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The following video may help address some issues regarding a long term country wide emergency and food production, preservation and distribution. It covers how some of these issues were addressed in Great Britain during WWII.
According to the opening of this series; "When WWII broke out two thirds of all Britain's food was imported." Due to the Nazi blockade, Great Britain had to become self sufficient and raise almost all its own food with little or no warning. This series illustrates this period of history by attempting to recreate the day to day life on a war time farm. Historians demonstrate by living the life under those conditions for a year. Points are made with interviews with historians specializing in specific areas of technology, government or culture that would have affected the lives of individuals in the farming community. Attempts are made to recreate or replicate various technologies used during this time period. Some of the methods used to feed the British population may seem extreme by today's standards. IMHO many of the adaptations were brilliant given the time and circumstances.
BBC - Wartime Farm Episode 2
Second installment of BBC Wartime Farm.
This episode touches on the following topics:
Sugar beets takes the place of imported cane sugar.
How to form a "Pig Club". In both urban and rural areas pig clubs were formed of two or more families. Each family donated scrapes (kitchen and garden waste) to be boiled into swill to fatten a pig. When the pig reached slaughter weight the meat was distributed between the families. Note; "The feeding of animal by products to pigs was linked to an increase in foot and mouth disease during the War.".
How to make a silage bin from scrape corrugated mental.
How to make silage from nettles (weeds that can sting if they come in contact with bare skin).
How to properly store and treat above mentioned silage.
Rationing.
Foraging for wild foods.
Victory gardens.
Frugality in the kitchen.
Hay box cooking to help minimize fuel use.
Wartime black market touched on.
Woman's Land Army- Land Girls.
Need for labor and overcoming racial prejudice.
WI - Woman's Institute: Woman's organization volunteers to preserve food buy canning in jars or metal cans.
Using chicken wing feathers to make feather dusters.
Dig for Victory
How average citizens help to feed a nation with small scale agriculture in Great Britain during WWII.
Dig For Victory - Vintage video
Rationing In Britain - Vintage video
WW2. Food. Episode One
According to the opening of this series; "When WWII broke out two thirds of all Britain's food was imported." Due to the Nazi blockade, Great Britain had to become self sufficient and raise almost all its own food with little or no warning. This series illustrates this period of history by attempting to recreate the day to day life on a war time farm. Historians demonstrate by living the life under those conditions for a year. Points are made with interviews with historians specializing in specific areas of technology, government or culture that would have affected the lives of individuals in the farming community. Attempts are made to recreate or replicate various technologies used during this time period. Some of the methods used to feed the British population may seem extreme by today's standards. IMHO many of the adaptations were brilliant given the time and circumstances.
BBC - Wartime Farm Episode 2
Second installment of BBC Wartime Farm.
This episode touches on the following topics:
Sugar beets takes the place of imported cane sugar.
How to form a "Pig Club". In both urban and rural areas pig clubs were formed of two or more families. Each family donated scrapes (kitchen and garden waste) to be boiled into swill to fatten a pig. When the pig reached slaughter weight the meat was distributed between the families. Note; "The feeding of animal by products to pigs was linked to an increase in foot and mouth disease during the War.".
How to make a silage bin from scrape corrugated mental.
How to make silage from nettles (weeds that can sting if they come in contact with bare skin).
How to properly store and treat above mentioned silage.
Rationing.
Foraging for wild foods.
Victory gardens.
Frugality in the kitchen.
Hay box cooking to help minimize fuel use.
Wartime black market touched on.
Woman's Land Army- Land Girls.
Need for labor and overcoming racial prejudice.
WI - Woman's Institute: Woman's organization volunteers to preserve food buy canning in jars or metal cans.
Using chicken wing feathers to make feather dusters.
Dig for Victory
How average citizens help to feed a nation with small scale agriculture in Great Britain during WWII.
Dig For Victory - Vintage video
Rationing In Britain - Vintage video
WW2. Food. Episode One