I mean the scenario of a serious collapse of civilization with the use of nuclear weapons.
I wonder what is best grown from vegetables and what is not? For example, what about potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers? I want to understand how to feed myself and other people, even if there are crop failures, droughts, bad soil, soil depletion, or something else. I doubt that forests will always be able to provide food, they will only be a good addition, but you should not expect stable food from them, as I managed to see, besides, I am planing to survive not alone, but with a group.
As for the location, since after the collapse, hungry crowds will rob villages and farms that they can reach or know about, I will have to build a house from scratch somewhere a hundred kilometers from cities and civilization, Although maybe I’ll be lucky to find an abandoned house? and plow the land and so on, and unfortunately, I don’t have the ability to prepare everything in advance, and I’ve never grown vegetables before and don’t know how difficult it is in the long run, especially as it used to be, without tractors and other things, but only with the help of a hoe and hard work.
I’m also wondering what healing skills I should know? Will basic first aid skills be enough, or should I write down or memorize how to deal with severe food poisoning, serious illnesses caused by exhaustion or parasites, etc.?
In general, if it is not difficult for you, please tell me where I can get the necessary and verified information without wasting extra time on videos or articles on YouTube, especially if they are edited or completely made with the help of AI including also articles? I don’t trust AI generated content, the authors of which I don’t know if they check the reliability of the information or if they check for five minutes or a maximum of half an hour, believing that everything seems logical and can be posted on the network.
I’m sorry that the post sounds so strange or perhaps paranoid, it’s just that there are so many things to talk about that I decided to cut it down somehow.
I think on this stuff pretty often. I hate to say it, but you’re likely to die along with the rest of us.
Reality is that your best bet is to become a billionaire so you can build a bunker with a decade or two’s resources.
The thought that you (or anyone) would be able to just wander off into the wilderness and set up a new life is pretty much an impossibility. There are about 7 million people in my metro.
Water resources are going to become the biggest, first killer in my area. If you couldn’t turn on your tap, what would you do, right now, what would you do? The water table in my area is often over 500ft and I’d never be able to drill that deep.
On your own, you’re going to be fighting for what meager surface water localles are available, not wandering off to the middle of nowhere. Crops need lots of water here. People need to drink water too.
The “prepper” community leans pretty hard into guns. Partly because they do realize that it’s a hard truth that shits gonna get VIOLENT. Depending on who survives whatever wave 1 looks like people WILL be fighting over what meager scraps of resources remain. Even if you have good water, and good soil, and have sees stock, and don’t need to defend it all… food still takes time to grow.
I’ve reframed my prep around survival for a set period of time. I’m fairly set for a few weeks of food, water and can defend what I have. I have emergency communications with HAM radio and Mesh networks.
Most importantly I have a network of friends and neighbors who are my friends. Banding together is going to help me to survive.