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Alright, I will chime in on this thread since most of the haters left.
I was raised hunting and fishing. My parents always had a huge garden and mid summer to fall meant canning season in our house. My parents still live like this and If I were to walk into their "root cellar" I would see 400+ quarts of canned tomatoes and other various veggies. These are not old, these are done every year and my parents live off their garden throughout the year. In fact, I was over there the other day and they still had onions in there from last fall that were hanging from mesh bags
Because of being raised this way, I have always felt the need to try and be self sufficient. I also like knowing how my veggies were grown. The only additives in my soil is cow or turkey shit. I also smoke meats, fish, hunt etc and try and keep my chest freezer full with meat, whether it something I shot or something I bought a lot of because it was on sale at the grocery store.
In today's world they call this prepping, 20-30 years ago this was a normal way of life.
In addition to having a full freezer, I also have 6 buckets with sealed mylar bags. 200lbs of rice, 100lb of granola and 50lbs of wheat. I also dehydrate raspberries and strawberries that I can not make into jam because there are just too damn many here. Overall I would say I have 5-6 months of food here for me, my wife and son.
I bought everything to make a wind turbine this last fall but just never got around to building it. I also was going to order solar panels and build a solar array but again, ran out of time. The funny thing is, i bought the turbine for my ice house I keep on the lake in the winter so I didn't have to haul 4 deep cells back and forth every 4-6 weeks. I am positive these deep cells could run my freezer for at least 10-15 days if I piggybacked them. If I really needed more power I have a 3800 watt generator but to me, if a disaster situation ever did arise, this would be like yelling - Come take my shit.
My wife and I are looking to move further out into the country. Ideally I would like to have 50-60 acres with water running through my land (easy here in the land of 10,000 lakes) Hopefully the real estate market remains weak for the next 2-3 years so we have time to find the perfect setup.
Do I really think anything bad is going to happen? Nope.
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