LovableHuggable
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Not shortages. More like 15% inflation in food prices each year for the last three years. That's 45% compounded interest. If that happens in the USA there will be ppl in the streets here too.Actually folks, what's going on in Egypt began due to food shortages. That's originally what got the people out into the streets to protest. Same in Tunisia, Libya, and even Algeria over this past weekend.
So growing yr own food is always something to strive for. If you live in an apartment building you can grow in containers on your terrace...or use lights, of course...or use all that empty real estate on your roof.
You must not be very old or have any experience gardening. My mother and her three sisters grew up poor as dirt and they had to grow a huge percentage of their yearly food or they simply starved. I can fill up more than one freezer with peas, october beans, butter beans, okra, squash, cucumbers and all kinds of peppers on an acre of land and not only does it feed one person all winter long, but it feeds all five of us all winter long. We have to buy corn to put up b/c that's the only thing we don't have enough land for without driving out to family land in the sticks. It doesn't take much land to give you more work than you can handle or more food than you can put up before it spoils and rots.you guys who think your small garden in your back yard is gunna feed you are sorely mistaken... youd need somewhere around an acre of land per person...
and supposing it was really a fuel and weather crisis, cause thats likely what it will be, how are you gunna maintain a 4 acre garden without oil...
if the shit hits the fan for real itll be back to the basics... hunting and gathering, maybe when things settle agriculture will return...
realize that farming was the fall back, man was never able to live only off farming until the industrial revolution, before then we grew crops only as a supplement to hunting... no way a family could farm the acreage to feed them year round without anything else...
no offense
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