I have some preps you don't have yet, but you are light years ahead of me in the capability of growing food for the long term and that is a major advantage for survival.
I admire your energy and plans moving forward. You are a major prepper in my opinion.
I guess it just doesn’t seem like prepping to me. It’s just a return to living the way I like, and didn’t have time to do when I was working 16 hour days.
I just wanted to grow some non GMO, pesticide free,and contagion free food that would help with the grocery budget.
Our extended family has always gardened, and canned foods. They would always share their pickles, jams, jellies, green beans etc. So the only question was could I do it too?
It’s just more like a way of life to me. I have always had an independent streak, so I just naturally am always thinking about ways I could do stuff. I have always had an interest in the solar home, windmills, etc. which I mostly just indulged by reading and looking at magazines and house plans.
Now it seems that I should have incorporated some of that when we built our home, but we’ll just have to noodle it out from here on. LOL.