Posted on 05/13/2021 5:16:36 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
This year...I'm going to stock up NOW on can goods at least...soups, tuna, beans, sauce, macaroni etc etc....quick meals for one.
>Bugging out is fine, if you get to a place not already too terribly used as a destination by others.
As long as you’re half a days walk from urban centers, you’ve gotten rid of half the problem.
The other half is then judging those you do meet.
“The doctors who mocked anti-vaxxers are now dying from the vaccines, and those oblivious masses who mocked preppers will soon be silenced, because many of them will be dead.”
And yet, STILL voting Socialist Democrat! ;)
Fortunately, We have enough heirlooms for this year and next, and we do save our seeds from what we grow each year. Plus any unused seeds from prior years.
Corn doesn’t do well after 2 years, but some things will do ok even as long as 5 years after the date on the envelope.
While hybrids are not ideal for seed saving, you will still get something from their seeds, if you save them. You might get something more like one of the “parents or grandparents” instead of the hybrid.
If hybrids were all I could get, I’d get them just in case.
Our grocery generally has one or two heirloom type tomatoes in the produce section or heirloom peppers - I generally save some of those seeds too, if we happen to buy them.
I didn’t have any tomatoes indoors this winter, so we sometimes picked up some romas or slicing tomatoes.
I’m too old for that now.
However I do know where the deer live not far from here.
“There are still plenty of seeds left in the stores around here, but most of them are hybrid.”
Was at Farm & Fleet yesterday, and I noticed the same thing. Either they were ahead of the game and ordered more than last year, or people who gardened last year gave up already. I saw both hybrid and heirlooms available.
Though canning supplies are still spotty everywhere I’ve looked.
Go figure!
I have had success ‘waking up’ tomato seed that was 10-12 years old.
The last estimate of corn carryover from 2020 I saw was 1,500,000,000 bushels. This year’s crop should come in at about 16,000,000,000 bushels.
Whether or not the American People can halt and reverse it--and whether or not enough Americans have the intellectual and moral clarity to do it--remains to be seen.
Everything else, not so much.
The old Y2K Rule of Thumb for choosing a safe location was that you needed to be more than a full tank of gas away from any urban area. GOPee Delenda Est!
If this actually happens, some people will not be missed.
“Corn doesn’t do well after 2 years, but some things will do ok even as long as 5 years after the date on the envelope.”
Rule of thumb - the SMALLER the seed, the longer it usually keeps its viability.
So, learn to love lettuce, radishes, carrots, kale... :)
Want a ‘seed’ that lasts pretty much forever? Find yourself a Coconut! (Fibrous, one-seeded dupe.)
Hard to grow to maturity in Wisconsin though, and not much return for your effort. ;)
If Solzhenitsyn said this, no wonder he was accused of anti-Semitism. Shame on him for blotting his otherwise brilliant work.
I always wonder why all these "Jewish Bolsheviks" supported the Arabs?
Did anyone else see the name of the author and let out an “Aw man....!”?
During the current Colonial pipeline shutdown and outage, we have to deal with the complexities of everyday life :
" Meanwhile, Michigan Governor Whitmer is attempting to close another pipeline that serves Northern states,
demonstrating that pipeline shutdowns are part of an engineered collapse of America’s industrial infrastructure."
"If this deliberate shutdown plan continues, many people will face famine this summer as America plunges into chaos and desperation.
It’s all by design, of course, as the radical Marxists who stole the election are working their way through a checklist to destroy America from within.
"As I discuss in today’s Situation Update podcast — which has a particularly doomsday ring to it — after experiencing the supply line shortages of 2020,
anyone who isn’t yet a prepper in 2021 is essentially committing themselves to death.
I ask the question, “How can everyone NOT be a prepper in 2021 after living through 2020?”
"Yet, amazingly, the oblivious masses have zero preparedness and still think, “things will all go back to normal” real soon now,
as soon as the vaccines save everybody."
(My Comment): Think about it, you know, the situation that we are currently experiencing with shortages and outages, and supply chain breakdowns.
What can you do for yourself and your family ?
Think about it now, logically; don't wait for the crisis to happen and then be forced to respond emotionally.
Overcome your natural "normalcy bias" and imagine possibilities, or probabilities.
Work out a scenario in your mind enough to think about how you would react in a sudden given situation.
OODA Loop : (Overcoming Normalcy Bias through a 4-step decision-making process ) :
(#1) Observe,
(#2) Orient,
(#3) Decide,
(#4) Act.
More ‘Sky is falling’ B.S.
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