Long term self sustaining food and water plans?

[Rust_shackleford]

You'll need a green house

Taters, carrots, lettuce, spinach, radish's, broccolli, strawberry's, peas, and in the green house maters, cukes, beans, and whatever else I can.
Have a plum tree, and an apple tree, both blooming.
Deer are a problem so have to fence your open garden and your fruit trees.

[King]

Ive seen wild raspberries in the mountains so I know those will grow. What about some livestock? My parents have chickens. Very low maintenance and they pop eggs out daily.

[Irving]

Sure raspberries grow in the mountains, but how much sustenance will they really provide for you?
I've eaten wild raspberries, and I tell you what, they were pretty delicious, and I wasn't scrounging around for food, near starving to death. I can only imagine how wonderful they'd taste if I were short on food.

[King]

Your definitely right, they probably wont sustain life for long. I was just adding to what others have mentioned as to what will grow.

[MED]

You'll need a green house

My wife put out a tomato plant this year much to my fun poking at the futility of doing so...it was dead in a week. My house sits just under 9,000ft. I plan to build a greenhouse with solar power for the fall when temps drop below freezing.