It's amazing what you can start doing when you have the time. Plenty of fruit trees planted, other trees getting cut down, the garden beds getting worked over. Although, in the case of the beds, more a case of being removed to make room for more trees...
I will have to find some uses for Aloe Vera - it seems to grow happily with little maintenance. Hardly sounds particularly... Survivalist-ish, but I'm not going to disregard anything that will give us an edge in a survival situation. That's the difference between a Real Survivalist and the Sheep.
Not that I particularly like that term "Survivalist"... It puts everyone in mind of the gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' paranoids... and the sort of thing that brings attention to the fact that you are equipping to get through most problems.
If you had to suddenly face a large scale crisis, you'll know how important it is to have preparations in place. I've been fortunate to have not had to face an inner-city riot... and now, living well outside of the city (or the nearest small township) the problems with urban crowding shouldn't be as bad...
On another note, a quarter of a century after the Chernobyl meltdown, it seems the plantlife in the area is thriving. It's had to adapt, but it's thriving... Life seems to find a way.