Food

Storage, shelf life, calories per dollar and growing your own.

• "Three Days of Food": Where That Number Comes From and What It Actually Means

  You have heard it in every preparedness pitch: grocery stores hold only three days of food. It's usually deployed to imply that the country is three…

• Growing Medicinal Herbs From Seed: What Each One Needs

  Most medicinal herb guides skip the step that decides whether you get plants at all. It isn't soil, water, or light. It's cold stratification — the…

• What a Quarter Acre Actually Feeds: The Yield Math

  The self-sufficiency conversation runs on pounds. Pounds of tomatoes, pounds of zucchini, a photograph of a full harvest basket. Pounds are the wrong…

• What Actually Lasts 25 Years in Storage, and What Quietly Doesn't

  The twenty five year figure attached to long term food storage is not marketing invention. It comes from real research, it applies to specific foods…