Buy seeds for staple crops and learn basic farming techniques. You just need a handful of potatoes to make a lot more potatoes, and humans can subsist on potatoes almost indefinitely.
Although you can survive (just about) in the short to medium term on exclusively potatoes (if you have both white and sweet varieties) as they contain all your essential amino acids, you’re going to develop some serious vitamin deficiencies and you’re also considerably more likely to develop diabetes.
You also need quite a lot of potatoes, which needs quite a lot of space, and good storage as you’ll only get a few crops in a season and they deplete the soil quite quickly so without the ability to rotate crops (which takes much, much more land) or some other way to reintroduce nutrients to the soil your yields will collapse after a year or two.
Also, without machinery, farming is incredibly labour intensive so I hope you can get your neighbours on board!
Buy seeds for staple crops and learn basic farming techniques. You just need a handful of potatoes to make a lot more potatoes, and humans can subsist on potatoes almost indefinitely.
Although you can survive (just about) in the short to medium term on exclusively potatoes (if you have both white and sweet varieties) as they contain all your essential amino acids, you’re going to develop some serious vitamin deficiencies and you’re also considerably more likely to develop diabetes.
You also need quite a lot of potatoes, which needs quite a lot of space, and good storage as you’ll only get a few crops in a season and they deplete the soil quite quickly so without the ability to rotate crops (which takes much, much more land) or some other way to reintroduce nutrients to the soil your yields will collapse after a year or two.
Also, without machinery, farming is incredibly labour intensive so I hope you can get your neighbours on board!