That is a good article on preparation. One big thing some might need to remember is that it’s not a great idea for unprepared masses to realize *you* are the prepared one.
We are on the cusp of spring. Something for some to consider might be a bit of “guerilla gardening.” Planting edibles, especially those not typically recognized, in unexpected locations. Carrots, turnips, potatoes, jerusalem artichokes, various greens, squashes, radishes, beans, peas. Root crops aren’t recognized by most people.
Having months of canned, frozen, dehydrated and freeze dried food is wonderful but adding in fresh things will be a plus as long as they can be washed/cooked thoroughly. I’m looking at the long term supply chain disruption on this. And I know I have neighbors who may eye my garden. This year the bulk of my garden will not be where they think. Paranoid? Maybe. Prepared? Yes.
Don’t forget to plant herbs, too.
I would hazard a guess that most people don’t have a clue what they look like. They often look just like other ornamental plants so you could easily put them in you flower garden and nobody would be the wiser.
Suggestion:
Buy enough seed of the cheap stuff for your neighbors to plant gardens too.
When things start ‘making’, let enough go to seed for you and the neighbors. Lots of pages on the net on how to save seed from this or that.
When your tomatoes start making the little suckers, pinch them off and pot them up and give them to neighbors/friends so they can have tomato starts too.
Get a 6 or 8 sweet potatoes from the grocery store. Plant them in containers under a cpl inches of dirt. Water them regularly and put them in full sun. When they start sending up slips you’ll have enough for you and the neighbors too. You can train them up a fence (do NOT let them root along the ground as they grow, you won’t get any if they do that) and they look like an ornamental vine or screen.
If things get really dodgy, the last thing you want is to be well fed in a neighborhood of skeletons.
I save buncho seeds every year, just in case. They don’t take up any room and each year when I get more I feed the old ones to my chickens.