[Granny Bear]

I swear Ballers, I just love you!!

And I agree with you.

Let's say the worst happens, and the world as we know it loses a lot of technology and money driven commodities.....you couldn't live in a better place than right here!!

At least in this part of the country, most folks my age have participated in gathering food and resources to preserve and use in the future. When I was young (YES I was young at one time!), I remember helping my mother and grandmother store different types of food for the upcoming winter. My Granny used to say that every family needed at least 250 cans of "stuff" before they could make it through the winter. "Stuff" referred to canning, sweet potatoes, beans, pickled corn, chow-chow, etc etc. Also, we had to have enough ground corn for meal and corn to feed the livestock. We grew a LOT of corn!! We normally slaughtered a hog, and my daddy would preserve it some way or another.....either my salting or other methods.....to hang in the smoke house, and use during hard times. And let me tell you NOTHING from that hog was wasted. Even the chickens were thinned down; you kept 2 of the younger roosters and some hens, but all the old hens were killed and canned. We dug a root cellar every year, and lined it with hay..to hold apples, cabbage, potatoes and anything else that we wanted to use as "fresh". Sometimes they made it, sometimes they didn't....guess that's why we had to dig a new one every year...

This probably sounds a little grotesque, but it was just a way of life back then.