That is really exciting that you are further out where you have access to water, wood and wild life! My first thoughts for you are things like gardening, wild gardening and indoor sprout gardening for winter. You sound like you have plenty of access to protein foods (deer, fish, etc.), so plants, berries and other wild plants would help round out your food supply and nutrition. I think it was Blast or someone here that posted this site: http://hwwff.cce.cornell.edu/learning.php?unit=3

That is great that you have apple trees too! Do you have any other fruit trees, or a good place to garden?

If you already know a lot about plant life, etc. then you can ignore this. If not, then you might want to be sure you have some books on hand to help you in times of need. Make sure you have garden seeds and books on edible plants for your area. Even if you don't have time to learn it right now, at least you will have it if needed. One gardening method I really like is Lasagna Gardening. Here is a website on it: http://ourgardengang.tripod.com/lasagna_gardening.htm One advantage to lasagna gardening is that it is a no dig method.

For your long winters I suggest you have some sprouting seeds on hand and a good book on how to sprout them. Again, if you or your wife already know how to sprout, then you can ignore this. But it is a great way to make sure you have live greens in the winter if you get snowed in or for long term emergency. You can use jars if you don't want to buy a sprouting kit. Some fresh sprout salads in the winter would be great!

This is my favorite site on sprouting: http://www.sproutpeople.com/index.html

You might want to make sure you have some vitamins for the long winter too, like Vitamin D. It isn't very expensive, so it should be easy to buy several. If you do get some, only get Vit. D3 (Cholecalciferol - http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/).

Those are the first things that come to my mind. If I think of anything else I will post them later.

Joy