Growing your own food a great relatively inexpensive way to start preparing now for a future catastrophe. Planting fruit and nut producing trees now ensures you will have access to tree species now that you might not have access to when the catastrophe hits.
Also getting an early start will allow your trees to grow larger now so they will be producing more food when the SHTF.
Fruit and nut trees each have specific needs such as climate, soil, water and pollination requirements that need to be considered when planting/acquiring is about to occur.
So, you need to understand the needs of each tree in addition to the benefits they can provide.
Everyone thinks of vegetable gardens when thinking about growing their own food, but the use of food producing trees is often overlooked, despite the special benefits they offer.
No need to replant every single year
Fruit and nut trees are not as picky about soil conditions
Harvested fruit and nuts are usually able to be preserved
Typically less maintenance required
In the list on the left, there is detailed information on different fruit and nut trees that you should consider as a perpetual food source that you can start and use now.