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Plaidbeard89 wrote

Oddly enough, you can just walk right up to it. If you really want to be super duper prepared you can just order some of what they have and bring it with you. Here's the link: https://www.nativeseeds.org While it is in Tuscon, it's not that bad of a trip across the desert. 6ish hours by car or 5 days on foot from the Grand Canyon. Anyway, my main idea is to go full permaculture, based on what the Hopi say about how those native plants grow best, but I'm also planning to keep another group of crops growing hydroponically as a little bit of insurance, juuuuust in case we can't grow quite enough the good old fashioned way.

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Plaidbeard89 wrote

Easier still is raising ducks and potatoes. All you need to keep ducks fed is duckweed, and all that needs to grow is any size pond and lots of piss.

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Plaidbeard89 wrote

Lol I mean, they stick around if there's food and a place to sleep. Those happy little bastards don't care what goes on around them. Plus, I would just keep them mostly for eggs and poopy to grow the rest of my crops.

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ziq wrote

I started with 2 ducks and they bred and now I have 10. I'd have more if some of them hadn't flown away. They don't sit on the eggs until they've finished laying a full clutch, so if you take them, they just keep laying until they hit that number (6-10).

I trade the eggs or feed them to my dogs.

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ziq wrote

I have pet ducks. They're great at pest control.

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ziq wrote

Idk about that. They'll tear through a lettuce in no time.

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