Food Shortage: Bad Economy
Few of you are old enough to remember the great depression of the 1930s. Food lines in the cities reaching blocks, thousand of men on the rails looking for work, anywhere, doing anything. Many of those men never returned home, leaving wives and children to fen for themselves. Could that happen again, in spite of 800 billion dollars spent on stimulating our economy. It is not working, so you had better have a plan. I hope I give you at part of one.
Become Debt Free
Become liquid in your finances. Sell everything you have that is not necessary for comfort, move to a much smaller resident better suited to your income and family size. Downsize everywhere you can, get rid of all those toys you have parked all around your yard. Get out of debt, get rid of your credit cards, buy only what you need, save for what you want. Find out how to grow vegetables on backyard barrel aquaponic units you can make and maintain very cheaply. Grow earthworms to decompose waste vegetable matter, use their castings to enrich the fish tank water you will use to feed your plants. Make a tea of one part castings to three parts water, use one forth of this tea by volume to four parts volume of your fish water to feed your plants. Grow anything you would normally in a garden outdoors. This can all be done for under two hundred dollars, plus seed or starter plant cost. Think how great it would be to eat fresh fish you raised, with vegetables you grew. Let the prices of food go up, you can live off what you can grow. Will that stop the raiders, no, but maybe it will give you time to work an escape plan long before they raid your backdoor aquaponic system.
One Man can do it, can you
While researching aquaponics on the Internet, brush up on survival techniques. If America keeps going down the path it is now following, we just might become a third world country. Do not laugh, it is now being talked about in ever broadening circles. I am one of the lucky one, I have an isolated spot on the top of a small mountain, hard to reach without directions. I function with a twenty by forty foot greenhouse producing far more food than I can consume alone. One day I will not sell my surplus but will most likely have friends park an RV type unit around the perimeter of my five acres and we will all work together to protect our little world where there is food for those who work, not for those who take or beg. If you work, you eat. Good luck.
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