Finally getting girlfriend to believe! | General Homesteading Discussion | Forums

She's always been pretty suspect of "prepping," but I've always spun it to her in a way that's not paranoid about SHTF or other scenarios. My position has been rooted in the idea that we need to get big corps out of our food supply, use old, traditional recipes for cooking, and eat things that I know are free of harmful chemicals and processing. I explain to her that stockpiling food is more for natural disasters like earthquakes or Volcanic eruption than it is for societal collapse (I really don't stockpile that much, have like a 6 week supply of food.) My gun collection (which she hates) is for fun, not for protection & defense.

She's an ER doctor, so bugging out probably isn't in the cards for her.

However, lately, she's been reading up on GM foods and a bunch of research on the downstream effects of certain medications etc. She started asking me questions like: Do you know where to get things like Organic Flour? How hard is it to bake your own bread? What's the best way to preserve your raspberries?

So, she's starting to believe in the concept of taking control of your own food sources, and finding alternatives to pharmaceutical solutions to health problems. She's even hinted that she may want me to stay at home to build an organic style farm and raise the kids.

Do you guys have any research along these lines that I can pass along to her?