going on the offense, finally. Good idea.
Also, now is the time to plant a garden, and get canning equipment. If push comes to shove, people in the US have survived on domestic rabbits, and chickens. Chickens and rabbits are easy to raise, even in places as small as a suburban home back yard.
I realize there are ordinances against it, but those ordinances need to lift if people need food. Call the rabbits pets and keep them in big dog cages that can be moved around on the lawn. Use the slide in floor only when moving the animals. Pull the floor out of the bottom slide, and let them graze. They eat grass. Cheap to feed.
Same with the chickens. If you keep moving them every day, they will fertilize the lawn without damaging it much. Chickens lay one egg a day each hen, so, get one for each family member. There are some nice small egg layers that are maybe twice the size of pigeons. Some of them are as beautiful as garden flowers.
When the weather gets really cold (if it does) transport the large dog cage with up to four chickens to a space in the garage that sits over the top of a raised bed of soil. Better yet get Eisenia fetida manuer eating worms in a raised bed, and put the chicken cage over the top of the bed of manuer worms.
https://www.wormfarmingsecrets.com/worm-composting-food/animal-manures-in-worm-composting/
Keep the worms watered like plants. Let the chicken droppings fall to the worms.
You will never have to clean the chicken cage, if the droppings fall into the raised bed, and the worms will create the best compost ever for your garden.
I have a small farm, and have researched growing tomatos, peppers, other garden plants in pots, cloth shopping bags, etc. Container gardening works if you get the fertilizer/compost right before planting. I have tomatos growing fine in five gallon buckets, and plan to do many other garden plants.
You can grow outrageous numbers of carrots and potatoes in bags if you look up the methods of container gardening. Here is just one of many examples. People really getting into this cuz it is much fun, and requires so little space. You can end up with 100 lbs of potatoes with a few good size bags, if done right.
How to grow Potatoes In Containers - Complete Growing Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6iW_ji6sU
BTW, Amish say you need 11 tomato plants per person in the family to can for a year. Also, my amish friend says it takes 250 quart jars of food a year per person to make it harvest to harvest.
Peppers work the same way. Bags.
Onions, garlic, can be put next to petunias. Storage can be easy. pickle the cucumbers. Veggies can be picked, slightly steamed for two minutes, ziplocked, frozen. Get a chest freezer.
If you are in an apartment, or If you do not have a back yard to garden space, consider working with a person near by who has the space, but not the time to grow a garden.
I have to figure, done right, you could raise a years worth of food for a family of four in a suburban back yard in containers. But you have to make sure the nutrients are in the bag. It is not like regular gardening where the roots can spread out. It is about packing everything the plants need, but, the space required is very small. Cheap drip tape on a timer keeps the watering chores at bay.
WTF.
Get them the hell out of here.
You do not let foreign nations own your farmlands and food companies. What if they just decide one year not to plant?
Jees.
Talk about national security and supply chains?
Hello?
We need to kick out all foreign farm owners, and take our farms back, if the foreigners have been buying up American farms. No wonder the damn land was so expensive, even though no one could afford to buy it or pass it down.
Good grief.
Food security is national security? Hello?????