I live with my partner and in-laws on a few acres in the rural US. Right now we both have jobs and are saving as much as we can given the crazy way the world is at the moment.

I make less and am more of a junior professional so it’s likely I would be laid off first in a depression. Given this I’ve been thinking about non monetary ways to contribute.

One obvious one is gardening, which made me realize it might be a good idea to stock up on fertilizer if it went from a hobby to a necessity to grow food.

What other bulk things, or things in general might we stock up on that we would kick ourselves for not buying a lifetime supply of while we can?

Thanks a bunch!

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Living is all about water management. Its amazing how much easier gardening gets controlling the flow of water through it, and some collection of the excess.

    Food preservation had been my next kick personally. Always a good time to get into it. Its all about controlling things living things like. Air, water, light, temp, etc. And things they dont like acid, alchohol.

    Heat kills, cold pauses.

    Gadgets help make it easier or consistent but arent totally needed. A mason jar can grow sprouts, be canned, thrown in the fridge, thrown in the freezer (if you have the head room for ice growth!), to brew alchohol, vinigar, kimchi, saurkraut, etc.

    There are some grow a row orgs (charities and mutal aid) that take food grown in gardens for the community too. Keeping our communities is the only real way to survive imho