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My wife and I have always been avid campers, and we have always believed we should have at least a months supply of food in the house in case of emergency. In April of this year a cluster of tornadoes broke out in northern Alabama. We were without power for ten days. We simply broke out our camping supplies, including our solar array. It was barely an inconvenience to live partially off grid for a week and a half.
I cannot say the same for the rest of the people in our inner city neighborhood. We were shocked at how fast conditions deteriorated in the neighborhood, and how some of the people around us acted. My wife and I had no trouble, but part of that is the bad people around us know we are well armed and will not put up with foolishness. We did have to bring one of my wife's friends and her children to stay with us until normalcy returned. She is a single mom living in a low income apartment complex. There were incidents of violence over food there.
That experience got us wondering how things will turn out in the event of a longer lasting problem. Given the current world instability, and the monetary and economic crisis looming, we decided it's time to become self sufficient.. Luckily my wife is a degreed biologist, so food production is easy to figure out, and she was raised a farm girl, so she learned how to can as a girl.
For food production we are doing fruit trees, raised bed gardening inside hoop houses, aquaponics inside the house, and coming soon, outdoor aquaponics, meat rabbits, and duckweed production in old bathtubs to reduce fish food needs. We are here to pick up ideas on how to further maximize our 1/4 acre city lot to feed us, and ideas on how to survive a longer term breakdown of the city supply chain and government.
Jeff
My wife and I have always been avid campers, and we have always believed we should have at least a months supply of food in the house in case of emergency. In April of this year a cluster of tornadoes broke out in northern Alabama. We were without power for ten days. We simply broke out our camping supplies, including our solar array. It was barely an inconvenience to live partially off grid for a week and a half.
I cannot say the same for the rest of the people in our inner city neighborhood. We were shocked at how fast conditions deteriorated in the neighborhood, and how some of the people around us acted. My wife and I had no trouble, but part of that is the bad people around us know we are well armed and will not put up with foolishness. We did have to bring one of my wife's friends and her children to stay with us until normalcy returned. She is a single mom living in a low income apartment complex. There were incidents of violence over food there.
That experience got us wondering how things will turn out in the event of a longer lasting problem. Given the current world instability, and the monetary and economic crisis looming, we decided it's time to become self sufficient.. Luckily my wife is a degreed biologist, so food production is easy to figure out, and she was raised a farm girl, so she learned how to can as a girl.
For food production we are doing fruit trees, raised bed gardening inside hoop houses, aquaponics inside the house, and coming soon, outdoor aquaponics, meat rabbits, and duckweed production in old bathtubs to reduce fish food needs. We are here to pick up ideas on how to further maximize our 1/4 acre city lot to feed us, and ideas on how to survive a longer term breakdown of the city supply chain and government.
Jeff
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