Reply #28: It's pretty hard to live off a garden. [View All]

[Gregorian]

The only way to live a half decent life is through a community. I can't live off of kale and chard. What about flour? Or pork, if you so desire. We can't do it alone. And this is where we screwed ourselves. I have to go off on a tangent here- I just remembered the Fedex guy who came by a week ago. He said that the place I bought used to be a real farm. And as a kid, he and his dad would come to get chickens and pork. But now we rely on Safeway, which relies on fuel to move stuff around from store to store. When gas is too expensive, we are left without our infrastructure. It could take decades to regroup. Not only that, but we have forgotten how. I have everything it takes to do it, except the knowledge. Hell, I can't even get a garden going. Furthermore, one fuckup and your little garden is gone. Or any screwup and you find yourself starving. I honestly don't see any way out of this mess. If the population were half what it is, I could see answers.
I'm going to look at my tomato seedlings. Time to out to the greenhouse for a while. This is way too heavy. I'm sure we're overreacting. Nothing changes very quickly. But maybe we can learn from this. Slow down, or suffer. That's my new motto.