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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Food Security
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:08:25 -0500

The referenced article mentioned something that has been on my mind lately.  Like many "boomers", our life savings is invested in the stock market, courtesy of 401k plans.  That's increasingly uncomfortable.   I'd like to move our pittance to something more tangible, focusing on food security.  Since I've been working on personal self-sufficiency for over 30 years, most of the obvious is covered (i.e. paid-for energy-efficient house and land, tools, rain water collection, reference books).  I could use some fresh ideas for cash investment, especially regarding food production and preservation.  How about seeds?  is there a good source for properly preserved vegetable seeds, or is this a DIY?  Seems like most of what needs to be done requires time and effort, rather than cash.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Conine
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Food Security

Here's another story about the 'future'.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Archives2007/KunstlerDirectAnxiety.html

I'm with the Survival Acres guy. If for no other reason than by comparing the stock market, the Depression, and the difference in concentrated farming/food dependence of now and 1929. Back then, people had some chance of finding a farm with stored food, fields of cabbage, a few extra potatoes, and a lot of small homes with a family cow providing wholesome milk from grass, and chickens.
Today, there is only the System, and the few of us out on the Fringe who know how to grow our own food, but there aren't nearly as many of us as there are going to be desperate people doing desperate things. The local gas station owner (from India, who stops in to pick up chicken feed occasionally) said that he is seeing as many cars travelling on weekends as he normally would see on the 4th of July. Not as many mobile houses, though, but more cars. Where are all these people going, and what are they accomplishing when they get there?

Oh yeah, we need to grow more corn to feed THEIR habits......  :-P  ...

Dan
Belgium,WI


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