Planning my 2025 garden with tariffs and deportations in mind? [View all]

I was just freezing the last of my sweet peppers, and started to think how Trump's tariffs and immigration deportations would affect what's on store shelves next year. If he does everything he promised to do, a lot of fresh produce will be hard to find or expensive a year from now. I'm in Minnesota, so if I want vegetables for half the year, they're either imported, canned or frozen.

So, I'm going through my typical crops with that in mind. I already grow 1000 sq ft of garden, but I can easily double or triple that. I can can a lot more produce. I can grow a lot more peppers and freeze them. I have a dehydrator I rarely use, but I might fire that up a lot more. Squash vines can be planted between my apples, pears, peaches and plums, freeing up garden space. Hell, winter squash can be planted everywhere in my yard, and what we can't eat, the chickens will devour all winter.

The state land near me is filled with wild grapes I can make jelly out of just like Grandma did. It also has huge patches of puffball mushrooms that are edible when young. It's too crowded to hunt there during shotgun deer season, but archery season is long and less pressure. Crossbows are legal, aren't expensive anymore, and easier to shoot than bows. And Minnesota allows both spring and fall turkey season. I haven't shot anything bigger than rabbits in the past 5 yr, but might take it up again.

Anyone else making similar plans, or is my doomsday prepper mentality spiralling out of control again? What vegetables are you prioritizing?