storing food in subtropics

[mary]

Thanks all for your suggestions. i was referring to storing food for long term purposes. basically i figure we are on a small remote island. if something happens to the mainland and things can not be shipped here,the island has 3 days worth of food in the supermarkets here for everyone, not that much food if you think about it. i thought it would of been prudent to store some stuff for the rainy day so to speak. so, what i did so far is ordered some mylar bags from amazon 5gallon once and filled them up with dry goods like red hard wheat and oats and barley, some dry bullion and dry butter, then i put the lids with gaskets on the buckets and seal them well. oh i also through in some oxigen suckers into the buckets to kill any possible bugs in the grains. i am digging a hole just big enough to be ablet to accomodate my buckets. i am going to line the hole with thick plastic that i got from Rudys shade and i am going to put the buckets in there, cover it with plastic and throw 2 feet of dirt over them. i am digging this hole on the top of the hill,and where i am at, its not puna, so i have planty of soft dirt, easy to dig so i figure the rain will run off the hill. anyways, we will see what happens. i will check on these bukets in 3 years and see if they are still any good. i got kids to worry about, thats my main reason for storage.