Today I think we need to really begin to think about individual food production. I 100% meant what I said yesterday about fearing future food shortages and as a result skyrocketing food prices. America was once a “nation of farmers”, yet I think that statement gets misunderstood.
In our nation of farmer, yes, there were many true farmers in the way we generally think of the word. Families who farmed more than 100 acres and literally earned their living from their land. Yet at the same time countless men were tradesman and professionals as a primary source of income but still maintained a “farm” from a few to a few dozen acres.
These farms fed their families and raised additional income by selling surplus. They also preserved much of the harvest to deal with winter shortages and other hard times. Somewhere along the way the time clock and next promotion began to bury the small farms in the new reality of suburbia. Yet even in the initial stages of suburbia the spirit lived on for a while. Today we must continue to rekindle our roots as producers of food.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What became of our “nation of farmers”
- Methods of individual food production
- Conventional gardening
- Guerrilla gardening
- Foraging
- Hunting
- Fishing
- Trapping
- Plant and forget
- Small Livestock
- Permaculture
- Aquaponics
- Container Gardening
- Food preservation
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- Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine
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