Rhubarb

[exeexe]

So i did some research and found that rhubarb can grow in Canada.

http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=RHRH2

So what could be interesting is that you can harvest them and this can provide food, but also maybe you can find ways to use the big leaves.

The big leaves could be used for a makeshift construction like a windbreaker or maybe to insulate you from the ground when sleeping in the open.

http://newfs.s3.amazonaws.com/taxon-images-1000s1000/Polygonaceae/rheum-rhabarbarum-le-ahaines-a.jpg

Something like this

http://www.livereadynow.com/our-surviva ... e-shelter/

[caverdude]

rubarb in the winter?

[exeexe]

Ah yeah then it doesnt work

[exeexe]

Yeah what i meant with a wall was also a fire reflector like this

https://youtu.be/WEj5pl9xgu0?t=7m49s

Edit: ah its called a "Lean-To"

[EternityTide]

I would like to see some hot houses at some point. Hot houses can keep growing food throughout the coldest winter provided they have a steady source of heat. I've seen a number of designs that heat themselves of compost bins which release heat from microbial metabolic activity. They barely need anything except some fresh waste every few months to keep going, and they can heat an average green house quite well.

[toebar]

I would like to see some hot houses at some point. Hot houses can keep growing food throughout the coldest winter provided they have a steady source of heat. I've seen a number of designs that heat themselves of compost bins which release heat from microbial metabolic activity. They barely need anything except some fresh waste every few months to keep going, and they can heat an average green house quite well.

This could well be true (and I am quite interested by the form of bio-heating you mention! ), but I don't really feel like having something like this fits in with winter survival. Building a greenhouse would be stretching it a bit.

Maybe you could find one already, but typically in the North, greenhouses are used (on a personal level at least) to extend the growing season (earlier start for seedlings to transplant outside) rather than to grow full crops.

I do have a wood stove in my greenhouse, so it COULD be done, but the wood required when its -40 would be crazy--so possible, but not that plausible. Even if it could be done, the amount of food in a small green house would not likely feed you for long, given the calorie requirements in-game. Also, you'd have to pollinate everything yourself, since there's no bees

<..starves to death waiting for peas to grow...>

[caverdude]

Yes I think he meant finding a hot green house. I'd say it's possible one residence might have one with good growing food in it. But what about a chicken coop?

[JErosion]

also keep in mind with Green houses unless someone has been keeping the plants watered you may find a green house full of dead plants... a brown house?... that sounds terrible

[Hotzn]

Rhubarb, guys, really? 8-)

[EternityTide]

also keep in mind with Green houses unless someone has been keeping the plants watered you may find a green house full of dead plants... a brown house?... that sounds terrible

well if I lived in an area where snow would frequently blockade the access to the greenhouse, I would set up a water-drip feed system that fed from a large water butt. Those water butts can last for months with a constant drip system.