Top 3 Survival Crops

If you could only pick three, which crops would you choose? And how would you pick? Is it by ease of growing, ease of storage, nutrition, calories, your climate, or something else? This man eventually choose one crop–potatoes–that I would’ve included in my top three, but the other two surprised me…

Here’s another take on the topic, this time focusing primarily on nine crops which provide calories and nutrients. And if you stick around until the end, he offers one last crop that might surprise you…

So, which would I have chosen before I’d watched these videos? Potatoes for sure. Corn probably would’ve made the list, too. I’m not sure about the third crop. Some form of squash seems useful, but that choice was probably influenced by the video, especially because I’m not a huge fan of squash, though my wife and father-in-law are. I likely wouldn’t have chosen beans either because we simply don’t plant any, unless you consider green beans as part of the beans group, which I do not.

I’ll leave my answer as undecided for now. Personally, I say grow whatever you can because variety is not only the spice of life, but a requirement when it comes to a healthy diet, particularly when it comes to a SHTF diet.