My own ideas of some kind of post-collapse survival 'home'...money not being an object when setting it up...involves a few very small quasi raised bed areas enclosed in something like hardware cloth in different locations (all eggs not in one basket), some minimal rabbit operation (growing what I feed them, and using their dung), but a key component of my approach would be something like what you find with Freight Farms (google it).
- In insulated cargo container; Year round and 24 hour production - high yield; Vertically arranged within for less footprint requirement; Hydroponic - efficient water use and little water loss; LED lights of only blue and red spectrum - very low electricity requirement; Pest problems almost eliminated.
This, and other features, of course only works as part of the bigger system (which has intrinsic resiliency too)...the basic water strategy, replacement solar panels, replacement LED lights, other back-up options for this and that, passive ways to use the Earth's regulating temperature for various things, a multi-option approach to preserving surplus, blah blah blah.
And all of this, even with the fact that how I'd do it would be quite small and uncomplicated compared to actual farming homes today or what it sounds like, just to sustain a handful of folks with reasonable reliability - only foraging? Think twice about it.
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