Time for fall winter gardening. In the south, we can grow collards and turnips in winter, even onions, as well as hunting. It may get down to growing our own food in your backyards. During WWII and the Depression, my grandparents said everyone in their small town had backyard gardens, raised chickens, had fruit and nut trees. During WWII 45% of Americas food was grown in backyard gardens, since most went to C and K rations for the military, and to help feed England.
Now with only a handfull of companies processing meats, canning and freezing food, if they have a supply problem it affects everyone. China owns a lot of our meat processing plants. Maybe it is time to break up a lot of these companies back to what they were before buyouts and consolidations. Soon we will be eating Soylent Green.
The Netherlands is the third largest exporter of food in the world. Tiny Netherlands. They also have the most greenhouses in the world growing this food. No bug sprays needed. We have a huge greenhouse company near where I live, about 50 acres. They mostly grow ornamental plants like hanging baskets, poinsettias for Christmas or such, to ship all over the south. They do grow starter tomato plants as well as spices and herb plants to sell. Just think what they could go if they switched to vegetables. Tilapia fish can be grown in tanks in a greenhouse and the waste on the bottom can be drainded and flow to fertilize plants and then return as purified water. An 8'x8'x4' tank can produce enough tilapia to feed a family of 4 once a week. I know most catfish sold in restaurants or grocery stores are raised in ponds in the south.
Anyway it is probably time for all who frequent forums like this to raise their own food, and hunt more, or fish more to provide for their families and not be so dependent on grocery stores. Get into canning and freezing. A freezer must come with a generator and probably a vacuum sealer for storing food longer term, if we could get the young people to start doing this.
