What kind of collapse i mean?: Global.
I’ve just just just started preparing, well, better late than never, right?
If something happens I will try my best to die at the first blast. I am too old and tired and blasee for any apocalypse.
Plans are already in place. I’m gonna kick back, watch Blast from the Past, and kiss my ass goodbye while I get good and drunk/messed up. It’s the same thing I do during storm season. I’ve started from literal nothing too many times. I refuse to do it again.
Know your neighbors, befriend your neighbors, when the collapse happens you’ll need food in your gardens sure, but you’ll need your neighbors to think you’re more than a spare pantry when their food gets low, even better if you like each other enough to form a real community thats more defendable and resilient than any single household could be
Being there for your neighbours and building community is also a great way to reduce dependence on billionaires
by making peace with death
Been learning to garden for a few years. This year I’m focusing on perennials, specifically heirloom species that were staple food crops prior to the modern industrial era.
Turns out pretty much every non native plant in North America is a food crop. These plants often have superiour nutritional content as well as being more drought resistant, hardy, and ecologically sustainable.
A few to google.
Bambara ‘Beans’ - West African Staple for 300 years. All 9 amino acids. Bio available B12. Grows like legumes. Nitrogen fixer
Bamboo - Edible varieties have lots of fiber and potassium, some protein and low fat.
Old King Henry - Edible shoots like asparagus, edible leaves like spinach, edible grainlike seeds similar to quinoa
Skirret - clumping root vegetable that looks like carrots. Has higher carb density than carrots.
Comfrey - Top Tier mulch/fertilizer.
Clover - Edible nitrogen fixer
Dandelions - Edible nitrogen fixer
Cat Tails - Indigenous, all parts are edible, winter survival crop.
Ashitaba - apparently this plant has insane nutritional benefits for the body and originates from an Okinawan island with the longes average lifspan in the world.
I always see some truly naive optimism in threads like these. Global collapse means shipping is dead, which means every city is in a state of famine.
Pick your closest city, split the population in 4 for each cardinal direction and run some rough estimates on how many will be walking near your door. That’s ignoring all the people in your own town that don’t have gardens.
I know I have close to a million people coming my way, and someone’s going to kill me for my little dozen potatoes. You can’t fight off that many people with a handful of neighbors. It also takes a shit load of gardening to keep a family of 4 alive.
If your plan doesn’t involve getting the fuck out of dodge and having a cache of food somewhere remote (with a cottage or small cabin if you live in a winter region), it will fail.
You probably have the most realistic advice, I support it, but I’m afraid we will have to move a lot just like in the book McCarthy Road.
Assuming your favorite apocalypse fantasy setting doesn’t involve cities getting nuked, that’s the place hole up with your hoard of food.
A cottage in the woods stands out. It’s attractive. A boarded up apartment doesn’t, isn’t.
Once the bulk of the starving and murdering is done with, you can go find yourself a nice cottage that didn’t get shot up too badly.
Looking up closest shop for arms. Will likely be visiting places to test things out.
First of all, even the odds a bit by keeping the knowledge of how to survive to yourself.
Why would you keep that knowledge to yourself?
I mean I’m barely alive with depression… guess I’ll just die and hope to get reincarnated to a better world next time (if there even is such a thing as “next time”)
