It’s time to think about gardening.
We’re surviving on SS alone. However, our “investments” included going debt free. It means our cost of living, even with 32 acres, is roughly 1/4 of our SS benefits. But we keep it low by splitting a cow with a neighbor and having a local butcher cut it up for us, growing a garden, fruit trees, raising chickens, etc. There is also a lot of edible wild “produce” in our area. We have so much wild garlic in our 7 acre lawn that in the spring and fall it smells like I’m mowing a salad. Fortunately it’s dormant during the summer.
We also have several BOOKS on natural medicine as well as wild foods, as well as old school construction techniques. The idea is that if the internet goes down, we’re not left out in the cold on all this stuff.