My wife and I are becoming as self sufficent as we can. We are buying land, I am starting a small farm, we grow our own food, building a root cellar, try and make everything we can because 1) we feel our, ahem... "free market" system has turned into a morally deplorable system and we want to be independent from it as much as possible, and 2) we don't know how much longer it will be around anyway. I was just wondering how many other homebrewers are thinking that tasty brew will make an excellent means of exchange when TSHTF, and brew there own to get away from the system of economic slavery we are currently under. Alcohol consumption goes up during times of civil unrest.
) That is only a statement partly in jest, some truth to it. But I do think about it. We have 10 acres, a creek with fish behind our house, wild turkeys, deer, rabbits, groundhogs, birds, snakes, frogs, etc. available to us and we grow a lot of vegetables that last through winter, not all vegetables in that quantity though. We will be buying chickens and goats soon too. We have a well but that requires electricity. We have a wood burning stove but not enough trees to cut down to sustain us. Lots of problems not to mention legal and things like taxes. But I do often wonder how long I could survive if I had to on my own.
