tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269312480342488000.post2857175931631705556..comments2022-04-21T13:27:20.915-07:00Comments on Plans, Hopes, and a Better Future: Surviving the Urban ForestChainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08983871548225807191noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269312480342488000.post-43618308175651049012011-12-04T04:51:29.516-08:002011-12-04T04:51:29.516-08:00We have feral pigs tearing up the ground and garde...We have feral pigs tearing up the ground and gardens over here in Mississippi. There is not a bounty on them yet, but there should be. Feral pigs are breeding with Russian wild boar and producing really large hogs. I'd have to use a deer rifle on the hogs that occasionally roam my property. <br /><br />Wouldn't mind catching a couple of wild pigs (about twenty to forty pounds) and feeding them corn and fresh vegetables for a month or so after de-worming them. Makes the meat taste much better. Salt the meat real heavy and I'd have enough pork to go through a mild winter with.Chainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08983871548225807191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269312480342488000.post-16324067688118802512011-12-03T19:21:04.212-08:002011-12-03T19:21:04.212-08:00I'm afraid we don't have deer around in th...I'm afraid we don't have deer around in the desert. At best, we have large boar-like creatures called javalinas. Some brave souls actually hunt them with spears. I use a crossbow on occasion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269312480342488000.post-42933420822647036842011-12-03T18:07:59.823-08:002011-12-03T18:07:59.823-08:00I've lived off the land and it's a tough w...I've lived off the land and it's a tough way to live. Meat is the hardest thing to come by. Animals get wary and go nocturnal quickly when their forest mates start disappearing a little faster than normal. <br /><br />Learning how to preserve food is the best course you can take from a homesteading course. Drying, salting, and canning will help your food stores last a long time and get you through rough winters. Even nomadic folks can hunt off International Paper company land here in Mississippi after buying a relatively cheap permit. Some people join deer camps and live on site for several months. You can hunt, gather, and prep the food for storage while living in camp.<br /><br />Once you start practicing the basic of survival skills, you can build on them to include smoking meats to make them last longer, caching goods underground or in hollow trees, and trapping. You have to get out there and do it. It's not easy, but it beats starving to death. It will give you confidence knowing that you can survive in the woods if push comes to homelessness.Chainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08983871548225807191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6269312480342488000.post-21971167350939395932011-12-03T17:04:35.457-08:002011-12-03T17:04:35.457-08:00Can you gather enough edible plants and critters t...Can you gather enough edible plants and critters to eat off of the land? I find that just a bit surprising today. It seems as if all of the good land is on private property. Seems like a tough way to earn one's grub - trapping, fishing, and hunting. Have you lived this way? What's the furthest you can go?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com