I went to tractor supply, purchased some fruit trees. I dug holes and planted them couple weeks ago. Two more apple trees for a total of 3 now. A peach tree, 2 large blue berry bushes (dont buy the dormant ones in the store, they are shit, they dont grow) and 2 cherry trees.
I planted 4 (20 foot rows) of potatoes, 1 row of carrots, 3 rows of beets, 4 rows of corn, 1 row of beans. I have 6 kale plants, 4 cabbage, 4 zucinni, 8 cucumber in the ground. Still germinating my tomatoe and pepper seeds. I have 12 sunflower that I will plant in near future.
My aspargus have been producing great this year. My pee has smelled terrible for weeks. Lol.
I also have 10 chickens producing more eggs than I know what to do with. Family and neighbors have been fighting for them.
I still have room for more stuff, trying to decide what I want to put in. Do you have any suggestions?
Now Im out to cut grass and do some weed wacking. I have almost a acre of land, my garden actually takes up a small portion of my property. Its hard work but it fills up my deep feeze every year. Have a blessed day.
My suggestion is to buy rice, beans, wheat, and sugar either precanned with oxygen absorbers, or in bulk and can it yourself with oxygen absorbers. Add a multivatimin and some Walmart or Aldi imitation SPAM and never think about food storage again. Hard white winter wheat is $1.30 a pound precanned and shipped to your door from the LDS online cannery.
Drought, flooding, other forms of bad weather, and pests can all destroy anything you are trying to grow. Physical injury may prevent you from being able to harvest it. Loss of power can make some of it have very short shelf lives.
In sealed steel cans in your basement, nothing short of a massive fire is going to hurt it. It will sit at 65 F for decades with little loss of flavor or nutrition. And I don't know about you, but I'd rather spend a couple extra days working overtime in the air conditioning and buy my food than spend it outside rooting around in the dirt or feeding animals everyday of the year and cleaning up chicken shit.
I studied up years ago in the art of prepping. I have shelves full of canned tomatoe sauce, salsa, spaghetti sauce, picles, relish, and jams. Noodles, bread and just add water 20 year shelf life goods. I bake zucchini bread and carrot cake every year. I dehydrate my own spices. The list goes on and on.
I have already been down the mylar bag/oxygen absorber route. I have couple hundred pounds of flower, corn meal, sugar and salt stored away for safe keeping.
I have a generator and enough fuel on hand for many weeks of electricity loss.
FAFO applies also with regard to the second amendment. Your are not speaking to a amateur, every need has been considered.
Back in 2020, I had 55 gallon drums of gas and diesel. The 💩 didn't hit the fan so it got wasted. We use it to set camp fires now. Try to remember most fuel only lasts about 6 months.
Why does it have to be a
What about small, orderly and clean?