Electronic Resources

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C.1 INFORMATION SOURCES

http://www.ext.usu.edu/publica/index.htm

The publications pages of the Utah State University Cooperative Extension Service web site. Many of the best cooperative extension works on food storage can be found here. A definite must for anyone interested in food preservation or storage.

ftp://ftp.michvhf.com/pub/rec.food.baking/FAQ

The rec.food.baking news group FAQ. Very informative.

http://waltonfeed.com/self/index.html

The how-to area of the Walton Feed site. Al Durtschi has put a great deal of information about food production, preservation and storage, nutrition, storage planning and more on the site. It is one of the first sites on the Internet I recommend.

http://www.idos.com

The International Dutch Oven Society. A large resource of information concerning virtually anything that can be done with a Dutch Oven.

http://metalab.unc.edu/herbmed/

Medicinal and culinary herb FAQs, archives of the medicinal herb, culinary herb, and herb-info lists. More than a thousand plant pictures and a plant name database.

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Library/

The Disaster Relief Organization. Some really good preparedness information. The address is case sensitive so make sure to include the capital L.

http://www.fema.gov/pte/prep.htm
http://www.fema.gov/pte/prep2.htm
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/safety/sheets.htm

The FEMA site with files and publications on disaster preparedness, post disaster response, mitigation and more. A good starting place to begin learning. Many will find preparedness literature more palatable if it comes with a Federal agency's name on it and this is the place to get it. Be sure to investigate the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) materials. Your tax dollars went to pay for this stuff, you should use it.

http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Hollys.html http://buddyebsen.com/standeyo/News_Files/Hollys.html

Both sites, one in Australia and the other here in the States, mirror each other. Created by Holly and Stan Deyo they contain a large amount of useful preparedness and survival information. One of the relative few sites outside of the United States to deal with this area. It is of particular interest to Australian's and New Zealanders.

http://www.flash.net/~bhphiker/BHP/

The Back Country homepage. It contains the various "Distilled Wisdom" FAQs from the rec.backcountry newsgroup. The Water Treatment FAQ is of particular interest.

http://www.homecanning.com

The Bernardin (Altrista) web site. Much good information on boiling water bath and pressure canning of all kinds of foods.

http://www.danonenewsletter.fr/indexangl.html

The web site of the French yogurt maker, Danone. Quite a lot of information about fermented milk products and associated topics. Available in English or French. Be patient, it's frequently a slow load.

http://countrylife.net

Articles and discussion forums about baking, grains, fermented milk products, edible wild plants and more. I've read quite a lot on this site.

http://www.managingdesire.org/Hesperian/Hesperian.html

The Hesperian Foundation has a page here for ordering their books, many of which should be on the "must have" list for those into long-term preparedness. These books are Where There Is No Doctor, Where There Is No Dentist and A Handbook For Midwives.

http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/

The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) has compiled a Disaster Handbook for many natural and man-made crises. Some excellent information and well worth a look.

http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/index.html

The Disaster Services portion of the American Red Cross site. Many good how-to type of publications for coping with various natural and man-made disasters can be found here.

http://155.217.58.58/atdls.htm

The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Digital Library. Many very useful training and field manuals that can be hard to find at gun shows and gun stores can be found here. I especially recommend FM25-10 Field Sanitation and Hygiene. This site can be pretty slow at times, but it's worth sticking with it.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

The FDA's Bad Bug Book. Using information compiled from the FDA, CDC and other sources it provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. A good source of information if you're looking for details on food borne pathogens and how to prevent and control them.

http://www.macscouter.com/

One of the best Scouting (boys and girls) sites around. Click on the cooking directory for some really good information on Dutch Oven and other kinds of camp cooking.

http://www.fatfree.com/

A "low-fat vegetarian" web site. Even if you're not a vegetarian it has one of the best search engines for using the USDA Nutrient Database (food nutrient compositions) that I've found.

http://www.breadworld.com/

The Fleischmann Yeast web site. Great information on baking and yeast topics.

http://www.lalecheleague.org/

The La Leche League is the oldest and largest breast-feeding education and support group in the world. If you have an interest in feeding a baby the natural way, these are the people to ask about it.

