Posted on 12/03/2021 12:11:47 PM PST by ransomnote
[H/T Travis McGee]
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Wow.
I think those seed banks are largely meant to preserve legacy varieties and protect the genetic diversity of crops. I could be wrong but that’s my understanding.
Technological advances have massively increased our capacity for food production. Even the doom and gloom UN has stated that the reduction in global starvation/hunger has been way ahead of their expectations.
Just develop a better recipe for Soylent Green
Yon is a well connected patriot. Freepers would do well to listen to his forecast…
The Bible says famines will occur in the latter days.
China is probably preparing for war.
something to think about.
Tyrants used planned famines as a means to an end.
Travis’s own novels depict this scenario quite vividly.
Good bedtime reading, if you like nightmares.
It might help to have a few German Shepherds around... and store up lots of canned dog food for them.
No days seem more latter than the present ones.
The libtards war on oil will take its toll.
Without abundant, affordable petroleum based fuels large scale agriculture in the USA will come to a screeching halt.
GROW YOUR OWN GROCERIES:
Get your seeds and whatever fertilizer you need now. Become as independent as possible. Need help doing that— get on the garden thread newbies welcome, and we have experienced gardeners who love to help.
In addition to compost pile/container for your coffee grounds and kitchen waste, get some cover crops. And don’t forget the organic compost. Alfalfa meal is high in nitrogen and one of the cheapest choices. Bone meal, and even Epsom Salts can be useful.
Even if you live in an Apartment. Use the window and/or a grow light and you can get some sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes and peppers — all do well indoors. Medicinal herbs also are useful.
Find a local farmer to get your eggs, chicken, beef etc.
Actually there are ways to have a 4 season harvest. A guy in Maine has written several books about how to do it—he uses an unheated greenhouse, but you can also build a “hot” box. Thats a bottom layer of manure for heat with containers of plants on top.
In Missouri, I grow winter wheat, winter rye, and garlic mostly during the cold months, with cover crops on the rest for green “manure” in the spring. As an experiment, I grew some lettuce and carrots outdoors a couple of winters - just used a row cover topped with straw. Lettuce was available all winter long, and the carrots came in earlier than normal.
I am currently growing a lemon tree, Bay Laural Tree,
rosemary, parsley, tomato and bell pepper in front of a patio door, and some lettuce in an unheated greenhouse. Where there is a will and determination, there is a way-and plenty of books to learn how to do it.
Mormon Pioneers also had to use winter crops to survive.
In case the internet goes down, I have several books on the old ways and new ways of food preservation and gardening.
If I lived in the City or Suburbs, I’d have a regular garden, and a gorilla garden (food that people don’t recognize as such), and a room dedicated to food storage and guns/ammo to protect it.
No need to do one or the other - do several.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a policy implemented that allowed for personal gardens. The statistic I recall is that this policy resulted in having 24% of Soviet produce grown on 1% of their land.
If you know how to do plumbing, I would trade some rice, beans, and chicken for fixing my sinks and water intake hose from the well.
It is a time to grow closer to one’s neighbors. Network with them, get to know them, understand their skills, and pick out the juicy ones...
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