jy8z-well stated.
I grew up in a rural farm community during the carter(spit) years. The seventies sucked economically speaking. Our family of five was more or less broke. Dad had a good job and Mom took care of the kids but the there were times when the summer garden kept us fed. My mom was a genius at turning broke food into good meals. Canning, freezing, making jelly out of wild fruit and berries... yeah my Momma did all that. My dad wasn’t much for hunting (it was a Vietnam thing) but my uncle made sure we had a deer almost every year.
Please do not presume that a garden is not a “dependable source of food”. It is way more useful and practical than a lot of other skills or hobbies.
>>I grew up in a rural farm community during the carter(spit) years. The seventies sucked economically speaking. Our family of five was more or less broke. Dad had a good job and Mom took care of the kids but the there were times when the summer garden kept us fed. My mom was a genius at turning broke food into good meals. Canning, freezing, making jelly out of wild fruit and berries... yeah my Momma did all that. My dad wasn’t much for hunting (it was a Vietnam thing) but my uncle made sure we had a deer almost every year.<<
And yet, I and 99% of Americans survived the carter era with no garden at all.
As I said — gardening and hunting are a great supplement, but we can’t shift our economy back to an agrarian one. It ain’t gonna happen
“Please do not presume that a garden is not a “dependable source of food”. It is way more useful and practical than a lot of other skills or hobbies.”
Oh I dunno, I personally think the watermelons and cucumbers imported from Guatemala will be a dependable source should the world start going to heck. /s
A high percentage of the produce in the stores isn’t grown locally or even in the US.