Discussion: How To Grow Food?
Discussion: How To Grow Food?
Quite predictably, the supply chain is being exhausted
Food processing plants eradicated in the last two years
A controlled demolition of the food supply seems to be making progress. It started decades ago, mostly with weaponized weather, GMO produce with their matching pesticides, and bee-killing neonicotinoids, but in the last two years, the process has been spectacularly accelerated to stay unnoticed: farmers have been paid for NOT growing anything ($3.6k to $6k per acre, depending on the state in which they resided), geoengineering-related floods and droughts, fertilizer plants damaged, railroad delivery hampered by derailed wagons, Bill Gates and his ilk buying up farmland for pennies on the dollar, only to grow his GMO produce that irreversibly alter all plant life and harm humans, who eat the Frankenfood.
How to prepare?
It is essential to be prepared for food shortages that might arrive before the year runs out. What can a person, a neighborhood, a village, a town, or even the exposed and defenseless populace of a country do in order to prepare for not to starve?
Growing your own food in a permaculture
The globalists have been parroting the idea of “sustainability,” but by that they seem to mean that you croak and, after that, you won’t consume any resources that they believe they own and control.
Setting up an ecosystem for steady food supply could be an option, but how can it be done?
Let the discussion start!
Better than any cultivated food, in my opinion, are the weeds that most of us have been taught are noxious, and deserve to be killed (with chemical herbicides being most often employed).
I believe that they are better because they are always hardier, often have better nutrition profiles than many cultivars, and are nearly impossible to destroy, even with considering this war against our environment that is being waged, with engineered weather and broadcasted poisons of various nature being spread in many ways.
A common weed, amaranth, is nearly impossible to kill, even with chemicals, and is very prolific throughout the US, and everyone knows of dandelions, which are super good, and go mainly unused, with every part being edible.
The roots of many plants can be stored longer than their aerial parts, and are often nutritionally dense.
There are too many "weeds" to list here, but I believe that to learn of the ones that grow around you is a worthwhile pursuit, and can be fun, while getting exercise, and other meaningful interactions with our earthen world, aside from the honorable, worthy act of gathering ones own food (how novel!).
Something I have seen many times throughout my life, though, is that people do not always use the best sense in regards to where they harvest wild foods from, so I mention here to NEVER pick from alongside train tracks or major roadways, unless you want to experiment with your health.
Also, like with all things in life, do your own due diligence, and make sure of the identification of the plant(s), or whatever wild food(s), such as the several edible and delicious mushrooms that are out, free, in nature, to be had for the simple, honest labor of finding and harvesting them.
Many families in diverse areas across the US supplemented their diets with common weeds during the Great Depression, and such an event seems to be possibly forming right now.
Much of the required knowledge of this sort should have been placed in your "kit" already, ideally, but it is never too late to learn such. There are Many good books on such .
These days people seem to be thinking that their phone or computer is always going to be there, holding all their valuable info safe, but I don't believe any such, and prefer non-electric info storage, like books, or , better yet, committed to memory.
The best tasting food I have ever eaten has been the simplest food, gathered from nature by my own two hands, while being hungry far afield, with no store nearby; and much, if not most, of the "food" they are selling us is pure poisonous trash, anyhow.
I cringe to see all of my fellow earthlings filling theirselves with it, especially the McCrap that many still eat, and especially the little zombie-eyed children with their CrappyMeals... I was one of those kids, way back, as my parents were completely trusting, for the most part, of the Bread and Circus, of the Federal Bureaus of A-Z, of the American Way of consumption for all, (regardless of the effects -- Just EAT IT!), and generally did not seem to realize that we were all being fed a bunch of lies by a few liars, alas.... Thank you, Edward Bernays!
I'm in Netherlands for about 4 years. Here I cannot sow anything as I have no garden for it. Before coming here I used to sow and plant almost everything I eat, in my garden in Portugal. From 1000 square meters I only used half of it. More than enough to supply my family with potatoes, carrots, garlic, onions, spinach, tomatoes, lettuce, beans, peas, chickpea, courgette, all kind of cabbages, melon, peppers, hot peppers, even tobacco.
Only with water because if there's rain I'm safe with a 40 cubic meters reservoir to collect rain water from the roofs.
Only potatoes I always cure otherwise I get nothing to harvest.
I'm a city guy. I was born and lived all my life in Lisbon, but when I made 26 I started to think to myself way wait for retirement to live where I really enjoyed to live? About my thirties I moved to my grandfather village where I have always went on summer vacation. Since then I've started to learn how to grow my own food. It's quite easy if one has the will. Year after year you learn with your mistakes and you get better. Less of this, more of that and so on. Personally having my hands on the dirt is something I miss every days. That's why I'm gonna rethink my life and most probably I will return to my homeland.
FYI, December 2021 I've paid 140 EUR for 150 m3 gas consumption. January 2022, there was no Ukraine war and for the same 150 m3 I've paid 340 EUR.
Now it's even better. Starting 20th October, each cubic meter will go from 1,88 EUR to 3,44 EUR. Electricity kWh will go from 0,46 EUR to 1,04 EUR. This on the top of escalating food prices.
I'm expecting between 500 and 600 EUR bills only for gas and electricity. Also expecting a surge in crime rates.
I'm really thinking about going to spend the winter in my homeland to see what's gonna happen. There even with blackouts I can heat my entire home as the wood is almost for free,when it's not free. Heat and cook at the same time. My fireplace has an oven.