Excellent column. Thanks for posting.
I’m now going back to my basement to work on my seedlings so that we will have vegetables, at least, next summer.
If we keep going the way we are going, I foresee mothers making mud cakes for their children in the USA someday. God save us!
I planted an 'heirloom' garden yesterday...this is a reproducing, non-hybrid, garden. I plan to harvest all for seeds and distribute 'heirloom' packets of seeds to all my friends and neighbors in the fall.
***I foresee mothers making mud cakes for their children in the USA someday. God save us!***
I went to a local Tractor Supply Co last night to buy some baby chicks. The department employee was on the phone with someone who wante to buy some chicks BUT HAD NO IDEA HOW TO RAISE THEM!
The employee spent quite a bit of time telling this person how to keep them warm, what kind of feed to use, what to keep them in.
Then the caller asked what you did with them when they were grown. The employee said you kill and put them in the freezer for future food.
The caller then asked “Is that all you do?” to which the employee said, no you have to pluck and process (clean) them first.
The caller asked “Do you do that there?” Employee said, “no you must do it.” After more of this kind of talk the caller hung up.
I then talked to the employee and he said he gets lots of calls this time of year (Easter) from people who don’t have the slightest idea where food comes from or how to grow it..
He said he talked with one woman about how farmers were going out of business, and she said (now get this), “I’m not worried about farmers going broke! I get my groceries from Walmart!”