Greta is so sweet and kind ...
😁
Posted on 03/17/2026 6:50:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Most Americans can’t imagine their favorite restaurant just being out of certain foods. But the threat is closer than we think.
It is difficult to imagine that the mighty United States could face threats to its seemingly abundant supply of grocery store and restaurant offerings. America has led the world in creating the modern industrial food system (known as “the Green Revolution”) and remains the world’s top food-exporting nation. Yet economic and logistical fractures have become visible, threatening to burst this illusion of plenty in a matter of moments.
America’s farms have been quietly disappearing for decades, and productive farmland acreage has dropped in tandem. The U.S. now imports more food than it exports, much of that from China. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of strained supply lines as grocery shelves emptied of more than mere toilet paper. Americans clamor for cheap hamburger, but the U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in 75 years. These are all harbingers of future food supply challenges.
The farmer revolts in the E.U. are distant from America’s shores, but they reflect ongoing ideological pressures by globalists determined to dominate the world’s food production system. The odd bedfellows of animal rights activists and climate alarmists who attack farmers in Europe gather annually at Davos to declaim human eating habits. Both groups seek to “liberate” animals from the food supply: one to save the animals (and leave them unalived, because they will disappear); the other to save the world...from alleged climate change and the ubiquitous carbon culprit.
As I explain in my new book, The Coming Food Crisis: How Corporations, Activists, and Climate Alarmists Are Waging War on Farmers, the United States is not immune to these pressures. Indeed, the U.S. has already embraced the GMO-dependent industrial agriculture system being thrust upon
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I had a 1950 Farmall model A with a crank start my father rebuilt like new that nearly took my arm off more than once, but I hauled a lot of logs out of the woods with it, and tilled the garden and had a log splitter that worked off of the pto. It would split anything. The tractor was a workhorse. I ended up giving it to my son, too much trouble for me to start anymore.
We have a Monthly Garden Thread right here on Free Republic. This month we are talking about Victory Gardens; their HISTORY and why they will always be important.
Come join us!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4368828/posts
We are all green on "St. Paddy's Day"!
...if you're not, you will be.
“””””For us it would be a long time before we starved or even went hungry. Plenty of good fishing around, plenty of venison and other game, and fresh or frozen or canned veggies from our garden.”””””
When I see people in that great situation I always want to mention to them that they should still invest in a few hundred pounds of long term storage wheat and a couple of high quality grinders, along with bulk salt and sugar for years worth of canning, a couple of hundred pounds of stored rice would also be really nice to flesh out the meals of all the meats and vegetables you have.
This year I am seeing seed sell faster than ever at my local Walmart. I’m usually there once a week. Most displays are looking skimpy already, or flat sold-out. FOOD seed; flowers seed displays are still very full. Flower bulbs, tubers and corms don’t seem to be selling. The focus is again on food.
Which is a sign that people are going back to gardening, pretty much like 2020 when we were all LIED TO about Covid-BS19, but many panicked anyway.
People are keeping laying hens and buying chicks in record numbers at Farm & Fleet and Tractor Supply.
We, personally, grow out a steer every 18 months and use it ourselves and sell some. We bought a full hog last fall from the neighboring farm. We have a dairy farm right over the hill, and a horse farm next to us for transportation if it comes down to no fuel. ;) Beau is a seasoned hunter and fisherman. (Bear, Elk, Deer, Moose) He makes Maple Syrup for us, though it is a down year with our early warm up, and then a BLIZZARD. Ugh!
I’m expanding both my strawberry bed and asparagus bed this coming spring. I am concentrating on useful edibles: Tomatoes, Green Beans, sweet and hot Peppers and Herbs. Potatoes and carrots and onions are dirt-cheap in Wisconsin, so I don’t bother growing those - but I can and have and will again if need be.
We have small fruits (strawberries, rhubarb, honey berry) and apple, pear, peach and cherry trees.
And I’m not doing this in a panic - I’m doing this because I love to garden and I love having a full pantry of food for me and mine.
If you are so inclined to grow your own food note that there is a learning curve...so get busy TODAY! :)
Have to be to eat at one.
Then there is this: vast areas of the country are dealing with ongoing drought conditions.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
tables.
We need to be storing our own grain, raising our own cattle and fruit and vegetables.
And once you find out what the fish are feed, you will never touch tilapia again!
We could last for quite some time. Biggest problem I see would be from those who would like to see to take what we have for theirs.
While you can turn them on a dime by steering with independent brakes, those tricycles are dangerous. I’ve lost friends when I was young when they rolled over.
I have an old John Deere B with a hand clutch and petcock valves for starting. They are workhorses.
Bkmk
BIL drove a rendering truck during COVID in Iowa. Farmers were killing pigs by the thousands due to markets being closed. If you new a farmer, you could get a hog on the cheap. They require a controlled environment, feed and stay within market weight for slaughter. He said one farmer had loaded their hogs into a confined building, raised the heat and fired up 3 or 4 engines to carbon monoxide them.
Greta is so sweet and kind ...
🤢🤢🤢 🤮🤮🤮
😄😃🤣🤣🤣😉🙃🙃🙃
Greta is so sweet and kind ...
😁
(Frozen green beens from Egypt)
Well of course...Food Pyramid 😉😉😉
😄😃😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣
Hope the Green Beans were as
good as Mummy made them 🙃🙃🙃
Green Beans for Desert? 🏜️🏜️🏜️
But Green Beans must have a little onion 🧅
and most importantly, bacon 🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓
At least they found their inner peas
I’ll stop bean so dramatic!
Tell Greta my name is Mr. Laz A. Mataz
And that I love 💕 ♥️🥰💓 how
she sings Swedish Death Metal
It’s so inspiring! 😍😍😍
https://youtu.be/1kD1zubg3cA?si=lXt-AVx4ft7wghVc
Haha, poor Greta is the meme that keeps on giving 👍
Yeah!!
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I almost flipped the Farmall pulling a log through the woods. The log caught on a rock and the front wheels came up until I got my wits and cut back on the throttle. The tractor was on about a 45 degree angle. Scared the crap out of me.
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