I've often wondered what I would do if the economy tanked, I lost my job, and the system started hunting unvaxxed. You would have to find somewhere that didn't freeze over 6 months out of the year. Canada would be off the list. I would probably die, cause I still suck at gardening, even after years of working at it.
My prepping is definitely sub par. We have about 1 year of food storage for the whole family and lots of seeds. We have lots of books for things that will be important, from gardening, foraging, mushroom identification, to medical triage, butchering game, and plant-based medicine (and many others). I'm on a lot of land and have put an 8 foot fence around several acres to keep deer out. My main problem comes from being a shitty gardener. I can get basic things to grow, like pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, broccoli, asparagus, and other easy to grow vegetables. I have a hard time with anything that requires special attention though, like tumeric, kratom, ginger, etc. I've killed a lot of plants trying to find the right environment for them. I'm trying to grow them with the expectation that their won't be power, so I haven't been putting them in the greenhouse with heat, uv light, and humidity. Maybe you can't grow these things outside of their native ecosystem without electricity. I would like to have the ability to grow these things for their medicinal value if the shit hits the fan though. Maybe if I was doing it full time as a result of not having a full time job in the daytime, it would be different.
Which brings me to the next issue. All of this preparation is dependent on me still having my house and land. If the economy goes to shit and we can't pay for our house (which I still owe several hundred k on, unfortunately), we will lose all of this preparation when the bank takes everything. I work for a defense contractor, so maybe I'll last a little longer than some, but I think we'll be screwed if all of our suppliers go out of business and we can't produce our products anymore.
So I'm back to the dilemma of where to go if we get booted by the jack-booted thugs. I'm in the western US, so there is still plenty of BLM and forest land that has almost no traffic. Most of the places that are furthest from civilization are covered in snow for 6+ months out of the year. I'm going to need somewhere with a better growing climate than that, and a natural water supply. There are lots of logging roads in Oregon that would be abandoned if civilization collapsed, so there may be some places to survive there.
Sounds like you’re doing pretty well! Make sure you have water filtration, I recommend big berkey for off grid and reverse osmosis with electricity or 12v battery converter. Survival straws are good backups.
Make sure your greenhouse is setup in the right direction to maximize sunlight. Since the sun changes path during the seasons you may benefit from two greenhouses. I highly recommend potato boxes with a door on the side for harvesting.
Seek fast growing stuff, that goes from seed to harvest quickly… i have a lot of seeds to make sprouts like mungbeans, while my other seeds are growing. Wild edible weeds like dandelions can be dried and stored and rehydrated… and heck, you have deer around?
They are good eating!
I’d recommend to get a crossbow or compound bow and practice so you can save the ammo for potential two-legged belligerents and for use as a trade good.
I've often wondered what I would do if the economy tanked, I lost my job, and the system started hunting unvaxxed. You would have to find somewhere that didn't freeze over 6 months out of the year. Canada would be off the list. I would probably die, cause I still suck at gardening, even after years of working at it.
If you don’t have any guides to forage for edible wild plants in your local area, do you even prep, bro?
My prepping is definitely sub par. We have about 1 year of food storage for the whole family and lots of seeds. We have lots of books for things that will be important, from gardening, foraging, mushroom identification, to medical triage, butchering game, and plant-based medicine (and many others). I'm on a lot of land and have put an 8 foot fence around several acres to keep deer out. My main problem comes from being a shitty gardener. I can get basic things to grow, like pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, broccoli, asparagus, and other easy to grow vegetables. I have a hard time with anything that requires special attention though, like tumeric, kratom, ginger, etc. I've killed a lot of plants trying to find the right environment for them. I'm trying to grow them with the expectation that their won't be power, so I haven't been putting them in the greenhouse with heat, uv light, and humidity. Maybe you can't grow these things outside of their native ecosystem without electricity. I would like to have the ability to grow these things for their medicinal value if the shit hits the fan though. Maybe if I was doing it full time as a result of not having a full time job in the daytime, it would be different.
Which brings me to the next issue. All of this preparation is dependent on me still having my house and land. If the economy goes to shit and we can't pay for our house (which I still owe several hundred k on, unfortunately), we will lose all of this preparation when the bank takes everything. I work for a defense contractor, so maybe I'll last a little longer than some, but I think we'll be screwed if all of our suppliers go out of business and we can't produce our products anymore.
So I'm back to the dilemma of where to go if we get booted by the jack-booted thugs. I'm in the western US, so there is still plenty of BLM and forest land that has almost no traffic. Most of the places that are furthest from civilization are covered in snow for 6+ months out of the year. I'm going to need somewhere with a better growing climate than that, and a natural water supply. There are lots of logging roads in Oregon that would be abandoned if civilization collapsed, so there may be some places to survive there.
You really got me rambling.
Sounds like you’re doing pretty well! Make sure you have water filtration, I recommend big berkey for off grid and reverse osmosis with electricity or 12v battery converter. Survival straws are good backups.
Make sure your greenhouse is setup in the right direction to maximize sunlight. Since the sun changes path during the seasons you may benefit from two greenhouses. I highly recommend potato boxes with a door on the side for harvesting.
Seek fast growing stuff, that goes from seed to harvest quickly… i have a lot of seeds to make sprouts like mungbeans, while my other seeds are growing. Wild edible weeds like dandelions can be dried and stored and rehydrated… and heck, you have deer around?
They are good eating! I’d recommend to get a crossbow or compound bow and practice so you can save the ammo for potential two-legged belligerents and for use as a trade good.