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He’s not, I’ve been tracking it too. Plan on a garden with heirloom plants, even if you have to do container gardening. Learn to can, alternative heat. Filter water, standard live off the grid/EMP stuff. Ammo, Weapons, non power tools. 100% USA MADE https://tarterusa.com/ BOTTOMLESS horse troughs, fire rings, and where to find a dealer. Water collection.

Our soil is junk, we use containers. Pest control for the garden. Found fungus control doesn’t work well. Lost 200 strawberry plants to one.

If you think TP was a big problem food, electricity will be worse. No freezers yet except a few small Chinese pieces of junk. Gas of course will be a issue, BBQ grill charcoal or propane to cook on. Get before inflation hits.

I do the grocery shopping and meat, canned goods are already short, pet food has gone out the roof price wise. Sales are like buy 5 boxes of easy to go stale kiddie cereal doesn’t work for 1 person. Or shelf is empty odd brands you have no idea of quality/taste. You will need basics for baking, seasoning. Rotating your stock is a must. Rice, pasta, dried beans, store well in 5 gal labeled lidded buckets. Look for long term storage items that don’t need a fridge.

Bigger issue is fresh stuff. Milk, eggs, bread, dairy that don’t store long.

I've been a prepper on and off for close to 20 years. I'm sure my wife at times thought I was a little nuts but not anymore. After 5 years of insanity, lies and crimes of the Left and then COVID, she's convinced I'm not crazy at all. When I saw empty shelves in Italy, I went shopping, including buying that little chest freezer we'd been wanting for quite a few years and 36 mega rolls of TP.

I'm sure our neighbors think I'm crazy for building a fence around 12 acres and getting meat goats, all while we still have no well. WE HAVE A MEAT SUPPLY. The first place we lived while looking for land here in rural MO, was totally off the grid and we'd have to walk back up a pretty good hill carrying gallons of water. Now I just drive my little tractor down the road and fill the tank that sits on a trailer. Seems easy and the creek I get water from is Spring fed. We don't drink it but use it for everything else. We either buy bottled water or fill a clean 55 gal drum at a neighbors who's got a 300+ foot well.

I built a smoker a few years ago and a wood fired grill. We heat strictly with wood and can cook on the flat top of the wood stove. I've done pressure canning, including meat. I recently saw some articles and videos of people using a rocket stove to run a pressure canner so I need to build one of those. Also want to build a rocket stove water heater. Would be for outdoor use initially. Our wringer washer is outdoors. I've got a spot picked out for a root cellar. Got stuff to build a high tunnel. Stocked up on heirloom seeds a while back.

It took us two years to find this place but it was worth the wait. South facing elevation. 1-2 foot of top soil up on the 2-3 acre level area. Clayey loam, listed as Prime Farmland on the soil survey website. We're surrounded by Springs that put out potable water. Electric/phone run right down our 1,500 foot of road frontage. Took me three years to get the electric easement cut so we lived off grid for a total of five years and can do it again if need be. We had phone/dsl a few weeks after getting the cabin built. We lived off of 350 watts of solar panels, inverter and LED lighting. At times, we were surfing the web when our neighbors couldn't because the electricity was out.

As soon as the steal was a done deal, we bought a low mileage(for us) car that gets 30mpg. Wife's happy because she doesn't have to drive a full size pickup anymore.

Still on the to do list. Small pigs, more hens and I think I'm going to get one dairy goat doe which will give us milk. I've got one hen left out of half a dozen but she's the ultimate homestead hen. Knows how to not get killed by the hawks. I don't feed her but she still lays an egg every day so she's a good forager. If more than 8 eggs accumulate, she'll set on them so I'm going to get a dozen fertilized eggs from the neighbor and lock her in the coop so she can hatch and raise them.

Also on the list is an earth bermed house. Hopefully we can get that built before things get real bad. Will be similar to an earthship in the technical design aspect but done with traditional materials. Concrete foundation and walls. Not dirt filled tires and dirt floor. Too wet here.

Someone needs to start a Weekly Prepping thread. https://reusablecanninglids.com/ Tattler Reusable Canning Lids. Can be found on ebay/amazon too.