Now this is a legit good point. Please make a post about this strategy, in general, and reply here so I can up vote it. This is the only way to help our side (any freedom loving people) succeed, for each of them to start doing their own part to keep it all together. We planted 8 fruit trees, and we're going to have a huge garden this summer. I know that ain't gonna feed us, but it's a small start. Also, even though we might spend as much money on the garden and soil and everything else as we would normally spend on produce, at least we can have what we want this way instead of having to cut back because everything is so expensive. Once these fruit trees start bearing fruit, that'll be a massive amount of jars each summer.

Do you own currently or rent? If you've got the money saved up to get a house with an FHA loan, there's no time like the present. Look outside of town, if you're 10 minutes further away, that's 10 more minutes the zombies have to travel, and also that's gonna save you a lot of money and get you a larger size lot. All you need is something like a quarter acre lot with a reasonably sized house and that'll leave you enough room for a big garden. We have a half acre now, but a lot of it is wasted on the driveway (it's ridiculous), but we had a quarter acre years ago and we had a humongous garden with like probably thousands of tomatoes each year. 1/4 acre is a great start, and you only need 3% down with an FHA loan. Also don't ever feel bad for taking an FHA loan (due to the government nature of them), because literally every mortgage made today is a government loan (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set the rules, and then the government guarantees them, these banks just milk us dry with tax dollars and inflation when they fail).