We have a vegetable garden, an herb garden, some hens, and we tap our sugar maple tree for syrup. The hens eat whatever we throw away, and our grass clippings, fall leaves and deadfall get mulched or composted.
We also forage for mushrooms, hunt and fish when in season.
In a real food shortage, the big game (white-tail deer) would probably disappear in the first month, so I want to learn to trap and prepare small game - which should remain plentiful.
Right now we are far from self-sufficient, but it’s a start.
I am 57 years old - and since my injury, my right arm is
mostly paralyzed. So unless I am teamed up with a
like-minded group of people - in any serious 'survivalist'
scenario - I am pretty much toast.
In my younger days, before my injury, I had a radically
different mindset.