Re: OT...Got Garden? Daily Food Crisis in the News

In article <ompomelet-59C078.09391522042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <rlkq045emn5oavl1d57rnbhcnaod76e6kt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie wrote:
> 
> > All you pollyannas can just move along, nothing to see here. 
Everthing
> > will be taken care of.  Just a tem****ary glitch in the matrix.
> > 
> > Here is today's small sampling of "food insufficiency" stories.
> > Billy may be right, this appears to be a possible "Perfect Storm", or
> > the fulfillment of Dr. Kissinger's proposal.
> > 
> > Any of you Right or Left Coasters have anything re****table on the
first
> > article?  We can no longer get Lundberg Farms rice here in our town.
> > This has happened in the last week.  Food prices are going thru the
> > roof in a big hurry, produce from the fresh sections is outta sight.
> > Cauliflower is 3.00 +, brocolli same, Iceberg Lettuce 1.68, and these
> > are the common items.  I picked up a bag of organic gala apples at
> > 1.98#... twelve bucks for the small bag. Unorganic apples are 1.78#.
> > Meat and eggs are going up weekly.  Gas is at 3.35 and diesel is 4.12.
> > Oil passed 117.50 today.
> > 
> > It's fast becoming a matter of backing up and remembering and doing as
> > our parents and grands did, to a degree.  We have some cush, just
gotta
> > give up some of the extraneous horsecrap, eh?
> > 
> > And enlarge our own growing capacity.  Both my sons, *and* DILs are
> > finally onboard and borrowing all the garden info and bookmarks I
have.
> > 
> > Those hunnert and fitty issues of TMEN sittin' on the shelf are gonna
> > be the new bibles in the future. ;-)
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Soins et bonne chance
> > 
> > Charlie
> 
> I'll be stocking up on the low sodium (No salt added) canned veggies 
> before they go any higher...  Water costs for gardening eat me alive so 
> it's not economically feasible to make it more than just a hobby. :-(
> 
> I'll  be studying more of the Texas native edible plants. Zeroscape 
> items that don't need to be babied/watered.
> 
> I'll also stock up on ammo so I can hunt my own meat...
> 
> Squirrel is tasty in season and I have a hunting license. Same for 
> fi****ng wild fi****es. Deer are also plentiful and I have somewhere I can

> hunt without having to pay a $1,000.00 hunting lease!
> 
> 
> Might even learn to like Prairie dog. <eg>

I'm glad that there are still the commons (property of the people, for 
the people) to e used. Most of it was cut down, destroying the game and 
plants to be found there, the recharging the aquifers and clean water, 
the preservation of the top soil, and the cleaning of the air. Sounds 
like you have some private property lined up but this used to be every 
person's right before the commons were taken. 
The oceans are being closed as well as they are the last vestiges of the 
commons. Grand Banks are fished out. There will be no salmon season on 
the west coast as we try to save the salmon from extinction. Farmed 
salmon just isn't the same, nutritionally or in terms of genetic 
diversity. 
You probably saw Jerod Diamond's article. "The Worst Mistake of the 
Human Race". 
www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/mistake_jared_diamond
..pdf It argues that we never had it so good as when we were hunter 
gatherers. 

You may want to check out xeriplants.pdf 
www.abcwua.org/pdfs/xeriplants.pdf a mish-mash of landscaping and garden 
plants. Thanks to Jangchub, I'm trying to grow prickly pear cactus 
now:-) The county enjoyed how we conserved last year, so they raised the 
water rates, and now we get to do it again.

Good hunting.
-- 

Billy

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