Great post. The can-do attitude has certainly been lost for a long time. I live up in the frozen north and the growing season is so short (starts in March for indoor seedlings, no outdoor planting until end of May, harvest end of Sept), that it sometimes seems impossible to grow food. I worry more about water. Luckily I have an old well dug that isn't being used now, but could some day. Plus I have access to a fresh water lake (now a total frozen ice cube). Water is more essential than food and municipal access to water will be the first to go. After that will be the sewer system. Thank God I have old outhouse holes dug ready to be re-used.
I have been trying to get people thinking since 1984, when I became an adult and saw how the IPDITs in government were outsourcing our entire economy overseas, mainly to communist China. The IPDITs thumbed their noses at the young men and women who died fighting the Chinese communists in Korea and Vietnam. What was those wars for, if communist China is now our sole supplier of pretty much everything, steel, electronics, drugs, food, clothing, furniture, silicone chips, batteries, the list is endless.
Try to find something NOT made in China. Almost impossible.
You are right about growing your own food if possible. I believe a lot of the ingredients in our grocery store foods are imported from China and "processed" here in the U.S. Who knows what the Chinese put in the food we import. The Chinese government is NOT the American people's best friend. The Chinese government is the best friend of the IPDITs in the American government.
We need to get back to self-sufficiency in America. Open the coal mines, open the steel mills. Breakup the foreign-owned agriculture conglomerates and allow Americans to own land and farm. The electrical grid needs to be American owned not foreign owned (like National Grid in the northeast).
I try to do my part by seeking out made in America products (unfortunately most are assembled with foreign parts, from China). I grow my own herbs, rhubarb, strawberries and I buy vegetable and fruits from local farmer's markets.
We need to be self sufficient or we will be slaves to the country/people that we rely on for everything.
Great post. The can-do attitude has certainly been lost for a long time. I live up in the frozen north and the growing season is so short (starts in March for indoor seedlings, no outdoor planting until end of May, harvest end of Sept), that it sometimes seems impossible to grow food. I worry more about water. Luckily I have an old well dug that isn't being used now, but could some day. Plus I have access to a fresh water lake (now a total frozen ice cube). Water is more essential than food and municipal access to water will be the first to go. After that will be the sewer system. Thank God I have old outhouse holes dug ready to be re-used.
Love this post!!
I'm a very, very weak gardener, and this inspires me to keep trying. Thanks, Rob!
Thanks, Rob D. Managing an impending apocalypse is not enjoyable but beats the alternative.
I have been trying to get people thinking since 1984, when I became an adult and saw how the IPDITs in government were outsourcing our entire economy overseas, mainly to communist China. The IPDITs thumbed their noses at the young men and women who died fighting the Chinese communists in Korea and Vietnam. What was those wars for, if communist China is now our sole supplier of pretty much everything, steel, electronics, drugs, food, clothing, furniture, silicone chips, batteries, the list is endless.
Try to find something NOT made in China. Almost impossible.
You are right about growing your own food if possible. I believe a lot of the ingredients in our grocery store foods are imported from China and "processed" here in the U.S. Who knows what the Chinese put in the food we import. The Chinese government is NOT the American people's best friend. The Chinese government is the best friend of the IPDITs in the American government.
We need to get back to self-sufficiency in America. Open the coal mines, open the steel mills. Breakup the foreign-owned agriculture conglomerates and allow Americans to own land and farm. The electrical grid needs to be American owned not foreign owned (like National Grid in the northeast).
I try to do my part by seeking out made in America products (unfortunately most are assembled with foreign parts, from China). I grow my own herbs, rhubarb, strawberries and I buy vegetable and fruits from local farmer's markets.
We need to be self sufficient or we will be slaves to the country/people that we rely on for everything.