Posted on 05/13/2011 7:46:55 PM PDT by blam
My buddy and I were discussing today what we'd do when FEMA (bullies) shows up to confisticate our 'supplies' for re-distribution to the needy downtown.
We’ll soon be using dollar bills for rolling papers...
Bfl.
My wife is ever afraid that I will be featured on an episode of “Hoarders, Buried Alive”
“when in the course of human events ...”
I heard a prophet several years ago say he was given a vision, that there would be some kind of disease that would affect these genetically altered plants(hybrids) and there would be a catastrophic crop failure leading to massive starvation.
We use only heirloom seeds and prayer ;) We've done this for the past several years. It's probably the best way to go. The heirloom plants seem to do as well as the hybrids and personally I think the veggies taste better. But, maybe it's just my imagination.
we are really into liquor....not that we drink much...hubby likes the 12 Macallens...but AFAIK, it doesn’t go bad...
December 27, 2007
Coloful houses lie near the mountains in Longyearbyen, a village on the island of Spitsbergen, part of Norway's Svalbard archipelago.
A mountainside near the town was chosen as the home for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a "doomsday" seed bank that will store backup copies of as many as three million different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe.
The high-tech vault, which will open for storage in February 2008, is going to "put an end to extinction [of] agricultural crops," said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome, Italy, which is the leading force behind the project.
The mission is crucial, Fowler noted, because the stored seeds provide researchers with the raw genetic materials needed to adapt the global food supply to survive climate change as well as water and energy shortages.
Thanks for the heads up on this, very interesting!!!!
BUMP to re-read later. Several times...
That disease is just as likely to attack heirloom seeds, in fact, more likely. Hybrids are bred to resist the most common diseases like fusarium and verticilium wilt and while hybrids are unpredictable when the seed is saved, you would still get some form of what you planted.
Hybrids are also heavier yielders. If everyone had to plant heirloom seeds we would very soon have famines by the same scenario as the hybrid and GM seeds getting some dread disease.
For the same reason if all farmers were forced to go organic there would be widespread famine.
I too, have my stash of seeds and it contains open pollinated and hybrids.
Oh yeah, hybrids aren’t what you call genetically modified. They are cross bred with like type plants in an effort to take advantage of the best features of both parents.
GM plants have totally unrelated genes spliced into them.
Dry beans and rice, canned goods and a side of beef in the freezer. Just keep rotating, and hope the power stays on, or there will be a big bbq, with a barter system set up for a beef meal.
Get salt, you can dry the beef. I just use soy sauce, or smoke sauce, some just with salt and pepper and some with red or green chile powder. I rarely do beef just elk and deer. I even have a thingamajig that my son bought that squirts out ground meat for jerky.
You can also plant some of those dry beans. You can eat them green if you string them or raise them to maturity.
You can make jerky from ground meat? I have the grinder, sausage maker, but never figured out how to make jerky out of it. What kind of salt, and how much is recommended? It is also a good barter item, along with quality bar soap.
I don’t have recipes, I just judge it by my own standards and I use regular salt. We just experiment.
The thing that does the ground meat is like a big syringe with different shaped ends and I think he got it from one of the large sportsmen’s stores.
Now that’s scary. I don’t buy the hybrids cause you can’t take the seeds from the veggie, like tomato and such and grow another plant. Wouldn’t that be kinda the same thing though? I mean if they get a diseases and there is a mass whip out of hybrid veggie plants, that’s it.
Ok, but, I can save the seeds of a heirloom plant and replant later. Like you said about hybrids could you save the seeds and replant and get anything? And even if you could, would you get something the next year, or the next? Probably not. With heirlooms you can save the seeds and replant for decades. At least my grandmother did.
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