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Garden Seeds & Seed Kits
Organic seeds for a small garden or a container.
Organic container seed collection: food from a balcony or a stoop, and a fair fit for renters. Saved seed passes easily between neighbours.
$23.9 · as of Nov 2, 2026
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Food
Turn calories into stability
Growing, preserving, and storing food for household independence.
3-5 days
Average household capability
30+ days
Target for resilience
2-4x
Coordination multiplier
The Food Gap
What Most Households Have
- Pantry with ~5 days of food
- Refrigerated perishables
- Some canned goods
What's Usually Missing
- Shelf-stable protein (30+ days)
- Calorie-dense staples (rice, beans, oil)
- Food preservation methods
- Non-electric cooking capability
Most households have 3-5 days of food on hand. Extending to 30+ days requires strategic pantry stocking, preservation knowledge, and backup cooking methods.
Current State
25%
→
Resilient State
100%
Start here
The few food picks we would put first, each with a buy link we checked and a line on why it earns its place on a street.
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Fermentation Crocks & Jar Kits
Crocks and jars for fermenting vegetables without power.
Mason-jar fermentation kit. It keeps a harvest without electricity, and the skill outlives the kit.
Check current price at Fermentaholics (Cultures For Health as peer)
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Cast Iron Skillets & Cookers
Single cast iron pieces that last for generations.
Lodge combo cooker: works on a stove, a grill or coals, and lasts generations. It keeps cooking when the power is out.
$60 - $70
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Cider Presses & Fruit Crushers
Turn spare fruit into juice, with a tool the street can share.
A basket press is the kind of tool one house owns and the whole street borrows each autumn. It turns windfall fruit into juice instead of waste.
roughly $60 - $100 (~$80 in summary table)
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Mushroom Growing Supplies
Logs, spawn and monotubs for growing mushrooms at scale.
Mushroom log bundle: protein from a shady corner and a few hardwood logs, fruiting for years with little upkeep.
$49.99 · as of Nov 2, 2026
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Sourdough Starter Kit
Bread from flour and water, with no yeast packets.
Sourdough starter kit. A shared starter is the oldest neighbour-to-neighbour gift there is.
$30 - $90 (category range)
More Food products
Everything else we carry for food. Some of these links could not be confirmed yet; the retailer has the final word on price and stock.
Food Storage
Shelf-stable nutrition for weeks or months
Products coming soon in this category.
Preservation Tools
Canning, drying, fermenting capability
Products coming soon in this category.
Backup Cooking
Prepare food without grid power
Products coming soon in this category.
Food Production
Growing and raising food
Products coming soon in this category.
The Coordination Multiplier
Neighborhood Pantry Network
Six households with deep pantries and preservation skills can feed 12-15 homes for weeks through shared cooking and resource pooling.
Individual Capability
4 people × 14 days
+
Neighbor Coordination
5 neighbors
=
Network Capability
12-15 households × 14 days
One household that cans, one with bulk staples, and one with a backup stove is already a street-scale kitchen — if people know it exists.
How It Works
[Coordination visualization for food]
Food Guides & Resources
Deeper knowledge for building food capability.