Food production’s always felt like the real backbone skill to me, especially when everything else goes quiet. If you can turn a patch of dirt and a handful of seeds into steady meals, that covers so many bases—nutrition, morale, even barter if things get to that point. I’ve spent years messing with heirloom seeds and learning what grows best in unpredictable weather. Not just veggies, either; knowing how to wildcraft herbs for medicine can save a lot of headaches (literally and otherwise) when supplies run dry.
Guess some folks might prioritize defense or navigation, but if you’ve got food and remedies, your little homestead becomes a lot harder to uproot in the first place. Still, I wonder—does anyone else stash seeds as a core part of their