Posted on 07/27/2022 5:49:18 AM PDT by Pollard
That’s what I figured long ago. He who owns the food supply controls the people. A pox take him!
Great, interesting idea but is it repeatable worldwide and how much good could the $250 million do for normal farming? $250 million is a large amount of funding to raise and of course this is just one operation, what about worldwide funding requirements? Also, what do we do with the farmers, pay them to not work? Retrain for what job if robots are going to do the work? There’s a social cost to pay to support non-working people which has not worked out well so far. There is a great mental satisfaction for people to work and own something. Just existing with no purpose is not a great lifestyle. So I think we should address all the factors which such an operation would impact before going down that road.
Tomorrow we close on 5.75 rural acres zoned agricultural/unrestricted. By Christmas we plan to be living there fulltime. We are going to set up a larger version of the practice raise bed veggie growing we have been doing in our suburban yard for the past 5 years.
We use heritage seeds and heritage type chickens that do well in our climate. I’ve had great luck with Ameracaunas and Creme Legbars. We have an 8 year old Creme Leg bar hen that still lays an egg every other day and both breeds are good free rangers.
Personally I would not use commercial production chickens. On a small homestead you dont want to breed just hens. You bring the cockrels up to 4 months then harvest all but one or two for the freezer. With a small incubator you can hatch out your own chicks so you only purchase once from the hatchery.
Grow a patch of corn and a patch of sorghum and you could get by without the Tractor supply for feed if you free range the chickens during the day.
I think it is a good thing in that it will force the public to do something about our government and its relations with people like Gates, Fauci and the almost endless list of evil people in government.
Years ago the big names in the lumber industry were buying up huge tracts of timber and managing their own tree farms.
Eventually they found out that was not a good idea and sold much of it.
A cousin who managed a huge tract of timber for one of the leading forest products company, when I asked him how he dealt with hunters made a point I have never forgot,,,,”It is easier to get along with them than it is to fight forest fires”.
That was long ago when we were young. He later became a VP managing all his company’s timberland east of the Mississippi.
Bill Gates is warped. He will never get along with real farmers.
Sounds like something he would do.
I think that’s one reason tptb are suddenly in a hurry. I saw an interview of a farmer in NC that made the switch back to non-gmo corn/soy. It seems the number of roundup resistant weeds is increasing by the year so between buying the expensive seed every year, buying the roundup and still having to do mechanical cultivation to control weeds, the Bayer owned seed/roundup method is becoming unsustainable.
Their first major high tech food project is starting to fail.
There are farmers of the hundreds of acres size that are starting to figure out how to grow corn/soy with almost no fertilizer, pesticide or vegetation killer like roundup, using cover crops. The cover crop seed is cheaper than fertilizer and they’re planting right into a green cover crop that’s been terminated by an attachment called a roller/crimper, usually cereal rye. Vegetation killers like roundup is often used to chemically terminate a cover crop.
There are no-till market gardeners/farmers that use no fertilizer or pesticide. They are using a shit ton of compost and after a few years, their soil is so healthy and alive that the plants are super healthy and have a high sugar content which most pests can’t tolerate.
There’s a race going on right now between these innovative farmers who are moving to natural systems, healthy living soil and the technocrats that want to make or modify things in a lab and grow in high tech facilities.
One group is trying to figure out and work with the super complex system that God created for us. The other thinks they are gods. A few years ago, I read that scientists still don’t fully know exactly what breast milk is made up of. Meanwhile Gates is trying to produce man-made breast milk.
**Vinegar does kill weeds, especially when used along with dish soap. Dish soap, vinegar and a spray bottle are all you need for making your own weed killer.**
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/gardening/gardening-basics/make-your-own-weed-killer-with-vinegar/
Yep you describe the “alternative” supply chain that is growing quite well. I am quite aware of it here locally and
have friends engaged in it full time.
As badly as Gates wants to reduce the population of the planet, the food distribution will be based on “WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES”.
I’ve got a four year old hen, the only one of 6 to not get killed by hawks. When the other 5 were gone, I stopped feeding the last one because I figured she wasn’t much longer for this world and she wasn’t laying at the time anyway. Few months later, she started laying again and laid eggs for two years with zero feed and managed to avoid the hawks. I noticed she likes to hang around with the goats/dogs most of the time or around the house and would visit the compost pile daily which is near the house. She would scoot across open areas.
I’ve got her locked in the coup right now because the fence around the garden isn’t very tall. I’m wanting to get some more fertilized eggs from the neighbor and borrow an incubator from another neighbor and hatch some chicks for this hen to raise. Would be nice to have a flock of zero maintenance survivalist chickens. I would need a 5 foot fence around the garden though.
I dragged the fambly from the East coast to rural MO and found 8 acres in the Ozarks with a decent sized level area with 1-2 foot of silty loam top soil with very few rocks. Pretty rare thing for these parts. Took us two years to find a decent small property. Most were North or West facing slopes and/or had rocky soil that dried into a concrete like surface or bad access or utilities a mile away.
A lot of them have a heavy social media presence on facebook, instagram and make youtube videos and they monetize all of those with affiliate links, usually amazon. Many will write a book. Some get into training/courses. That style of farming is labor intensive so when they start getting to middle aged, they do those other things or get big enough to hire most of the labor. They do everything from starting seeds to harvesting, washing and packaging, manning a booth at the farmer's market or marketing and delivering to restaurants. Gotta be good to supply restaurants.
They've got some pretty little farms
Veggies, veggies and more veggies and maybe some strawberries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKEDnLxB3yU
‘They’ play the long game, so likely a progressive, eroding-liberty/personal-ownership-stoppage path. ‘Death of a thousand restrictions’ rather than The Big Event.
The November Elections are key. *IF* the fraud can be sufficiently minimized, then ‘They’ are stalled, but not prevented from acting, since non-USA entities will continue The Great Reset.
If ‘They’ retain power, then yeah, with a year +/- a quarter. Why would they wait?
You'll be allowed to buy food based on your BMI. (Body Mass Index)
Yes I’ve watched that. Its a great idea.
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