Start collecting information and buying books on what to forage in your local area and start practicing this summer. There is no guarantee, but you might need it next year even is just a dietary supplement to what you can pick up in the grocery store. Plus even if you don't need it, it's a cool skill to have and there's tons of stuff that you can make that is very useful regardless of whether or not anything bad happens.
There are plenty of weeds that are super nutritious and that are kind of ridiculous to call weeds considering the amount of nutrition that's available in them.
For example, wild chamomile grows through the cracks in sidewalks. I wouldn't eat or make tea from chamomile that was growing anywhere near where vehicles are running or were people might have polluted, but I bring it up to prove a point.
Book recommendations:
- the Boreal herbal
- food plants of the interior first Peoples
- edible and medicinal plants of Canada
- wild berries of Ontario
- wild edible mushrooms of Ontario
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You mean dandelion. And yes it’s quite nutritious. I have dandelion every day!
Dandelion a good liver tonic as well. Smaller leaves are more tender. Flowers are edible too.
I didn’t know you could eat the flower. I assume the stalk is off bounds.
No the whole thing is edible. Even the root.
Okay but what can you add to an open wound to stop it bleeding?
How do you get aspirin when there's no more left in the store?
What do you use as an antiseptic when there's no more antiseptic available?
It's not just about food.
Who said plants alone? I didn't, you did.
I said to start learning what you can gather and what you can make of it because it's an important survival skill.
What diatribe are you talking about. Who are you arguing with?
It sounds like you've already started learning. So I'll ask a better question.
If you were going chopping firewood with your grandson in 30 years and you got a deep cut that was bleeding badly, what would you use to stop the bleeding and how would you dress the would to prevent infection?
I don't know if it's the best answer, but with what's available in my area, I'd put yarrow powder on the wound to stop the bleeding then I'd use plantain to help keep it sterile and help dress it.
What would you do? What would you pass on to your grandson, skills wise, to help him survive in a world where he literally cannot prep like you did? What would you do and what would you teach your family if the collapse is permanent?