Urban living

[HunterNurturer]

As one of those city dwellers who plans to bug in (out of necessity due to family disability), this is stuff I put a lot of focus on.
I can hunt, been learning and practising various traps (harder than they look!), storing seeds and learning about growing (post SHTF, I won't be confined to my garden - I would be planting in abandoned neighbours homes, nearby fields etc. The average Brit wouldn't recognise a potato plant to save their lives), have a couple of books on foraging and have been learning to recognise wild food sources most people wouldn't think twice about. Never been fishing in my life though, so been trawling the local carboot for cheap fishing gear to get me started.

When SHTF the bird feeders that attract birds and squirrels into my garden will come in handy - as I'm sat at the window with an air rifle. I plan to supplement my food storage with wild foods from day 1 to stretch the stores out as long as possible. I'm also looking into breeding rabbits.

Water would be mostly relying on storage and rainwater/hale/snow, but there's a reasonably large stagnant source 100 yards away from my home through light woodland (I live at the very edge of a small city) that the few locals that know about it probably wouldn't touch, but should be fine after filtering and boiling. Then I can reach an out-of-the-way section of a canal a mile from my home with a route mostly along the hedges on the edges of fields, but that's naturally a last resort.

Still early days, but I feel like I'm on the right track. With enough food storage combined with the above, the main issue left would be security, and I'm thinking hard about the practicalities of turning my home into a greyman urban fortress