Winter Farming Question

[kalos72]

I need some help.

I am having issues with the time line and making a Staten Island NY campaign work in the opening days of my campaign. My story line drops my group in NYC in Nov and needs to prepare for a larger military force to drop by end of Febuary or so.

I am trying to figure out how to feed a division landing in NYC come spring. Fishing of course but I need farms up and running come spring for food as well as fuel.

I was thinking the PC's could build "square foot farming" cold boxes, have a heating cord (wouldnt this just need to be a power cord under a simple metal half pipe or soemthing?) run under the soil powered by a bicycle. These boxes would be inside out of the elements. Could that sort of condition be possible to grow in?

I am trying to resolve the issue with a division landing in Spring and not getting any produced food until fall. How do I feed them for 3-4 months while my crops are growing? Hehe...

I am not looking for, other alternatives, as I am aware of most of the other options since I have been involved in this topic before on the board but more so how I could prepare Staten Island for the landing of a division size force come spring and have food production in progress.

[Cdnwolf]

Any abandon wharehouses or airplane hangers? Or the upper floors of apartment buildings? Just need to keep the temperature above 10C and plenty of light.

[kalos72]

Yes places to keep them out of the cold and in sunlight are there. Plus you can make the boxes mobile, in at night...out in the sun during the day.

[Legbreaker]

My guess is that fields in Europe were harvested just before the ships left. Therefore it's entirely possible the first six months food stocks for the evacuated soldiers was brought with them. This many also help explain why the enclaves did not begin to move as a whole until spring/early summer 2001.

I just can't see anyone giving up the crops they'd toiled over without making any effort to take the produce with them. Leaving it there would be a waste as with roughly 50k people gone, there's the possibility of an oversupply in Germany. This could cause further upheavals as civilians rush from the homes and shanties they'd occupied for the past several years in a desperate effort to secure their own little peice of paradise.

[kalos72]

Ok so how they are fed during the trip back and for the interim in Norfolk is clear.

Ok so the unit is fed for 6 months, but once they land in NYC, during winter, they will need to wait another 3-4 months until the next crops are ready for harvest yes?

So that means I need to start growing food, during winter in NYC to feed the unit after the initial 6 month supply runs out.

I know crap all bout farming, can you feasible plant crops in January in NYC, keeping them in cold boxes with a heating element, out of the elements and expect a decent yield come March/April? Would that technique work?

[Targan]

My suggestion consists of two words - Rat Farming.