Crop Failure

Keep small livestock as a protein backup when crops fail

Cracked, dry farmland with withered crop stubble

#Nature 🍃 Fall

A ruined harvest hits plant crops all at once, but it doesn't automatically take out animals raised alongside them. Small livestock — a few hens for eggs, rabbits, or even bees — are a genuinely different failure mode from field crops, need much less space and feed than larger animals, and can keep producing something edible through a season your garden or fields didn't. It's not a full substitute for growing food, just a second, mostly-independent source that doesn't fail for the same reasons.

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