I've been planting a lot of potatoes. I've never had much luck with them before, but I read they like sandy loam and less heat, so I have a place to try. And the spuds were all throw away, from bags that were sprouting already, if I didn't plant them.
If I do more planting I am going to concentrate on basic calorie foods, because I think those are most important to master for general preparedness (as opposed to strictly pleasure or economics).
So, the short list for that would be:
potatoes
corn
beans
squash
These are also attractive to me because they are substantially set-and-forget in terms of not being too susceptible (I hope) to pests and the large turkeys and peacocks and squirrels in the area. Other than that, I have a lot of mature fruit and nut trees which deserve some attention but mostly take care of themseles with a little water from time to time.
Oh, and fish. I have a lot of them. I would like chickens for eggs, but there are a lot of predators I don't think I can fight off effectively.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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