Mini farms

[morgawr]

Worm farms are very popular now, they take up little space and have many benefits, firstly you can keep adding fresh stocks to your garden to improve soil and aerate the plants root's, if you have chickens you can feed them protein rich snacks, fantastic for the health of your birds and the quality of eggs you get and you got an endless supply of fishing bait, always a winner for me and if the SHTF you can also feed them to your family, High Quality organic Protein Worms, it might not be pleasant meal but it will keep you alive even healthy.

and then there's the

Snail Farm, another rich source of Protein, to some people great eating and an easy way to have organic fresh meat at hand.
Both theses methods cost nothing to keep going, your leftover veg and fruit is all that's needed.

I have not tried these's yet, but in the next few wks I will be in my new house and I will be having a snail Farm and a Worm Farm, I got no problems with eating snails, I love sea food, how different can Snails be, but because I have made this post I will have to try eating my own Home Made Organic Worms, I will have to experiment a bit, but by mid summer I should be able to update you on my findings.

There must be similar mini farms that can be used, any idea's let me know.

[Steveo82]

, I love sea food, how different can Snails be,

There was a African giant land snail farm near us. I had seen them as pets before but never considered eating them. Anyways after a quick tour we popped into the farm house for a taste,coffee and chat.
I love seafood, winkles, whelks, razor fish etc etc most commercial shellfish. The snails I tried were produced for the European market and about 50% of adult size. Taste wise they taste nothing like any seafood I have tried and couple that with the textures of the flesh I won't be eating them again. I'll try anything once but wish I had given them a miss
If you are producing the snails as a protein supply have you considered insects, rabbits, fish or birds

[morgawr]

I think I could eat insects and have thought of a cricket farm, my love of birds would mean I could only cull them as a life or death food choice but I'm fine with eating eggs from my quail, ducks and hens, Iv'e never killed a rabbit and some of the ways I have seen it done is not for me, but again if it's me or my family the rabbits had it and the birds. but with my new lifestyle fast approaching and looking to spend as little money as possible on shopping anything might happen. my biggest problem will be knowing what veg to grow to get the most year round.

[Scablifter]

I have been experimenting with a mini farm for a while now, I think the results speak for themselves.


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[morgawr]

genius, laughter has got to be on the prepper list.

[lonewolf]

chickens and rabbits would be on my list, take up very little room.

[ForgeCorvus]

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[preppingsu]

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[twilight_shadow]

I have been partially involved with bugs as human food for the last few years, and I think it is something that future generations will have to countenance as part of their everyday nutritional intake once the developing world decides that its own land is for the use of its indigenous peoples rather than us in the West.

The question therefore remains with us, in the Western world, as to whether we can possibly EAT bugs as part of our daily diet. Yes, bugs would have been eaten in past European ages but we have to equate the past with the modern perception of foodstuff in the western world today. My best bet is that within 10 years we end up adding crushed or pulverised bugs with burgers and breads. You probably wouldn't notice much of a difference from the burgers that you buy now.

In regions of Africa (Nigeria is one), they have been researching mixing powdered 'lake flies' with flour to produce 'fortified' breads... providing meat proteins that the poorest people cannot buy for themselves... and that scenario could be extended across many cultures... including our own in times of desperation... or social breakdown.

The UN FAO has regular publications on bugs as food, and last year I contributed an asked-for snippet myself to one of their bug publications. The names to watch out for, as in Googling about edible bugs, are Patrick Durst in the SE Asia / (UN FAO) Thailand area, and Professors Marcel Dicke and Arnold van Huis. These last two guys are at the forefront of promoting bug eating and brilliant at presenting bug eating to Western audiences.

[Devonian]

I have been partially involved with bugs as human food for the last few years, and I think it is something that future generations will have to countenance as part of their everyday nutritional intake once the developing world decides that its own land is for the use of its indigenous peoples rather than us in the West.

The question therefore remains with us, in the Western world, as to whether we can possibly EAT bugs as part of our daily diet. Yes, bugs would have been eaten in past European ages but we have to equate the past with the modern perception of foodstuff in the western world today. My best bet is that within 10 years we end up adding crushed or pulverised bugs with burgers and breads. You probably wouldn't notice much of a difference from the burgers that you buy now.

In regions of Africa (Nigeria is one), they have been researching mixing powdered 'lake flies' with flour to produce 'fortified' breads... providing meat proteins that the poorest people cannot buy for themselves... and that scenario could be extended across many cultures... including our own in times of desperation... or social breakdown.

The UN FAO has regular publications on bugs as food, and last year I contributed an asked-for snippet myself to one of their bug publications. The names to watch out for, as in Googling about edible bugs, are Patrick Durst in the SE Asia / (UN FAO) Thailand area, and Professors Marcel Dicke and Arnold van Huis. These last two guys are at the forefront of promoting bug eating and brilliant at presenting bug eating to Western audiences.

No I don't believe that will happen - GM Crops all the way