>>177911Another thing you can add is knowledge of edible plants in your local area. Learn to identify them and start adding them to your meals now so you get used to how to prepare and eat them. Where I live there's tons of food outside when it isn't winter. You can also plan for winter crops. The simplest would be to plant carrots, onions, garlic, and potatoes and keep them in the ground with hay bales over them. Then dig them up when you need them in the dead of winter.
Here's a list of common edible stuff where I'm from,
Wild Onion (Allium bisceptrum)
Common Burdock (Arctium minus)
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Lamb's quarters (Chenopodium album & Chenopodium berlandieri)
Brambles (Rubus sp.)
Currants and Gooseberries (Ribes sp.)
Blueberries and Cranberries (Vaccinium sp.)
Sheep Sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
Chickweed (Stellaria media)
Red Clover (Trifolium pretense)
Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
Common Plantain (Plantago major)
Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Common Cattail (Typha latifolia)
Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
American Elderberry (Sambucus Canadensis)
Wild Rose (Rosa sp.)
Amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexus)
Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum)
Common Camas (Camassia quamash)
Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Violets (Viola ...)
Quickweed (Galinsoga quadriradiata)
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
Mint (Mentha ...)
Common Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius)
Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
Western Dock (Rumex occidentalis)
Curly Dock (Rumex crispus)
Cow Parsnip (Heracleum lanatum)
Bull Thistle (Circium vulgare)
Common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
Common Yellow Woodsorrel (Oxalis stricta)
Black Mustard (Brassica nigra)
White mustard (Sinapis alba, aka Brassica alba)
