I like to garden. Ever since I was a little boy and my mother planted a Victory Garden in our back yard while my father was off to war, and I saw the seeds sprout and become food, I was sold on the idea of getting food from dirt.
So each year I plant a garden, not always the same stuff but mostly. This year I planted an apricot tree on the hill where my chickens used to roam, and it’s growing like crazy. I fed it well and put plenty more nutrients into the earth before it went in. It may give me back some apricots next year.
The garden has the usual, radishes, tomatoes, beets, lettuce, summer and winter squash, onions and so on and provides my salads and vegetables for the summer and on into the winter for awhile. Some of it can be canned, as well, tomatoes for instance, and the garden will keep feeding me when the growing season is long over.
“U.S. agricultural land is some of the most productive and expensive in the world. More than 31 million acres of U.S. agricultural land have been irrevocably lost to urban expansion since 1982 and an additional 175 acres of farm and ranchland are lost every hour to make way for housing and other industries.”
That’s just in the USA. The same is happening in Europe even as some European nations’ governments are trying to shut farms down entirely because of claimed “greenhouse emissions”. The war in Ukraine has shut down the grain production. A lot is happening to stop the production of food and it looks like it’s on purpose.
No wonder all the worlds billionaires are building survival bunkers. It might be a good idea to take a clue from that, huh?