Anonymous
I’ve lived in Louisiana for nearly all of my 42 years, moved from the country to the city and now to podunk, evacuated from numerous hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, Gustav, George, etc.) and a 1,000 year flood. I was introduced to prepping at an early age, but didn’t get the “prepping bug” until 9-11. My husband (of 7 years) and I moved out to a rural-ish area 4.5 years ago, population 1,653, in the town 4 miles away. We have around 5.25 acres of land, containing a 1.5 acre stocked pond (we LOVE to fish!!!!), in an already established home. We know a handful of our awesome close-but-not-too-close older neighbors, and have built trust, a community, network with them. My husband and I are working on becoming more self-sufficient (planting fruit bearing bushes and trees, gardening, expanding our pond, looking into ways to convert the electric water well on our property [used to pump water into the pond] into a means to serve it and switch to manual water for emergency purposes, and researching going off grid, among other things.) I look forward to more posts on here, so I may learn more from all of you!