“And watch out for my biker/smokers gang. because we will just take what you worked so hard to build. I’ll even let that nutcase wear his mask-thingy so long as he does my bidding.”
Your biker gang will be shot on the second house and their gas taken for someones generator.
That you suggest such a course of action shows how fragile society is.
>>That you suggest such a course of action shows how fragile society is.<<
That is my point. Don’t plan on gardening. Plan on a primitive and savage society. That will require an entirely different approach than the OP suggests.
As Sipsey says in Fried Green Tomatoes (another great dish from home gardens), "The secret's in the sauce."