I mean the scenario of a serious collapse of civilization with the use of nuclear weapons.

I wonder what is best grown from vegetables and what is not? For example, what about potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers? I want to understand how to feed myself and other people, even if there are crop failures, droughts, bad soil, soil depletion, or something else. I doubt that forests will always be able to provide food, they will only be a good addition, but you should not expect stable food from them, as I managed to see, besides, I am planing to survive not alone, but with a group.

As for the location, since after the collapse, hungry crowds will rob villages and farms that they can reach or know about, I will have to build a house from scratch somewhere a hundred kilometers from cities and civilization, Although maybe I’ll be lucky to find an abandoned house? and plow the land and so on, and unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to prepare everything in advance, and I’ve never grown vegetables before and don’t know how difficult it is in the long run, especially as it used to be, without tractors and other things, but only with the help of a hoe and hard work.

I’m also wondering what healing skills I should know? Will basic first aid skills be enough, or should I write down or memorize how to deal with severe food poisoning, serious illnesses caused by exhaustion or parasites, etc.?

In general, if it is not difficult for you, please tell me where I can get the necessary and verified information without wasting extra time on videos or articles on YouTube, especially if they are edited or completely made with the help of AI including also articles? I don’t trust AI generated content, the authors of which I don’t know if they check the reliability of the information or if they check for five minutes or a maximum of half an hour, believing that everything seems logical and can be posted on the network.

I’m sorry that the post sounds so strange or perhaps paranoid, it’s just that there are so many things to talk about that I decided to cut it down somehow.

  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I think it’s cool that you like to plan/practice for survival situations, and I think I can give some pointers:

    Regarding “water tight container”, I was thinking primarily for carrying water (e.g. bottles). You’re probably going to want at least 4.5 L of water capacity unless water is very abundant where you are.

    Regarding tools: I would say your no. 1 priority is a good, big, slightly heavy multipurpose knife. Basically, something small enough to clean a fish, but big and heavy enough to cut down a tree. My personal favourite is one of these.

    In general I think my major tip regarding all kinds of gear (especially clothes) is that you want to minimise the number of pieces of kit you’re carrying. You don’t need several pairs of shoes, you don’t need shorts, etc. to be perfectly clear: I have ONE set of kit that I use from +30 C to - 30 C. There is not a single piece of kit that I carry in summer which I don’t also carry in winter. So, some starters:

    • If it’s not either wool or an outermost (shell) layer, you don’t need it.
    • Your shell layer has one job: To keep the elements (water + wind) out. Its job is not to keep you warm. A jacket that you can only use in winter, because it’s too warm in summer, is not a jacket you need.
    • Always think in layers. If it gets colder, add more. If it gets warmer, remove some. You should not be carrying one sweater for + 10 C, and another for - 10 C, you should instead be carrying an innermost layer for 20 C, and 2-3 progressively thicker layers that you add on top as the temperature drops.

    So basically, any idea of “summer clothes” (in the sense I assume you mean) can probably go straight away. Wool socks, a thin wool t-shirt, and a pair of hard-shell trousers with good air openings are summer clothes, they just happen to also be winter clothes when combined with other layers.

    I think my best tip to get a feel for this is to pack a kit with everything you think you need, then try to hike maybe 20 km / day for a day or two with that kit. My bet is that your kit will be halved (at least) after the first couple attempts, as you notice how much weight you can cut out.

    Finally, I would say that the single piece of kit I have with the highest weight/utility ratio (besides a knife) is possibly my sleeping mat. A good sleeping mat is the difference between feeling alive or not after a night outside, and it weighs next to nothing for what it’s worth.