Episode 3. Where did Nick Offerman got food and gas to run his generators for 20 years?

canned food doesn't spoil unless the cans weren't properly sterile, and then they swell. They might not taste as good though. Also, I've eaten dried military rations from Vietnam not that long ago when backpacking.

Dude, you're dumber than i even first thought. A: solar panels were plenty affordable already in the early 80's and commonly used. I know, because im born in the mid 70's. The apocalypse in the series was set to be in 2013 when solar panels are very easily obtainable. To be honest i dont understand why he didnt seem to have any panels set up. B: what they cost doesnt matter after the apocalypse; they're free for grabs. C: canned foods, non perishables like rice, pasta, flour, grain etc have almost infinite shelf life if stored correctly. In the army we ate field rations that were a decade older than ourselves without any ill effect. D; he hunted animals and grew vegetables. E; he was in an evacuated zone where everyone else had been moved or killed by the army. So he had plenty of time to set this all up, and he was well armed and able to fight of scavengers if and when they would come. You seem like a clueless boy with little to no real life experience.

He maintained them.

Nope. You are just trying to justify bad writing.

"power plants like where he got his generator have ample amounts of spare parts" - sure, but not in a small town with a hundred people.

Also engine oil shelf life is 5 years, after that it starts to change it's properties, in 20 years it would fuck up the generator.

"As for growing crops: no they don't waste time showing each and every kind of food he grows." it's enough to show some. They didn't. Just one carrot and some strawberries.

They don't have to show EVERYTHING. A 10 seconds scene with them in some crops would had been enough. Or just a quick add to their conversation at the table during lunch.

You're forgetting that he has a lot of time on his hands. He's also a prepper. Well equipped, knowledgable, armed and prepared for this kind of situation. And all the farm equipment and seeds that he needs is free.

Excuse me but a friend of mine's parents were farmers and they had a hobby vegetable garden on the side where they grew 50-75% of what they ate! (with several potato varieties). Granted they had a storage barn for those potatoes but a cellar will do. And they had plenty of time for that! And they did not even have a greenhouse, which would provide plenty of additional options.

Also, keeping livestock and chickens for personal use is a long standing tradition in many countries still. (Chickenfeed from bred maggots works like a charm)
As for storage, they had electricity so freezing, canning, drying, smoking will go a long way with stretching the harvest over winter. As for grains, foraging the countryside could yield one or two harvests of pre-collapse fields. Those could last years and years under a nitrogen
saturated atmosphere in a silo (nitrogen can be obtained and also produced fairly easily)

"They are ready for few weeks in summer then they stop growing and you have to wait another 10 months for fresh tomatoes to grow again. And those you cut - they wont stay fresh more then 2 weeks. You have to eat them or they will rot."

I live in Scotland with a short growing season. My yard wasn't great so my tomatoes never ripened even by the end of summer. I took them inside and they'd keep growing. They would slow down in winter by I was getting fruit still ripening in those months.

Their climate doesn't look like they could grow year round but they could grow stuff inside and it would be reasonable given the resources that Bill had.

Tomatoes and cucumbers / squashes etc can also be preserved / canned / dried / pickled.

"What you need is to grow is potatoes and then you need to know how to storage them in cold place."

That's not hard. If the ground frosts then harvest them, then store them in a container with soil or sand covering them. Store those in a cool place like a garage. It's not hard. If the place doesn't freeze then you can just dig up batches periodically. This can be done for a bunch of root crops (but not all). They can be processed differently to make them last. Potatoes can be dried and powdered, carrots can be dehydrated.

For places with light frost or mild winters, some crops hold well in the ground with minimal or no protection. I still have some greens in the garden that survived this winter with no protection. It was colder this year and normally I have a much higher survival rate.

For someone more prepared or with the knowhow, build a root cellar.

You don't necessarily need to grow corn or cereals. There's stuff like root crops, legumes, stuff close to cereals and depending on the climate you can grow bananas, taros, breadfruit (probably not possible in the climate shown in the episode).

True. I'm just thinking of the population in terms of human intervention, whether that be hunting or car impacts. Looking it up, one million deer are hit by cars each year.

To be fair though, without humans, would predators like wolves and mountain lions move back into their natural habitat and keep a check on the deer and other animals? Also, escapes from zoos could totally screw up our natural eco system.