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Jessica
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May 16, 2012 05:43PM

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I have a small veggie farm, and 40 acres of woods and even a small lake that is supposed to be full of trout. I also can and freeze a years worth of veggies and fruit every fall.
Wow maybe I am a prepper. My fear was the quality and quantity of our food supply. Our area of the world would only have a 2 day supply before food would start to run out. Most people can barely prepare a homemade meal these days let alone survive long term with out the comforts of the modern day.
Can't wait for the book release. I will buy it for sure.

Running a farm is becoming a dying art. The average American has no idea what it is the be self-sustaining. My grandparents raised seven children during the 1940s and 1950s. How did they do it? How did they afford it? The lived comfortably by running a self-sustaining household. My grandfather kept a vegetable garden about the size of a football field. They had a chicken coop and usually had a few cows. When they built their home (Pappaw was a carpenter and built the house himself) they even planted pecan trees. They very rarely (if ever) had the need to drive into town to shop at a grocery store.
I wish that I had acquired the skillset my grandfather had. The average American has enough food in their house to last maybe two weeks, one week is probably more common. If the events of "Collapse" actually happened, we would be in big trouble once people started getting hungry!