Preppers who just stockpile canned food to survive are unlikely to survive a long collapse. If the grid goes down from an EMP attack or solar flare, or a real pandemic hits, it could be several years before food production and distribution gets established again. If a worldwide collapse, no foreign nations will be sending us food. You need to be in a survivable location, with great defenses, and be able to garden/hunt/forage and produce your own food locally, not just stockpile food. Chickens and sustainable gardening of high calorie crops are the real key to surviving a long collapse with good food. This is the Fortitude Ranch plan for food and long-term survival.

Fortitude Ranch’s food survival plan includes every possible source of calories and nutrition. Beyond stockpiled rice, beans, flour, sugar and shelf stable foods, we have high calorie/energy “SOS” survival bars, farm animals, gardening, fruit trees, and will hunt and forage for additional food. Not the normal sportsman like hunting, but exploiting our large numbers of members and staff to do sweep hunting, herding all varieties of wildlife towards stationary shooters. Our rural locations have a wide variety of wildlife, FR WI has lakefront fishing, and many other FR locations have ponds or streams to raise or catch wild fish. Fruit trees on our property, plus wild, foraged nuts and berries are great not just for calories, but a more varied diet and nutrients. Even acorns and prickly pear cactus are edible with calories, if you know how to safely prepare them. Every place has edible bugs that cooked, ground up, and added to stew or soup (i.e. not noticeable or offensive to eat) provides not just more calories for survival, but health benefits from their high levels of vitamin B12, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and antioxidants.