Saw this on another site - What are we doing to teach ourselves to not need [them]?
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During the Covid year we built a 100 hen laying house with outdoor covered runs. Watching how little it really took to mess up the ‘made to order’ food to market industry woke us up big time. While we are grain feeding now through winter we will have large compost piles and fenced in free range acreage this Spring to reduce/eliminate feed bills.
Once fencing is done we will have pigs and turkeys on boarding by May 2021. We also spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with heritage seeds and even some hydroponic gardening to verify what all could be produced and what grew well that way. We then stockpiled hundreds of thousands of seeds and all the nutrients/fertilizers and all of the recipes written in paper log books for this type of gardening. It starts out a bit overwhelming but I can now in one hour pass off the most important do’s/dont’s, most efficient places to buy necessities, and train another person quickly.
We have also studied long term storage methods and prepped tons of rice, beans, grains, flour, sugar, salt etc and can now say fuck you to Walmart for years if need be. Do I want to? No. But I’m doing what I feel needs to be done in preparation for a ‘planned’ food crisis that will be used for population control. Yes, I’ve spent years studying, experimenting, and have 15-20k tied up in preparations that I may never need....? I like to look at them like condoms or rain jackets; I’d rather have them and not need them than need them and not have em’.
What you have done is truly inspiring to me. We are looking into egg laying chickens. I am afraid I will get myself too upside down in cost to maintain versus return so I want to start small and add on as I can. I am pretty good with gardening. Part of our land will be cleared and I intend to dig an underground greenhouse. I have done the research and, theoretically, will allow me to grow almost year round. Have you heard of this?
No I’m. It familiar w the underground greenhouse. Where are you roughly located? We’re in TX so aside from the arctic blast we are currently experiencing we can generally grow in standard greenhouses throughout the winter.
The egg laying chickens are a no brainer. Very easy and your family could easily survive on the eggs, an easy stored grain like rice, and some greens that you can grow. Combine those with fresh water and you are not a slave. Keep it simple and how to best accomplish those 4 things water, eggs, grain, greens and then you can get as extravagant as you want.
Just remember to plan ahead. We have planted 60 Apple/pear differing varieties so that different trees will bear fruit from late June all the way to November-December. These fruits can be readily eaten, canned/sauced or fed to farm animals (pigs). The orchard was started 2 years prior to our acquiring the pigs so we would have some supplemental food sources once they were here. The pigs will be kunekunes variety which are grazing pigs that came from New Zealand so they can actually be grown fully on Bermuda grass if you choose.