Out at the farm where we sometimes shoot, my wifes stepmom is "preparing".
A little at a time. Storing dry goods, investing in airtight buckets and mylar vacuum sealing bags. They keep chicken, ducks, and turkeys, sometimes rabbit. They have pasture (needing to be cut and bailed). Theyll sometimes trade bailed hay, live chickens and eggs for other stuff in their area like fresh milk. They used to have cattle too, but the fences are in desperate need of repair... Once thats done there will be more livestock out there again for meat. It isnt a big place in terms of a "farm" but it provides what they need plus enough to barter with. Theyre moving towards independence, self sufficiency, with things like heirloom seeds for vegetables and by producing from their own stock for meat and auction and trade anything above and beyond their need and what can be saved in the deep freezer.
Plans include diggin a root cellar in the barn, tappin into the spring on the property and a pump, long term water storage issues, puttin iquarters in the barn for more family and gettin other maintenance stuff done sooner rather than later, though this comin season, the field is bein leased out for beans. Theyll be purchasing a reloading kit in the next couple weeks and are gonna start reloadin all my brass I leave them!
Anyhow, I know thats kinda rambling, but thats
her lifestyle. My FIL drives a truck and shes on the farm alone alot with an old Stevens 16 ga. she grabs before she goes for the new Remington. Her and the dogs do pretty well and shes a dead shot with that 16. I just help out with the "preperations"...