We live in a condo. How's that gonna work?
I live in the 'burbs, and do some vegetable gardening, but it wouldn't be nearly enough for survival mode, especially without water utilities.
IIRC, it was T. Jefferson that thought we'd be better off remaining an agrarian society, and George Patton who thought farmers make the best warriors. These were greats who knew their history.
In the event of an economic meltdown, I'd bet they look prophetic.
My mother's parents, who survived the Great Depression on a shoestring, worked incredibly hard on their gardening and canning, even late into their 80's. I think they knew history, too.
If we do suffer a great collapse, it will be a separation of the chaff from the wheat. Those with strong survival instinct, both good and evil, will survive.
Rural people, farmers, those who are tough and independent, who know how to defend themselves, and have prepared.
Just imagine how a Great Depression will play out now, with such a monstrous dependent class. Cities would be looted and burned to the ground.
It might be a little cozy in the condo for chickens and other farm animals- but you can grow more veggies than you think in containers.
People who don’t have much land/yard should look into container and square foot gardening. Whatever you can grow, you are that much further ahead.
I have plenty of land for a garden, but I am just not up to caring for a real garden any more. This year I did the container gardening just to try it- it is working great, I wish now I had planted a bunch more containers.