MANY OF THE FAQs LISTED BELOW MAY ALSO BE FOUND AT
HTTP://WWW.FAQS.ORG

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.food.cooking/

A number of Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) files:

Chocolate_Frequently_Asked_Questions file
Flavouring the World, the FAQ about SPICES
rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file
USENET Food Newsgroup Pointer List

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.food.preserving/

Still other useful Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) files:

Culinary Herb FAQ
Rec.Food.Preserving FAQ

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/rec.food.sourdough/

A number of FAQs and files for sourdough breads

rec.food.sourdough FAQ.Starter.Doctor
rec.food.sourdough FAQ Questions and Answers
rec.food.sourdough FAQ Recipes (part 1 of 2)
rec.food.sourdough FAQ Recipes (part 2 of 2)
rec.food.sourdough FAQ Basic Bread

http://www.azstarnet.com/~thead/msfaq.html

The Meat Smoking and Curing FAQ by: Richard Thead

http://www.foodsafety.org

The National Food Safety database. A very large source of food-safety information of all kinds. Well worth the time.

http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/finl.html

The Food Insects Newsletter site. Just in case you think you might ever have to.

http://solarcooking.org

The Solar Cooking Archive. A major source of information and access to equipment. There are explanations of the physics of how solar cooking works, plans for cookers, commercial suppliers, books, other reading and more. If you're interested in solar you really want to visit this site.

http://home.earthlink.net/~drduggee/solar.htm

An excellent site by containing clear photographs of a number of solar cookers. A good links page to many other solar cooking resources. Some interesting crystal radio info as well.

http://www.homepower.com

The Home Power Magazine web site. They frequently run solar articles, including solar cooking. Many of the articles are available for online viewing or you can subscribe (an excellent idea).

http://www.y2klibrary.com

The How-To Survival Library I, II & III
Library I has lots of projects and info that you can build and use. Library II has more info on gardening and animals, as well as plans and projects. Library III has more hardcore survival info

C.2 SOFTWARE SOURCES

[I do not use these programs myself, but have listed them for those who might be interested. Most are free, but a couple charge a nominal fee.]

http://www.waltonfeed.com/grain/calc.html

There are two Excel spreadsheets here that can also be imported into Lotus 123, Quattropro or Works For Windows. The first spreadsheet is a nutritional calculator showing the breakdown of 65 nutrients for 167 foods with more being importable. The second spread sheet is a yearly supply calculator.

http://waltonfeed.com/self/plan.html

A nutritional calculator that you enter your food supply into and it gives you a daily nutritional printout. It's a smaller, less versatile version of the one from Revelar below, but is less resource intensive and will run on a DOS machine.

http://www.revelar.com/fsp.html

A more extensive, versatile version of the above program, makes it much easier to modify for personal use. It also requires at least a 486, Windows and 8mb of Ram. A version for the Mac is available as well.

http://www.beprepared.com

(click on free software area at top of page) Offered on the Emergency Essentials web site. The first program is a food planner demo for creating shopping lists and planning recipes for any length of time. The second is a 72 hour preparedness program that will take you through various disasters and how to prepare for them. The third is a disaster recovery game.

http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/Hollys.html
http://buddyebsen.com/standeyo/News_Files/Hollys.html

The U.S. and Australian web sites for Holly and Stan Deyo. They offer food storage calculators similar to the one from Revelar, but with more food items already built in. They are available in either metric or Imperial (U.S.) measurements. They also offer the older Revelar program as well. Scroll down the page to the food planning software section.

http://www.permapak.net/freesoftware.htm

The first program is an LDS Food Storage Planner designed to help prepare a food storage program using the food storage recommendations made by LDS church leaders. This program starts out with only the basics and it is strongly recommend that you add fruits and vegetables etc., once you have the basic foods. The second program is a more advanced version of the first which includes more foods beyond just the basic ones of the first.

http://www.arktracker.com/

A proprietary work, it keeps track of storage items such as food, water, hardware, defense, gold, and seeds; the storage method they're kept in; quantities currently on hand and what still needs to be acquired; storage locations; estimated shelf lives; suppliers and item costs. Maybe configured into a number of formats.

http://www.glitchproof.com

        Jim Abel's site who created StoreWise. A scenario planning system that helps you to plan for specific events, decide on the necessary supplies, make sure you're meeting nutritional needs and enables you to keep track of it all.

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Revised: 1 Dec 99