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How can growing a garden prevent the United States from falling into a socialist and global form of control?  Believe it or not it can.  In February of 2008 a startling fact was reveled; The United States is now a “net importer of food”, meaning we are no longer able to feed ourselves with our own resources.   While you can’t produce oil in your back yard or stem the tide of cheap manufacturing from China in your garage this is something anyone can do something about if they choose to.  Tune in today to hear,

• How our conversion to a net food importer is very similar to our status as a net oil importer
• How oil imports started climbing in the 50s and then outweighed native production by 1990
• Comparing the value of a garden to 20 gallons of gasoline a month (what would you do to produce the gas)
• Exactly what do Patriotism and Gardening have to do with each other
• How a dependence on foreign will always result eventually in diplomatic and military conflicts
• How a food deficit is far worse then an oil deficit
• How the food deficit could combine with the declining dollar, diplomatic problems and peak oil
• The real “magic beans” that you can buy for a few bucks
• The 30 Foot Salad vs. the 3000 Mile Salad
• Why we don’t have to let this final global dependence happen to our nation and why we need to take action
• How even a small garden can produce more then you can eat at one time
• The real value of a small garden in dollars
• Spreading gardening and permaculture to your neighborhood
• The loss of great farming communities in places like Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York
• The loss of gardening as a true skill
• What we can learn about food production from the tragic history of U.S. Manufacturing and Oil Production
• How loosing our ability to feed ourselves could take away the last of our autonomy in the Global market place
• If your grandparents, great grandparents and parents did this, so can we

Resources for Today’s Show

• The history of the oil deficit in our trade with foriegn nations
• The Daily Reckoning on the Coming Food Crisis
• The Dervaes Family Produces 6000 Pounds a Year on 1/10th of an Acre
• Monsanto puts a spin on the coming food crisis