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Russians Proving That Small-Scale, Organic Gardening Can Feed the
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Off the World News Desk:

Russians Proving That Small-Scale, Organic Gardening Can Feed the
World | Reclaim, Grow, Sustain

“On a total of 8 million hectares (20 million acres) of land, 35
million Russian families grow food in small-scale, organic gardens on
their Dachas (a secondary home, often in the extra urban areas).
Because growing your own food happens to be a long-lived tradition in
Russia, even among the wealthy.

Based on official 1999 statistics, 92% of Russia's potatoes, 77% of
its vegetables, 87% of its fruits, 59.4% of its meat, and 49.2% of its
milk were produced by these 35 million Dacha families (105 million
people, 71% of the country's population).”
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Survivors of a collapse tend to be a bit smarter. - Wes

A comment or two:

+1 # SomeoneInAsia 2013-04-05 15:55
Dear Mother Russia, I love you.

May God bless the nation that produced Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Shostakovich, Solzhenitsyn, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev, and may
she stand as the new guiding light for the rest of the world as it
descends into that terrible abyss known otherwise as the Long
Emergency.

+2 # MadamOh 2013-04-06 00:48
For all the unpleasantries of the Soviet Union, notorious for
pedagoguery, cruelty and deceit, their starkly egalitarian system had
some real advantages, including a proud place in society for the
disadvantaged, and encouragement of a realistic degree of self
sufficiency. Most of the people never got accustomed to luxuries. When
the system collapsed, they had what they needed, as long as Uncle Ivan
didn't sell it off for his next drink, and had maintained critical
skills. Post-collapse, it really was a pleasant country to visit, and
reassuring to anyone who understood where the trajectory of capitalism
would lead. I learned a lot from these down-to-earth people.