Kudzu, pineneedle tea, Rabbits, and a pressure cooker

357maxm · 01-16-2008, 07:18 PM

For most of my life, I have read on and experienced survival/homesteading methods. I remember my grandfather teaching how to build figure-four traps, snare, etc.. So you could say I have been learning survival skills all my life.

When I look back at my grandparents and how they ate, I can now say they are survivors superior. They ate about every mammal and edible plant in the south. So... long story short. Here are four things from many they taught me about survival eating:

1. Kudzu is very good and high in vitamins.
2. pine needle tea is very high in vitamin C
3. Grow Rabbits - very high in protein
4. A good pressure cooker is a life saver. IT will kill all the bad stuff

plus: Sweet potatoes are a excellent and good for you

Does anyone have anymore tips?

damage855 · 01-16-2008, 08:50 PM

Chickens gives you both eggs and meat I have never paid for eggs but often by chicken meat because I dont have that many anyway.

Johnnycat · 01-20-2008, 10:48 AM

I think a good stand of kudzu would be better to feed you livestock than eat yourself.

I'm not saying I wouldn't in a survival situation, but I'd rather feed it to the pigs and make bacon, feed it to the goats and make goat cheese, and feed it to the sheep and make a wool sweater!

e3mrk · 12-11-2008, 01:28 PM

You must be in the Carolina s,Their covered in Kudzu.
It was imported from Japan as a cheap way to feed Sheep and it just grew like wildfire.
I have seen kudzu jams and jellies but thats as far as I would go with it.

Big Dog · 12-11-2008, 03:46 PM

Florida has made a pretty good effort in eradicating "The Vine That Ate The South". I don't see nearly as much of the stuff as twenty years ago. At one time, they were trying to get sheep to eat it, but they'd eat it only if NOTHING else was available!
Maybe it could be used for Biomass Conversion, to make Biodiesel?

01-16-2008, 07:18 PM	#1
357maxm Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 37	Kudzu, pineneedle tea, Rabbits, and a pressure cooker For most of my life, I have read on and experienced survival/homesteading methods. I remember my grandfather teaching how to build figure-four traps, snare, etc.. So you could say I have been learning survival skills all my life. When I look back at my grandparents and how they ate, I can now say they are survivors superior. They ate about every mammal and edible plant in the south. So... long story short. Here are four things from many they taught me about survival eating: 1. Kudzu is very good and high in vitamins. 2. pine needle tea is very high in vitamin C 3. Grow Rabbits - very high in protein 4. A good pressure cooker is a life saver. IT will kill all the bad stuff plus: Sweet potatoes are a excellent and good for you Does anyone have anymore tips?

01-16-2008, 08:50 PM	#2
damage855 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 951 Blog Entries: 1	Chickens gives you both eggs and meat I have never paid for eggs but often by chicken meat because I dont have that many anyway. __________________ If total goverment control will make us all safer, then why are prisons so dangerous?

01-20-2008, 10:48 AM	#3
Johnnycat Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Tupelo, MS Posts: 289	I think a good stand of kudzu would be better to feed you livestock than eat yourself. I'm not saying I wouldn't in a survival situation, but I'd rather feed it to the pigs and make bacon, feed it to the goats and make goat cheese, and feed it to the sheep and make a wool sweater! __________________ Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

12-11-2008, 03:46 PM	#5
Big Dog Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 10,642	Florida has made a pretty good effort in eradicating "The Vine That Ate The South". I don't see nearly as much of the stuff as twenty years ago. At one time, they were trying to get sheep to eat it, but they'd eat it only if NOTHING else was available! Maybe it could be used for Biomass Conversion, to make Biodiesel? __________________ Moderator of: AR15/M16, M14/M1A, New/Beginning Shooters and Militaria/Collectables.

12-11-2008, 01:28 PM	#4
e3mrk Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 31	You must be in the Carolina s,Their covered in Kudzu. It was imported from Japan as a cheap way to feed Sheep and it just grew like wildfire. I have seen kudzu jams and jellies but thats as far as I would go with it.