Survival Skill Challenge

Hopefully I'm not the most knowledgeable in the group because in this scenario the way I truly know how to grow food (aquaponically, hydroponically and drip irrigation in soil) won't be available. But if we have seeds I know enough to get them to harvest should it come to me. I can plant, i know how to do succession planting for steady harvest, i can seed collect and I can deal with most pest or disease issues without the need for pesticides and herbicides.

I know how to insall and maintain ancient styles of growing food for large groups of people such as chinampas the aztecs used.

I don't mind hard physical labor needed in this type of scenario. Be it shelter building, fence building, paddock enclosures I can hammer and saw and pick things up and put them down better than most.

Whether we need to find water, filter water, boil water etc etc. I know a bunch of ways to make water potable that doesn't necessarily require filtration. This presumes its not contaminated with like pollutants that won't offgas

While i would never claim to be a permaculturist i can do some highly valuable things when it comes to creating an environment needed to grow food. This goes from soil building techniques, knowing basic permaculture principles and practices, knowing a few ways to compost for with supplemental nutrients for crops or rebuilding barren soil from scratch.

I know multiple ways to burn wood, and carbon based plant matter to make biochar which helps soils hold nutrients, retain water, develop strong microbial environments and aid plants in growing bigger, quicker and more productively.

As with most I'm no expert but I've done it previously so I know I could if i needed to. Whether it be canning, aging meet, building a sun powered food dehydrator (assuming we have some ability to scrounge for commonly found materials today). I know how to make root/food cellars, how to dehydrate fruits and vegetables with the sun, can can and pickle with mason jars (assuming we can boil water).

After years of being too lazy to follow recipes I can pretty much make a meal out of anything. I'm very good at using the last of what left in the fridge and getting something enjoyable on the table. Hopefully theres spices if not I can grow a few. I know how to cook in fires, grills, stoves, ovens. I've built an "openfaced" oven in the woods, built a grill from rocks and slate to cook meats while camping and have cooked over a spit. I'm also quite accomplished at HOBO dinners where you put things like sausage and peppers and onions in tin foil and place it adjacent to burning logs of a fire to cook. I lack experience in cauldron cooking but i think I could figure that out pretty easy as well.

I forget the actual name of this but the ability to look at a map, figure out the scale and track your progress on foot from point A to point B. It's more advanced than just being able to read roads and highways on a map and drive a car around. Useful for trekking in the woods and unknown topographies.

I'm not bad at spinning a yarn around the old campfire.

When faced with restrictions people with creative and unique ability to generate ideas and find solutions where most see obstacles.

I know card games, old camp games, road trip/pass the time games. Assuming theres no internet or electricity someone who knows games and ways to have fun is key. In hockey we call this the glue guy in the locker room. Probably his biggest contribution to the team is filling the water bottles but hes the guy who gets the tunes going in the room, makes the bus trips fun, makes sure everyone is invited to post game meals or hangs and generally rallies the troops to keep things positive.