Tip from an old geezer: Plant Your Victory Garden Now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_garden
But I also have Victory Squirrels taking one bite out of each tomato and moving on...
The Coming Food Catastrophe
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#132Sounds like there's a big potential for upheavals similar to the Arab Spring. A fair number of countries subsidize food for their citizens, and if they can't get their hands on any, there's going to be issues. I wonder which countries are most at risk? I read somewhere that the Arab countries get a lot of Ukrainian wheat.
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This guy has a vested interest in convincing people we’re in for a rough year or two.
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The EU is mostly self sufficient in terms of grains. In most years, there's a trade surplus, in some years a small deficit.
https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/a1135630-e8e9-4531-a522-23670... 2021/2022 despite the file name
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#134Meta rant: You know a thread is compromised by sock-puppets when "Article photo is pretty badass" is one of the top comments in the thread, ahead of criticisms about the article.
I think its twitter refugees. Give 'em a few days, they'll figure out the differences.
Give 'em a few weeks, this happens every September and it won't last forever. /s
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It also takes well over an acre to support a single person, and that's if you know what you're doing and have the time to manage a garden of that size.
I just wanted to look out my window and see something more useful than grass , OK? If I got to enjoy a couple meals out of what I grew, so much the better.
I've zero objection to "I like gardening" and "I love a home-grown tomato" as reasons to have a garden. I simply don't think it's a meaningful part of a fix to a collapse of the supply chain.
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#136What nobody understands is that this is not happening strictly because of the war or the drought, but because of the fragility of the global food system, which simply cannot bear any shocks. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/2/02... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1712-3 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-... We either fix this or we simply won't have a global…
Literally, untrue - LOTS of people understand. But like the people who understood that launching a space shuttle when the ambient temperatures were running far, far below the absolute minimum spec. for the SRB's...
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Your local zoning board might object. I live in PA, and one of the neighborhood vigilantes immediately ratted me out to the local government when I started growing corn, squash, and beans in my backyard while raising a couple of chickens for eggs.
> one of the neighborhood Karens Please keep that sort of slur off HN. We don't need it here, and you don't need it to make your substantive points.
I don't know if the comment was edited or not, but I hope you're not claiming "vigilante" is a slur. I looked up the definition of slur just to be sure and you are technically correct, but I'd say you're abusing language far more than the person you're responding to.
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This is really hard, I had four 8x4 raised beds (all I could fit) for 5 years. The amount of space and time it takes to produce enough food to replace actual meals for more than just a few times in the summer is absolutely astonishing (unless you like squash all the time). I grew tomatoes, kale, squash, onions, lettuce and peppers. It tasted great, and got some salads and side dishes out of it, but that was about it.…
> And it only yielded from July to August Where are you? I’m near Toronto, started my seedlings indoors ~6 weeks ago, and already eating small kale leaves and lettuce that’s somehow growing in the grass. A dying apple tree gave me more than I could eat for 2-3 months last year. Gonna plant a pear tree in the front yard.
My parents have a pear tree that came with the lot. Straggly looking creature with barely any signs of life all year, then for a month or two it produces more pears than my parents can eat for the rest of the year.
I love visiting my parents while it’s going apeshit. Crisp pears all day.