Still thinking about this one. I’m thinking of permaculture and garden plants hiding in plain sight. Thinking of having a garden that looks like a garden so that most people would think that’s it, but making other plantings that are not so easy to spot. Also plant edible weeds that most people would have no idea you could eat (but not have it looking like a garden. Time to collect weed seeds is now.
Also kind of have the same idea as crowbar- in this area some people could band together at least to some extent and help one another- have group meetings to solve group problems but still not let everyone know everything, only very trusted few. This place is sparsely populated enough that we all know who the nuts and most of the problem people are. Of course in times like that difficult, ordinary people can become problem people. Everywhere drugs are prevalent and a lot of people think the world owes them a living- a lot of that here too.