Stock Up on This Apocalypse-Proof Investment Today

Dear Money & Crisis Reader,

The attack starts in the middle of the night.

A nuclear missile, undetectable by U.S. tech, is detonated high above the mainland.

The resulting electromagnetic pulse powers down the grid… fries our defense systems… and leaves us wide open to attack.

Before half the country even knows what’s going on, Washington, NORAD and 14 other strategic defense locations are wiped off the map.

When you wake up the following morning…

The world as you know it is gone.

The banks… your savings… your investments and 401(k)… all wiped out.

The only real currency will be the items that help you survive every day.

Nonperishable food packaged before the attack will be essential to surviving in those early days. But eventually, the supply of canned food will run out.

You’ll need to start producing your own food if you’re going to survive. And any surplus fruit and vegetables you grow are going to be worth their weight in gold.

But the looting and scavenging that will take place in the days following the attack will make it almost impossible to get your hands on some good seeds.

So you’re better off buying a robust supply of seeds now and storing them somewhere cool and dry like your basement.

Be careful though!

Buying the wrong type of seed could spell disaster.

The Bad Seed

If you go down to the veg aisle at your local store today… and pick up a basket of tomatoes… I can almost guarantee you’re going to be looking at what growers call hybrid vegetables.

Hybrid vegetables are created when growers force two different varieties of plant to cross-pollinate. This creates a new plant that takes on characteristics from both plants.

Here’s why big companies like these hybrids…

At some point in time, supermarkets got it into their heads that naturally grown vegetables look… unnatural.

So the growers keep the vegetables as uniform as possible to keep the supermarkets happy…

They end up throwing away thousands of pounds of perfectly good food because it is slightly too big… or the color isn’t the perfect shade of red.

Hybrids, however, tend to produce a more even crop, with many of the vegetables growing to about the same size and weight — in the same amount of time.

But hybrid vegetables are highly unstable. The crops grown from their seeds won’t retain the same quality of the first batch. So they need to be grown from scratch every year in hyperspecific conditions.

Which makes growing them in the wild incredibly unpractical.

To ensure you can grow a healthy crop year after year, here’s what you’ll need…

Heirloom Seeds: The King of Seeds

An “heirloom seed” is simply a seed from a crop that was grown before we started crossbreeding all of our vegetables.

They fell out of fashion post-WWII, when hybrids dominated the commercial vegetable market. But their stability and resilience make them a must for your survival preparation kit. Heirlooms are open-pollinating. Which means that unlike hybrids, you can collect the seeds and replant them year after year.

Since they aren’t a Frankenstein mishmash of two variations, your crop will remain strong and consistent over the years.

But that’s not all. Heirlooms provide a host of other benefits for both survivalists and hobbyist growers…

1. They Taste Amazing

A lot of the breeding programs for modern hybrids have sacrificed taste in order to create a consistent “product.”

Take the standard Florida tomato, for example.

What was once a juicy, tangy tomato is now a grainy, cardboard-like shadow of its former self. That’s because they’re bred to be picked while they’re still green and gas-ripened.

That’s fine and dandy if the goal is to ship them cross-country without going rotten… but it ruins the taste.

You can’t beat the juiciness of a fat heirloom tomato. Or the sweetness of a deep-purple chocolate pepper.

I guarantee, folks would be much happier to eat their vegetables if these bad boys were readily available.

You might think that taste wouldn’t matter much in a survival situation. But great-tasting food is a tried-and-tested boost to morale. It will also command a higher price when you’re trading.

2. Heirloom Crops Are More Nutritious

Commercial growers push their crops to the limit, trying to grow as much as possible with as few resources as possible.

This leads to unnaturally high yields… but at the cost of nutrition.

For example, protein concentration in wheat and barley declined 30–50% percent between 1938 and 1990.

While official USDA nutrient data shows that the calcium content of broccoli averaged 12.9 milligrams per gram in 1950, only 4.4 milligrams per gram were found in broccoli by 2003.

When food is scarce… and malnutrition is one of the greatest threats to your family… heirlooms will be all the more valuable.

3. They Don’t Ripen All at Once

Big companies love hybrids because they can harvest their crops all at once.

But if you’re growing at home, it’s far more beneficial to have a gradual supply of fresh produce.

Otherwise, you’ll have to harvest everything all at once and be scrambling to preserve and sell as much as you can in a short amount of time.

4. They’re Cheap

Since heirloom seeds end up producing more heirloom seeds, they tend to be much cheaper than their hybrid cousins.

And when you take into account the fact that you can collect and reuse the seeds every year, that cost works out to practically nothing.

Which makes buying and storing some heirlooms for an emergency — or planting them now and getting a head start on your survival farm — a no-brainer.

Of the few criticisms I’ve heard of heirloom seeds, the only one that holds any water is that they tend to not be as resistant to weather or disease compared to hybrids.

And while this is certainly true, there are heirlooms that have adapted to the local climate so well that they are in fact more resilient than hybrids.

Find out what your local heirlooms are and stock up to bolster your crop’s resilience.

All the best,

Owen Sullivan
Editor, Money & Crisis

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