Quarantine Planning: Food

This section requires more thought than the shelter section.

ON THE PLUS SIDE:

• We have a large pantry already fairly full (enough for 2 months?)
• We have 2 freezers of food, including nearly a whole cow.
• Deer are plentiful
• Blackberries grow free and wild, and we may have fruit trees soon
• 6 chickens
• 3 cows
• Plenty of room for garden
• Cooking can be done on wood stove
  

ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE:

• We'll probably need more than 2 months of food
• Power for the freezers can only be depended upon during low severity outbreaks
• No roosters, and we haven't seen any eggs
• Garden is not deer proof
• Needing to butcher the cows assumes we haven't power for freezers. Which means that if we do butcher one, we still need to preserve it somehow, or waste the majority of it.
• No oven if we have no power

NEEDED:

6 months or more supply of hay for horses & cows

Dog & cat food

Chicken coop, with rooster, for egg collection & chicken replenishment

Greenhouse, for year round veggies

Deer proof fence around garden

More fruit trees (with deer proof enclosures)

Purchase veggie seeds

• Corn, Tomatoes, lettuce, squash, beans, peas, watermellon, cantelope,

Stock up pantry

• Dried beans
• Rice
• Sugar
• Salt
• Cooking Oil
• Canned veggies
• Canned hams, tuna, & other meat
• Flour & yeast for bread? (No oven possibly, but could we do flatbread or tortillas? - Note that yeast doesn't last forever. Perhaps we should begin sourdough starter)
• Fruit juices