Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don’t know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I was going to say hydroponic rice. It grows so quick and if anything happens it’s back up in 7 days.

    The problem with corn is that it takes so long to grow that you get a wealth spike when harvesting it and if anything happens to the harvest you can be at risk of starvation.

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      1 year ago

      The trick is to always keep roughly a year worth of corn stored, and only sell off the excess.

      After the initial ‘getting the base running’ I usually pay merchants that accept it in corn, up to the amount where they end up giving me all their silver on top of what I wanted to buy.