What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. We're back and we are going to expand upon yesterday's episode growing for the apocalypse or the challenge that I'm doing in May.

So the first thing I wanted to figure out for myself was you know what are some of the best foods

to grow if you really did have to live off of your own food what would those foods

be so ideally there's you know there's a lot of things to consider here of course but there are some

principles that I've kind of come up with or come up with via my research that I

think make sense so one of the first things that you're going to want to think about is the heartiness

level of your food, how easy it is to preserve, how easy it is to store, and then of course you're going to want to

think about the quality of that food. What are you growing from a nutrient

perspective or from a calorie perspective that makes sense for you to actually

live off of? So probably one of the most obvious ones you might be thinking about right now would be beans.

They're really high in protein, they're high in vitamins, minerals, they're also relatively high in calories as well.

So you have your energy requirements, but you also have a decent amount of your

nutrient requirements as well and then on top of that you can eat them fresh

let's say you have way too many to preserve you can eat some of those fresh and

then preserve the rest or dry the rest but you can also of course store them.

They have a really really long shelf life and then on top of that you can use them in a bunch of

different ways and then finally as a gardener they're a nitrogen fixer right so they are

also improving your soil at the very same time so beans are probably one of the

better crops that you're going to be able to grow if you were really trying to grow to live off of the land.

Next you've got corn.

Corn is an interesting one because you might not think, oh that that's what I should grow I should grow

corn well Native Americans grew grain corn which was traditionally grown and then

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