Mad Max never seemed so near at hand. With ballooning inflation and looming food shortages, people are facing potentially hazardous futures. “Experts” and world leaders are calling it a “transition.” Into what, they don’t say, but it looks bad.
Like many even-keeled Americans, though, Becky and Cam Porter from northwest Arkansas are transitioning on their own terms, weathering the storm by getting off the grid and growing their own food.
They’re not fully decoupled yet, but the 52-acre homestead they bought in 2020 now puts them way ahead of the curve, not to mention food on the table.
The Porters dubbed their transition “Our journey to radical self-sufficiency,” though inflation and food shortage was not their initial impetus. It started with the levelheaded realization that industrialized food processes of mega corporations were harming Becky’s health….