Survival techniques and tools
Good morning The night in the tropics is quite cold I am looking for ingredients to make a stove that will help me keep warm and cook food. Stones abound in shallow stream beds Oh! A large termite nest Nature’s wonderful adhesive… I need to grind them first This will take a lot of effort. The mixture of water and soil from the termite nest will stick and dry Oh! It’s prettier than I thought Now I’m going to make a fire to make it dry faster A heavy rain…
Read Morelet’s try to catch fish for dinner tonight and not fall through the ice haha doesn’t look very safe, but I’ll try my luck anyway and it happens, for three hours the fish never bit on the way I found some bark for the stove the second time didn’t work either, I turned off the camera and you see the result of the third time everything works, it remains to remove the traces of unsuccessful attempts today we plan to put things in order near the dugout, after the construction…
Read MoreHey, I’m Josh Clark, and this is BrainStuff. And this the BrainStuff where I talk to you about survival foraging. So I have bad news everybody. America, and pretty much the rest of humanity, has turned its back on our hunter/gatherer roots. Luckily some people have guarded this ancient wisdom and kept it alive and can pass it along. I am not one of those people. I’m just a host. And for legal reasons, you should not listen to anything I say from this point forward. But there are some…
Read MoreHi, I’m Danny, I’m the head chef Bompas & Parr Today we’re gonna be taking a walk about, green spaces and parks, flooding some hedgerow berries and foraged plants to bring home and make some incredible drinks. Ok, so lets head out and do a bit of foraging, and when we get back, we’re going to use some basic equipment that you will have in your kitchen. And some simple ingredients from your pantry, to make some cordials and brew some teas, from whatever we can find. We here at…
Read MoreHey everybody! Rob Greenfield here and today I am going to teach you how to forage in your own backyard. Or if you don’t have a backyard, your neighbour’s backyard. If they don’t have a backyard, somebody’s backyard. I’m going to introduce you to plants that are growing freely and abundantly all around us. A lot of us think that our food has to come from the grocery store and that we have to buy it. But the truth is, there are thousands of species of foods that are both…
Read MoreFor most of us, our food comes from the supermarket and beyond that we don’t know much about it or the far-off lands that it comes from. Today I am here to help you realize that food is growing freely and abdundantly all around you, you just have to open your eyes and look at the land in a different way. To do that I am going to share 11 easy plants to begin foraging. [music playing] There are 3 main guidelines with the plants that I am going to…
Read Moregood morningthis morning i thought i’d do somethinga little different than my usual in thegarden videoand that is because i’ve actually spentthe majority of this week in the housetrying to preserve as much of theharvest as possible before the frostcomesand i suspect that many of you who aregardeningare preserving a lot of your own food aswell so today i thought i’d share withyou my topthree tools for preserving the harvesti’m going to finish picking these beansfor canning and then let’s head into thehouseso my top three preservation tools in noparticular…
Read MoreHi, I’m Tricia, a California organic gardener. Harvest time is happening!Today I’m going to dehydrate some of my fruits and vegetablesso that I can enjoy them in the upcoming winter months. Many fruits and vegetables dehydrate well. You can use your fruit to create allnatural yummy fruit snacks. Dehydrated garden vegetables areperfect homegrown soup ingredients. Be sure and choose high quality fruit at the peak of ripeness,avoiding dehydrating over-ripe, or under-ripe or damaged fruit or vegetables. If you don’t put good produce in the dehydrator,you’re not going to get good…
Read MoreHello. I’m Kathy Riggs, UtahState University Extensionprofessor for familyand consumer sciences. The question I will answertoday is regarding home foodpreservation safety. After all, home foodpreservation safetyis priority number one. Have you ever asked yourselfthe question, how can Ibe sure the foods Ihave preserved at homeand placed on my storage shelvesare safe for my family to eat?Looking for visible evidenceof spoilage such as mold,a lack of a seal, perhaps thefood is slimy to the touch,or there’s an off color–these are all agreat place to start. However, before you prepareyour next batch…
Read MoreFood doesn’t last. In days, sometimes hours,bread goes moldy,apple slices turn brown,and bacteria multiply in mayonnaise. But you can find all of these foodsout on the shelf at the grocery store,hopefully unspoiled,thanks to preservatives. But what exactly are preservatives?How do they help keep food edibleand are they safe?There are two major factors that causefood to go bad:microbes and oxidation. Microbes like bacteria and fungiinvade foodand feed off its nutrients. Some of these can cause diseases,like listeria and botulism. Others just turn edibles into a smelly,slimy, moldy mess. Meanwhile, oxidation is…
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