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Food Security for the Faint of Heart: Keeping Your Larder Full in Lean Times Paperback – September 1, 2008
Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world.
There are books you merely read. There are books you read, recommend to others and pass along. Then there are those books you read, lay aside, jump to your feet, throw your hands in the air, and holler, "Yes!!" Food Security for the Faint of Heart is one of the latter.
Robin Wheeler has managed to extract logic from hysteria, package it with a strong environmental perspective, an abundance of practical suggestions and enough good humour to make this a must-have for every soul interested in surviving whatever natural disaster comes along.
Wheeler wastes no time in addressing the central theme of her book: Anything can happen so you better be prepared--and here's how. In her impressive list of "Good Things to Have in an Emergency", she catalogues essential items, including lesser touted items such as cooking oil and salt.
If Wheeler has done anything by writing this book, she's pulled thr proverbial rug from under our feet when it ocmes to excuses for not eating well through any disaster.
― Reviewed by Linda Wegner, Country LIfe in BC
Where would you find your groceries if your supermarket’s shelves were suddenly empty? The threat of earthquakes, trucker strikes, power outages, or a global market collapse makes us vulnerable like never before. With spiraling fuel prices and unstable world economies, individuals and communities are demanding more control over their food supply.
Food Security for the Faint of Heart is designed to gently ease readers into a more empowered place so that shocks to our food supply can be handled confidently. As well as acquiring new skills and ideas, there are other compelling reasons to get better prepared. The local economy gains support and encouragement to expand, in turn boosting food’s taste and nutritional value, along with the health of people and ecosystems. Community support helps low-income families eat higher quality food, and the preparation provides a psychological edge in an emergency.
Chapters are devoted to useful, transferable skills, including:
- Preserving garden food
- Saving freezer food during a power outage
- Managing through an earthquake
- Preparing quick herbal medicinals
- Foraging for wild food
A humorous treatment of a sometimes threatening topic, this book will appeal to both long-time food security advocates and newcomers to the topic who are wary of it all and would prefer to avoid it.
Robin Wheeler teaches traditional skills, sustenance gardening, and medicinals at Edible Landscapes (www.ediblelandscapes.ca), a nursery and teaching garden in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. She is also the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart (New Catalyst Books).
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherNew Society Publishers
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2008
- Dimensions6 x 0.38 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100865716242
- ISBN-13978-0865716247
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"If any book was ever published at the right moment, it's this one. Rising food prices — and in more and more parts of the world rising food scarcity — trigger our most primal fears. Robin Wheeler's book will calm you down, and make your eating life simultaneously cheaper, healthier, and more elegant."
— Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy
"This is a terrific book, warmly written, funny and smart. Not only do I want to read her gardening book but I immediately found myself fantasizing about hanging out with the author and trading recipes and gardening tricks, that doesn't happen so terribly often — I'm impressed. I really recommend the book, and I'll put it in the food storage section of my store once it is out."
— Sharon Astyk, author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front and blogger, www.sharonastyk.com
"Robin Wheeler has compiled a terrific resource manual for both rural and urban people concerned with food security and emergency preparedness. Food Security For the Faint of Heart is a well researched, informative, and humorous book that will teach and entertain at the same time. It is filled with easy to follow instructions, checklists and stories. I know I will be referencing this book often."
— Bill Elsner, Emergency Planner
Review
"If any book was ever published at the right moment, it's this one. Rising food prices ― and in more and more parts of the world rising food scarcity ― trigger our most primal fears. Robin Wheeler's book will calm you down, and make your eating life simultaneously cheaper, healthier, and more elegant."
― Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy
"This is a terrific book, warmly written, funny and smart. Not only do I want to read her gardening book but I immediately found myself fantasizing about hanging out with the author and trading recipes and gardening tricks, that doesn't happen so terribly often ― I'm impressed. I really recommend the book, and I'll put it in the food storage section of my store once it is out."
― Sharon Astyk, author of Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front and blogger, www.sharonastyk.com
"Robin Wheeler has compiled a terrific resource manual for both rural and urban people concerned with food security and emergency preparedness. Food Security For the Faint of Heart is a well researched, informative, and humorous book that will teach and entertain at the same time. It is filled with easy to follow instructions, checklists and stories. I know I will be referencing this book often."
― Bill Elsner, Emergency Planner
Book Description
Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world.
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Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world.
This is a terrific book, warmly written, funny and smart. I'm impressed. I really recommend ―the book, and I'll put it in the food storage section of my store once it is out.
― Sharon Astyk
Where would you find your groceries if your supermarket's shelves were suddenly empty? The threat of earthquakes, trucker strikes, power outages or a global market collapse make us vulnerable like never before. With spiralling fuel prices and unstable world economies, individuals and communities are demanding more control over their food supply.
Food Security for the Faint of Heart is designed to gently ease readers into a more empowered place so that shocks to our food supply can be handled confidently. As well as acquiring new skills and ideas, there are other compelling reasons to get better prepared. The local economy gains support and encouragement to expand, in turn boosting the taste and nutritional value of food, along with the health of people and ecosystems. Community support helps low-income families eat higher quality food, and the preparation provides a psychological edge in an emergency. Chapters are devoted to useful, transferable skills, including:
- Preserving garden food
- Saving freezer food during a power outage
- Managing through an earthquake
- Preparing quick herbal medicinals
- Foraging for wild food.
Humorous and practical, Food Security for the Faint at Heart will appeal to both long-time food security advocates, as well as to newcomers to the topic who are looking for a ten minute survival plan!
... a terrific resource manual for both rural and urban people concerned with food security and emergency preparedness. It is filled with easy to follow instructions, checklists and stories. I know I will be referencing this book often.
― Bill Elsner, Emergency Planner
Robin Wheeler teaches traditional skills, sustenance gardening and medicinals at Edible Landscapes (www.ediblelandscapes.ca), a nursery and teaching garden in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. She is also the author of Gardening for the Faint of Heart .
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- Publisher : New Society Publishers (September 1, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0865716242
- ISBN-13 : 978-0865716247
- Item Weight : 11.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.38 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,239,636 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #519 in Canadian Politics
- #1,148 in Disaster Relief (Books)
- #1,193 in City Planning & Urban Development
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The world is too full of easily hysterical people who panic when the rain falls. Buy this book and avoid the herds of people who only remember AFTER the hurricane is sighted that they must, right now, this minutes, go to the store and buy water.
When even the government is telling folks that they need to be able to manage for a few weeks (or months) in times of crisis - this is a great book to start walking you through the process of preparing. Preparing for what?
Life.
And this book proves it doesn't have to be any more dramatic than that.
This is not just a book about storing emergency food, but a book of suggestions on how to take control of your food supply, eat healthier and have some peace of mind...and maybe even have a little fun doing it. She makes you want to try some of her suggestions.
She presents several interesting recipes, written in a happy-go-lucky way that makes you believe you can't fail. I intend to try her Potato-Leek soup...but I might just use scallions instead of Leeks! What the heck.
I recommend this book highly.