Potatoes, the perfect self sufficiency and survival crop

Potatoes are just about the perfect survival crop.

the potato is fairly easy to grow they store very well and potatoes are very nutrtious (potatoes are high in vitamin C and potassium) Potatoes can be cooked in many ways such as roasted, mashed, sliced and fried or deep fried, boiled or baked or roasted in a fire, potatoes can even be used as the base for a alcohol (vodka).

The potato will g...row just about everywhere, produces a tremendous amount of food for the labor and space involved and is easily disguised as something non edible to most non rural people.

The Irish before the famine lived largely on a small plot of potatoes, some cabbage and the milk from a cow they grazed beside the roadside verge and maybe a pig or two. The mistake made by the Irish was to grow only one variety of potato, so when the blight hit the entire potato crop died off.

With hundreds of potential varieties of potatoes to plant, potatoes have tremendous genetic varieability and are some of the most important food crop we can plant for self sufficiency.

There are early varieties of potatoes to harvest as early as late spring to mid or late summer, just wait till the flowers open fully then use your potato fork to lift the potato plant and ease your treasure of tubors from the ground.

The main crop of potatoes will produce your heaviest crop. Wait till the plant tops have turned brown and died down completely then fork the potatoes up, let them dry and then take the tubors into storage.

An acre of potatoes on well tended ground, can produce as much as 40 tons of potatoes per acre, that is a lot of spuds folks.

You can store your potatoes in root cellars, just don't let them freeze, or put them in clamps. A clamp is made by selecting a dry corner of your garden, cover it with straw, pile the potatoes, then cover them with straw, then bury the straw under 6- 8 inches of dirt then cover with straw or leaves. This will keep your potatoes all through the winter.

The whole purpose behind survivalism is to protect your live and the lives and property of your family and friends in a disaster and emergency

The mission of the survival group  " Great Lakes Survivalist and Preppers Haven"  is fivefold: 

First)

We will act to preserve, and of course grow the group, so that it can continue to perform it's protective missions;

 Second)

We will protect and defend the members of the group, our groups dependents, retainers and other close family and and associates in any disaster, emergency or other situation, working to ensure as a mutual protection organization that we as a group and as individuals are taken care of particularly the civilian dependents;

Third)

The group will work to provide security and to protect the lives and property and means of survival and recovery in the area of the groups operation from destruction, removal, captivity or seizure by any outside force;

Fourth)

We will provide assistance to include organized security to help any legitimate lawful government seeking to protect the lives, property and liberty of our community and the means of survival and recovery in a disaster as our resources allow as to be determined by the council assembled.

Fivth)

we will assist all persons individuals families and communities or groups seeking in a ethical way to preserve the lives, liberty, property and means of survival and recovery from disaster, collapse or emergency and help by education etc all such individuals, families and groups in their survival and emergency preperations by providing quality information on means equipment, tactics and strategies for survival, survivalist, self reliance, self sufficiency, homesteading, gardening, farming, firearms, emergency preperations for disasters, and worse including "grid down" end of the rule of law, TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) situations.
This is the reason we are working on developing this group, to help achieve a wider area of prepared peoples able to deal on a individual family and group or community level with disaster and emergency of any kind.

We will do this by providing information on safety, personal and group survival, survivalism, emergency preperation, self sufficiency, homesteading and all aspects of surviving hard times and worse, up to and including being able to protect oneself from a total collapse called TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It) and the collapse of social order and law and order known as the end of the rule of law.  We will be providing tips on surviving anything life throws at you, from simple job loss to economic collapse, or even worse. We  are scouring the Net looking for the best survival & emergency preparedness information, articles and supplies and equipment for you and your survival group.

The Great Lakes Survivalist and Preppers Haven is also a  place to network and share knowledge with other survivalists, folks preparing to deal with emergencies and homesteaders whether they are rural, urban, soon-to-be, or wanna-be with a emphasis in the Upper Midwest of North America, in Canada and The Unites d States, Great Lakes Basin, and Ohio River Watershed. A Sampling of topics include: gardening, canning, dehydrating, beekeeping, farm animals, simple living, self-sufficiency, soapmaking, survival, survivalist, survival retreat, security, storing food, self sufficient living, cheesemaking, spinning, sewing, herbs, edible flowers, wild foods, permaculture, baking from scratch, hand powered machines, greenhouses, log cabins, composting, vermicomposting... and more.
By doing this we can help our society as well as ourselves stand a much better chance of surviving a disaster, emergency and or collapse.