Posted on 07/04/2015 5:13:57 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
KARITAINA, Greece (AP) — Ilias Mathes has protection against bank closures, capital controls and the slashing of his pension: 10 goats, some hens and a vegetable patch.
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If Greece's financial crisis deepens, as many believe it must, he can feed his children and grandchildren with the bounty of the land in this proud village high in the mountains of the Arcadia Peloponnese.
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Most of the population of Greece lives in a few big cities, but maybe they could move back to the deserted villages they came from, if there’s nothing left to eat in the city.
There’s probably no running water or electricity back at the old homeplace, though, and they don’t have much in the way of families to work the farm.
The last vestiges of free enterprise in Greece. Them old mountain boys know a thing or two that the Marxist city slickers don’t.
There still are some proud Greeks who are freemen and women, and intend to stay that way.
I read that as ‘be a prepper’.
A Prepper.
Growing your own food only makes sense if you can protect that food as harvest time nears. Because it’s very unlikely a hungry neighbor is going to just sit back and watch as you happily gather up your bounty.
Then he will die.
Or the government would find a way to take it away.
Of interest?
There was no money, but you could go there, pitch in with the work, and you could eat.
That's far from true in the USA today. Most of us have no farm roots whatever. Nor do we have farm skills.
Good luck to the Greeks. God bless them, it must be tough.
BTW, I'm eating my own home-grown squash with home-grown basil, chives, garlic and thyme. But I can't grow my own olive oil or parmesan cheese. :o/
...and become useful by enriching the soil.
Sooo, do we drag them away and bury them, or just leave them there as evidence of a "no-go" zone so we don't have to shoot others?
I mean, we're gonna' have to think about it eventually....
It would be uncivilized to provide them with a Christian burial..../sarc
“won it a place on the back of the 5,000 drachma bill before the Greek currency was phased out when the euro was introduced in 2002.
Some have high hopes of a return to the drachma if Greece abandons the euro.”
I guess they don’t see the irony, huh? Utter insanity to want to go to New Drachmas. What’s a 5,000 New Drachma gonna be worth, 1 Euro?
Land is the ultimate capital. Talk about your stock, bonds, derivatives, gold or any other investment and it is going to be subject to theft by the gub’mint. The right piece of land will heat your home, feed you, supply water and eliminate wastes. It will support livestock and nearly any small scale enterprise you may want to pursue. It is, in fact, the elemental life.
Moderns often forget the basics and find themselves in trouble.
Want a carrot? That’ll be . . . what’ve you got?
I’m drinking wine from a local grocery store ... and tomorrow I’ll eat some of our own tomatoes.
Our subdivision used to be a farm, and we have a few dozen acres of open space. If the neighborhood pulled together, we could probably grow enough to feed ourselves ... especially without the HOA to tell us we’re not allowed to keep livestock ... and we have plenty of defensive weapons and the people who know how to use them.
However, I don’t really want to live without electricity and running water, thanks.
I wish the Greeks the best. Someone has to be the example of a country that ran itself into the ground, and it will certainly be interesting to see how it turns out.
Do you have one of those spaghetti trees?
Solar and battries can provide some assistance against 3rd eorld conditions at home when the power goes out. Time to get familiar with what it might take to get by for a while.
Grow tomatoes for the bbq sauce because lib meat needs something to cover the funky taste.
Mount his skull on a stake by the garden gate as a deterrent.
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