FOOD STORAGE

Food is the core of every preparedness plan. When a crisis hits, stores empty out instantly. Supply trucks stop moving. People panic and buy everything they can. If you already have food at home, you are not part of the chaos. You are calm, fed, and in control. That is the power of a real food storage plan.

The Most Important Foods To Store
The best foods for long term storage are simple. White rice, beans, pasta, and oats. These foods last a long time, they are cheap, and they give you the calories you need to survive. Add in canned foods like tuna, chicken, soups, sauces, and vegetables. Canned food lasts for years and can be eaten right out of the can if you lose power.

How Many Calories You Need
An adult needs about two thousand calories a day. Children need less but they still need consistent meals. If you have a family, calculate how much food you need per person. This turns prepping from guessing into a real plan. When you know your numbers, you know exactly how long your pantry can keep you alive.

How To Build A Three Month And Six Month Plan
Start with one week of food. Then stretch it to two weeks. Once you hit one month, you are ahead of most people. From there, keep adding. Three months of food feels like a real safety net. Six months makes you almost untouchable in any crisis. You do not need to buy everything at once. Buy a little every week. Stay consistent and your supply will grow faster than you think.

Dehydrating Food
Dehydrating food is one of the easiest ways to preserve it. You can dehydrate fruits, vegetables, herbs, and even cooked meals. You can use an oven or a dehydrator. Most dehydrated foods last about three to five years when stored correctly. They save space and give you more options when fresh food disappears.

Freeze Drying
Freeze drying is the highest level of food preservation. Freeze dried foods can last twenty five to thirty years. All you need is hot water to bring them back to life. If you ever want to invest in a freeze dryer, Harvest Right is the option most people go with. Freeze dried meals give you decades of peace of mind.

Canning Your Own Foods
Canning lets you store your own meats, vegetables, soups, and sauces. There are two types of canning. Water bath canning works for high acid foods like fruits, jams, and tomatoes. Pressure canning is for low acid foods like meats, beans, and most vegetables. Pressure canning is more serious but once you learn it, you can preserve almost anything.

Water Glassing Eggs
If you have fresh, unwashed eggs, you can store them long term using water glassing. You submerge the eggs in a solution of pickling lime and water. When it is done right, eggs can last up to eighteen months. This gives you long term protein without needing a fridge.

Mylar Bags And Oxygen Absorbers
Mylar bags with oxygen absorbers are a powerful way to store dry foods. You can store rice, beans, oats, pasta, flour, and more. When sealed properly, these foods can last years or even decades. Mylar bags protect your food from air, moisture, and insects. This is how preppers build long term backups that stay hidden and safe.

Avoiding Common Mistakes
The biggest mistake people make is buying too much variety. Focus on the basics first. The second mistake is not rotating food. Eat what you store and store what you eat. The third mistake is poor storage. Keep food in a cool and dry place. Avoid storing food in hot garages or next to heaters.

Food storage is not about luxury. It is about survival and stability. When you have food in your home, every emergency becomes easier to face. This is the heart of preparedness. Everything else builds around it.

Bat species make up 21% of all mammals.

Earth is home to a staggering number of creatures: By one estimate, more than 8.7 million species of plants and animals live on its lands and in its waters. Mammals, however, make up a small fraction of that number — just 6,495 species. If you’re wondering which warm-blooded animals are most numerous, glance to the night sky. That’s where you’ll probably find bats, which account for 21% of all the mammals in the world.

The bat family boasts amazing diversity. The tiny bumblebee bat (only about an inch big) is the world’s smallest mammal, while the flying fox bat has a 5-foot wingspan. Scientists classify these mostly nocturnal creatures into two categories: microbats and megabats. Microbats are generally smaller, nighttime flyers that rely on echolocation to hunt insects, whereas megabats are often much larger, and some of them hunt in the daytime. Megabats primarily live in the tropics, where they use their larger eyes and better olfactory senses in place of echolocation to locate fruit for their meals.

Bats have been around for more than 50 million years, which helps explain why they’re such a fine-tuned part of our ecosystem. Nectar-eating bats are master pollinators of more than 500 plant species (including cacao for chocolate and agave for tequila), thanks to their ability to fly and transport pollen further than bees. They’re also nature’s bug zappers, keeping mosquito, moth, and beetle populations in check. The flying insect hunters are so effective — eating half their body weight in bugs each night — that scientists credit them with saving U.S. farmers $1 billion in pesticides and crop damage each year. Bats even help combat deforestation by dropping seeds over barren areas: Bat-dropped seeds can account for up to 95% of regrowth in cleared forests in tropical areas, a huge accomplishment for such small creatures.


Vampire bats create close friendships.
Vampire bats are at best feared and at worst maligned as sinister predators, but chiropterologists (scientists who study bats) believe Desmodus rotundus are actually incredibly social animals that survive thanks to their selective, long-term friendships. Vampire bats, which live in Mexico, Central America, and South America, have genetic mutations that separate them from their fruit- and bug-eating brethren, affecting how they taste and digest their food. They only survive on blood (usually from livestock and birds), and consume nearly 1.4 times their body weight per meal to get the nutrients they need. But blood isn’t always readily available, which puts vampire bats at risk of starvation, especially since they must eat every 48 hours or so. Researchers think this could be why these flying mammals have learned to share food with family members, regurgitating the substance in a manner similar to how birds feed their young. But vampire bats will also help roost-mates they have close, nonfamilial relationships with — and those bats remember and return the favor, creating a long-term bond that increases both animals’ odds of survival. Researchers say watching these high-flying friendships develop can help us better understand how other social species (like humans) bond, too.

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Buzzing to Help the Environment This Earth Day? Turn Your Attention to the Bees.

If you haven’t been noticing many bees in your backyard recently, you’re not alone: 2025 has been a tough year for the pollinators. Commercial beekeepers reported colony losses around 60% this year, and experts estimate hundreds of millions of bees have died in the U.S. since August.
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“I’ve never seen anything like this — not the amount of losses,” Tom Babcock, a representative for the Maryland State Beekeepers Association, told WBOC. Why exactly is still unknown, with some researchers pointing to changing weather patterns, pests, and poor nutrition as reasons. But what’s certain is that although this is a large-scale problem, there are still many things we can all do on our balconies and in our backyards to help the humble heroes that pollinate 75% of U.S. fruits, vegetables, and nuts.
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With Earth Day upon us, now is the perfect time to look after the busy buzzers in both big and small ways. The Department of Agriculture recommends planting native plants, avoiding (or eliminating) pesticides, and spreading the word.