[listenhillary]

I’m almost out far enough. I plan on maybe dropping some trees to block road access to my place and hope the looters move on to easier pickings.

If they are determined to find me, they will. The casual looter will look elsewhere.

Plant native plants that provide food, but aren’t obviously food. A well tended garden or field of grain and wheat are easy targets. Food that looks like weeds / native landscape plants will be overlooked. Make your plantings have multiple uses. Plants can be used for shade, shelter, windbreaks, water channeling, supports for other crops.

The idea is to set up food systems that require only energy to harvest with minimal energy input to maintain or provide water.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I like your ideas, but you have to be careful with the farming model you suggested. In a SHTF situation which may last for a couple of years, we can’t take chances with the food.

The best food-producing system that I have found is an aqua-ponic greenhouse. If the temperature can be maintained (if you are in a very cold zone), they would provide all the nutritious food that you would need year-round. Yes, they would be identifiable, but that’s where being remote comes in to play and that’s where being surrounded by neighbors who are a part of the system and who are looking out for you (as you are looking out for them) becomes so vital.

[Iron Munro]

I’m almost out far enough. I plan on maybe dropping some trees to block road access to my place and hope the looters move on to easier pickings.

If they are determined to find me, they will.

Good point.

The strength of a remote location is that it is more or less hidden - you hope no one knows you are there. The weakness is that once you are located, you are on your own.

If there is a path, a trail or a road sooner or later someone will follow it.
If there are signs of life, fresh cut trees, smoke in the distance, tracks and footprints they will be there sooner.

"If you can get there, others can too."

That is a qoute from this firsthand account of the SHTF collapse in 2001 Argentina:

The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse