Reply #21: Here is your task, DUers, should you choose to accept it: [View All]

Learn to grow A calorie crop suitable to your region (just one). And start growing it to get the experience under your belt. I'm not talking acres of crops, but a back yard test plot.

Examples include: wheat, oats, corn, rye, barley, millet, amaranth, quinoa (all grains); potatoes, turnips, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes (root crops).

There are others, but these come most easily to mind. You can Google them to find out everything known to man about each of them. Encyclopedia of Country Living and Small-Scale Grain Raising are excellent reference texts.

Learn how to do this before you MUST do it in order to eat. Teach someone else how to do it. Do your homework. I did it a few years ago with hard red winter wheat. If I still had my yard, I'd be trying my hand at millet, which is drought-tolerant and likes hot weather.