We’ve stocked up.
It’s important too to have the means to keep producing your own food. So we’ve also stocked on heirloom seeds and ammo, and planted some fruit trees. The heirloom seeds were a trial and error - we tried one company, and none of them germinated. We then tried Seed Savers and they did pretty well, but it took some trial and error to find varieties that would grow well in the GA heat. This year we are planting seeds I saved, so I feel we’re finally ahead of this curve a bit.
A good book on foraging is nice to have (I’m reasonably sure we will never need it, but I also never thought we’d have a commie in the WH...)
PS - in the past year, we have taken out a chunk of our retirement and put it into food/water preps and land. I know you really don’t “own” the land with property taxes, but it’s a little peace of mind. The reason we did this was during the depression, folks with land, fared somewhat better than folks in urban areas. The rest of our retirement we moved around to different types of accounts in different banks.
Talk to the oldtimers locally, who've actually grown various vegetables in the local soil and weather conditions. They'll know better than anybody. The soil and weather can be just slightly different enough a few miles down the road to favor a different varietal.
Around here, the soil is red clay running to black loam in the creek and river bottoms. For tomatoes, German Johnsons are the tried and true. Eight miles away I have family, the land flattens out and the soil shifts to sandy, an odd pink color, which is a combination of southern red clay and sand. Hotter there in general too. That soil is less acidic. They grow fantastic Beefsteak tomatoes, never have gotten any of mine to turn out like that.
So, talk to the oldtimers. They know. Most of them would be thrilled to realize that somebody values their experience, if approached correctly. If not approached correctly, you'll just get crotchety, lol.
Waving at justsaynomore!!!!
I hope you and yours are all well.