Sustainability, what does it mean to you? 
To me, sustainability means keeping all of your property as close to how nature would have it be. Looking around your property, is your property sustainable? Would a black bear or a deer be able to find a safe place on your property to sleep? If the grocery stores had no food, would YOU even be able to go outdoors, to your own property and be able to find enough food for you and your famiy?? I would. I have made a habit of planting enough food and cover and browse for my family, and all of the wildlife that would like to live on my property.
Often a lot of people think that they are sustaining the planet by driving an electric vehicle, or recycling their trash. Not true. There is nothing sustainable about any of the liberal idea of green living at all. How many trees have they planted on their property in the past year? The past 50 years??
My husband and I will have been living on our property for 50 years this year. And since we moved to this property, we have consistantly planted trees, forbes, berries, shrubs and wildflowers, as well as native pants that will feed ALL of God's creatures that would choose to walk across our property.
Even people who do have a few fruit trees, and vegetable gardens, would not be able to live over a few weeks if grocery stores closed down today. Many of you during COVID discovered that very quickly. People all over couldn't find toilet paper, bread, sugar, flour, and hand sanitizer..OUCH.
I'm a bit concerned over people who are totally dependent on stores and government to make it on their own. On my property you might not even survive, cause you might not even recognize the food plants that are growing everywhere. To the untrained eye, most of what is edible on my land may appear to be weeds, woods, and rodents..Most human beings would never ever, even if they were dying, eat a mouse, squirrel, grub , ant, deer, bear, dandelion, or get their medicine from the willow shrub or barberry bush in my yard.
There are some excellent books available that you could read that would help you to recognize the foods and medicines on my property, I have a lot of those books and have collected them. But by the time the grocery stores are out of food it is too late for you to buy the books, or grow the plants, or to welcome the wildlife to your land.
Even my friends and relatives that hunt and fish, arent even likely to plant an apple tree in their own yard. A short list of a few of the food plants and animals growing every year in my yard are: Asparagus, kiwi,serviceberry, apple,chokecherrry, barberry,beech,blackberry, black raspberry, blueberry, butternut, carrot, catalpa,cattail,cherrry,chestnut,comfrey,corn,currant,dandelion, daylilly, elderberries,fat hen,filbert,frogs,garlic,chives, gooseberry, grapes, heartnut,horseradish,rhubarb,jerusalem artichoke,knotweed, malva,medlar,milkweed,motherwort, burdock root,oak,onion, parsnips,peaches,pears,plums,rabbits,raspberries,sage,thyme,wintergreen,walnut,turtles.....deer, bear, racooon, possum, etc.
That is just a few items that grow here, I also plant vegetable gardens each year, I save seeds from my plants so I don't have to go to the store to buy seeds, but I always add new seeds, plants and trees from the stores every single year. You can never have too much growing on your land. You can always preserve the extra or give it to the needy, or sell it. Or feed it to the wildlife.
I'm only trying to encourage some of you, since the covid scare....to at least start a few pots of vegetables this spring, or to plant a few fruit trees in your yard. There are really good books out there that will tell you how to prepare, eat and kill what you need to, to survive. But PLEASE at least plant a tree this year.
