To grow and eat only food we’ve grown
The thinking here is that I’ll be gone for half the year. Alibot and I also wanted to do cool stuff with our home, land, diet, eventual family, and our lives. We don’t want to screw up the planet with garbage. We want to be healthy and avoid crappy foods with additives, coloring, preservatives, and general chemicals. What better way to accomplish this than grow our own food?
There are a lot of things we’ve got to get much better at to realize this goal. Here are a few:
- farming, seasonal planting, keeping seeds
- food preservation, canning, jarring, smoking
- animal husbandry, bacon is good, meat is good too
I don’t want to have to reinvent all this stuff. I know that mankind in general has already figured all this stuff out! Often some of the coolest research you can do is finding out what people have already done. There are many, many books and stuff on the subject. In fact, there are even movies on it! Check out the bibliography for all of them.