http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x86845Oh my.
You know, this is encouraging. franksolich appears to have an audience.
Denninmi (722 posts) Thu Mar-31-11 08:57 PM
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Food Inflation and self sufficiency.
It is said that there will be rather dramatic food inflation in the next few years, specifically in certain foods treated as commodities -- sugar, coffee, cacao among them:
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/gross-calls-u...
Whether or not anyone wants to consider me "primitive" for doing so, I grow and preserve as much of my family's food as possible, and I intend to continue to increase the amount I produce as long as I possibly can, given the rather dire times we all seem to face.
I would strongly encourage those with the ability to produce a part of their own food supply to do so. Spring is here (or, well, in Michigan, rumored to be coming at some point in the distant future) -- there is no better time to start a garden or plant an orchard or build a chicken coop and start your own flock.
Some of my crops:
Asian Pears
after which a photograph
Wax Melons/Winter Melons
after which a photograph
Part of my spring garden a couple of years ago
after which a photograph
You know, the primitive in Michigan totally, woefully, utterly misunderstands franksolich's attitude.
franksolich lives way out in the country, on the eastern slope of the vast unpeopled Sandhills of Nebraska. franksolich lives in a place that was first settled in 1875, and for a little over a hundred years, there were three massive vegetable gardens on the property. But in 1985, the last owner died (of extreme old age), and the place was vacant until the autumn of 2005, when franksolich moved here.
(Actually, a ranch-hand and his wife had lived here for about a year, during the mid-1990s, but she wanted to be closer to human habitation, and so they moved to the other side of the county.)
Every spring-summer-autumn, the place is inundated with vegetables and flowers, and as I don't plant anything, I assume it's from this stuff regenerating itself. Grows here all sorts of things, but I "harvest" (and only a small portion) just the broccoli and cucumbers, leaving all else to ripen, grow old, rot, and decay back into the soil.
I frankly admit I'm no gardener; best to let Mother Nature do the landscaping. Cheaper, easier, cleaner.
There is
nothing wrong with growing one's own stuff; in fact, if primitives were busy out growing stuff, it'd clear up their heads and bodies.
But to imagine oneself as being virtuous for doing so, is preposterous.
And that's franksolich's main bitch about this, with the cooking and baking primitives.
There's primitive responses to this campfire, but I got so irritated at being misunderstood that I forgot to load them up into the boat and bring them here.
