods. BONUS Hubbard squash will usually last 27 weeks or more in storage. Seminole pumpkins have survived for to a year! BONUS purple, black, green, yellow, and many other colores! Beans fix nitrogen and improve the soil for crops that follow them! CASSAVA CABBAGE GARLIC Excellent survival crop, since roots can be pulled when needed after they're large enough. High in carboydrate calories. No set time for harvest. High in vitamin C, contains anti-cancers agents, heads will store for quite a while after cutting under good conditions, will bolt or fail to High calorie source, excellent seasoning and very good when mixed into sauerkraut. Also stores well. DID YOU KNOW? During WWII, garlic was used to disinfect wounds! set heads in warm weather. DID YOU KNOW? Cassava is high in cyanide until BONUS Plowing cabbage leaves into soil reduces nematode populations! cooked. SURVIVAL MASTERY Source: survival-mastery.com