Eating Locally Year Round

I'm glad to see articles like this one: Learn how to can foods

If you garden for food or shop in bulk at farmers markets, you can enjoy the bounty all year long by canning fruit, vegetables, seafood and meat.

Learn how through "Preserving the Harvest," a series of summer workshops through the Washington State University Snohomish County Extension, now accepting registrations.

I would obtain equipment for food preservation (including canning equipment) now, while the economy is somewhat intact and such things can be still relatively easily found. Acquiring a canner after economic collapse has occurred and after it has become blindingly obvious to everyone why one would be needed is going to be extremely difficult.