I can picture individuals living in urban or suburban areas growing red and green veggies, but not the kinds of grains which constitute real nourishment, i.e. protein and carbohydrates. How are individuals supposed to grow wheat, rice, and corn in enough quantity to help anything?
How are individuals supposed to grow wheat, rice, and corn in enough quantity to help anything?<<<<
If you start now and learn what will grow for you, then you will survive.
Rice, I have no knowledge of growing, I think it will take lots of water.
Corn does not grow for me in Northern Arizona, but the black Aztec corn will grow, Think I got those seeds at Nichols Garden Nursery in Oregon, the address is in post #107.
the named bean seeds will not grow here, but the “yard long or Asparagus” bean will.
Many of the common garden plants do not grow, it is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter and the wind is always blowing.
I can grow greens, if I use the oriental seeds, non-hybrid types.
I would do as I did in the past, attach a lean to or built on solar greenhouse to my house and grow something the year around.
My husband built mine and it worked, the years are past for me to garden and the wind has ruined it, but I still grow in the beds, or did, until I could no longer go out doors.
Learn which wild foods you can eat, and how to prepare them.
These are wild food links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=958#958
This is an excellent wild food link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=1060#1060
I have bought weed seeds to plant, purslane and amaranth families and like them fine, plus they are good for you.
If you have to barter for part of the food, then that is the way it is, but know what you can eat off the land and grow, has always been my thought.
One could survive on what they find, not to say they would like it, and there are wild animals.
I do not have a perfect answer, there is not one, read through this thread and chase some of the links that we have posted.
It will take time to have a complete survival file here, this is only 2 weeks old and will keep growing, join in, share what you find with us, none of us know it all and many of us know about what has interested us in the past, but not all that we need to know today.
Welcome and do join us here, there may be someone on here that lives in your area.