If your intent is to be totally independent for food supply for 2022 and beyond, then a stockpile just isn't going to cut it, you can only save food for so long. Get to gardening and preservation. That's probably far and away the easiest part and you can get a lot out of a not all that big garden. It's not even that long lost of an art, I used to get vegetables and home-canned stuff from grandparents and great-grandparents all the time. I tried a little bit of it in the summer, as I usually grow a very small garden with nothing more than the easy-to-grow items and there's always too much of it. It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's really satisfying getting to plate and serve the things you grow, too. I've gotten a ton of tomatoes this summer and wouldn't you believe it I'm still getting tomatoes! It's mid-November and the tomato plants just aren't wanting to give up! They've been good for eating raw, putting into the things I cook..
This is my 2nd year tending to one now and I wish I started years ago. Moreover, I wish I gardened with my Granddad. He'd tend a big one every summer and I helped a few times but kid-me thought it was boring and wanted to get back to playing his video games instead. Now I'm into gardening and he's so old and weak he can't garden anymore.
We get to talk about it, at least. And most importantly I know of one more thing I'm going to have my future children do that I didn't do when I was a kid!
If your intent is to be totally independent for food supply for 2022 and beyond, then a stockpile just isn't going to cut it, you can only save food for so long. Get to gardening and preservation. That's probably far and away the easiest part and you can get a lot out of a not all that big garden. It's not even that long lost of an art, I used to get vegetables and home-canned stuff from grandparents and great-grandparents all the time. I tried a little bit of it in the summer, as I usually grow a very small garden with nothing more than the easy-to-grow items and there's always too much of it. It's crazy easy to do and just from my tiny garden I've got a few jars each of pickles, peppers, and squash.
It's really satisfying getting to plate and serve the things you grow, too. I've gotten a ton of tomatoes this summer and wouldn't you believe it I'm still getting tomatoes! It's mid-November and the tomato plants just aren't wanting to give up! They've been good for eating raw, putting into the things I cook..
This is my 2nd year tending to one now and I wish I started years ago. Moreover, I wish I gardened with my Granddad. He'd tend a big one every summer and I helped a few times but kid-me thought it was boring and wanted to get back to playing his video games instead. Now I'm into gardening and he's so old and weak he can't garden anymore.
We get to talk about it, at least. And most importantly I know of one more thing I'm going to have my future children do that I didn't do when I was a kid!