In the yard- apples, plums, cherries, chokecherries, crab apples, pine trees, sugar maples, birch, queen anne’s lace in ditch, wild asparagus, rose hips, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, currants, wintergreen, lambs quarters, purslane, plantain, dandelions,herbs and medicinal herbs. Locally- wild strawberries, blueberries, serviceberries, beechnuts if I could beat the squirrels to them, mountain ash berries, cattails, mushrooms, reindeer moss. For meat- mourning doves, wild turkeys. grouse, geese and ducks, deer and small animals. I don’t know what all is in season but in survival mode things would be different. I once cooked a bear for a potluck and people said they were hungry enough to eat a bear but thought they were eating beef. A local lady I know ate ground hog and a few people have eaten beaver. When SHTF you can’t be too picky. Still, don’t want to think about bugs yet but crickets and grasshoppers are edible. I remember a movie about people in a lifeboat and a boy had a dog in the raft that someone wanted to toss out and someone else said “we could eat him but we can’t eat you” and the guy shut up.
Some of the above are plentiful and some rather sparse.I have eaten reindeer moss fried in butter and it just tasted like butter. There are morels, honey mushrooms, turkey tails and puffballs that I know of. In the garden- this year not so much but I usually grow potatoes, tomatoes (that’s hard up here) green beans, peas, broccoli, kale, onions, (have leeks and chives in flower garden and a ton of peppermint) spinach and lettuce. Also kohlrabi and squash & cukes. As for the garden I often bite off more than I can chew. Have to work on doing it all more efficiently.
Forgot to mention we also have brook trout and other fish. We have a creek right by the house.
Can’t think of what else right now but this is a good challenge. Will have to pay even more attention. Grains would be more difficult to come by and I would need to can foods when they were in season. I do that to some extent now. I like purslane, lambs quarters and dandelion buds in salad. I need to focus on collecting weed seeds to have a stash. Haven’t made ersatz coffee yet but teas would be a logical and easy choice.
One thing- illegal, but you can stun fish with mullein seeds and pick them up. Indians used to do it. Hungry enough and frogs and turtles could be on the menu. I’ve never cooked them yet.