Most every state has an extension service through one of its universities. For instance our extension office is ran through the university of Arkansas. Texas' extension service is through Texas A and M.

How many of you are in contact with your local county extension office? Extension homemakers? Master gardener's club? They are a wealth of knowledge on being more self sufficient.

Their normal focus is on educating children but welcome adults to participate as well. Either with a 4H group or by joining the homemakers or master gardner clubs themselves.

They do not focus on prepping in any way but they will teach you how to garden and preserve your harvest. so essentially they are doing the same thing without the name.

Something that might warrant a little research and possibly teach us all something new. Or rather something old that has been lost to our current generation.