[MulberryGardens-Christina]

I think I started some habits of prepping 15 years ago when my husband and I were working on getting out of debt… reusing as much as I could, buying in bulk, couponing to save money… ended up with large stashes of things very cheaply. Other lessons we learned in Africa 10ish years ago… be content and make do with what you have, but when you find something useful that is available buy it now bc you don’t know when or if you’ll see it again! And we ate very basic meals for the most part that I cooked on a little gas stove in an outdoor kitchen. We washed clothes by hand… when I started prepping I thought back to what the basics were that we needed all the time in those situations.

I didn’t move beyond those habits until we moved back to my family farm in 2020.