Getting Ready for the Collapse! (fresh water, coastal, Phoenix, New York)

[red.ochre]

Originally Posted by vec101

Stocking up for the collapse?

Yup . .
Northarvest Bean Growers Association - Consumer and Foodservice Professionals

f.y.i., Big Lots has large and various sizes of glass containers that seal, and I think they're decent storage for long-term durable goods. Very affordable.

I've built up about a 3mth supply, beans, rice, canned fish, etc., wasn't expensive to do. It's just that I started out ignorant so it was slow going at first. Now that I've got a blueprint, I can work on bringing it up to a year.

Been digging a small garden, and it's humble, but even if all I can grow is onions, that's supplemental to the food stores. Next project to initiate is a rain collection and water purification system.

[David Kennedy]

Dry Canning is a nice way to do dry foods...beans, rice and such...those things that can be bought cheaply in bulk...drinking water is another thing everybody takes for granted and never thinks of.

[jetgraphics]

Local TV news cast had a story about a home brew copy of the "Topsy Turvy" tomato planter.

The guy bought 6 gallon buckets, drilled a 3/4" hole in the bottom, and put the 'mater plant in the bottom. After filling the bucket, he planted cherry tomatoes on the top.

That's real multitasking!

[jetgraphics]

And for those who want to get into "Dirt Farming"....

Check out terra preta.
It's a man-made soil, that was invented by pre-Columbian Indians of the Amazon watershed. The article is fascinating, as well as thought provoking.

[David Kennedy]

terra preta? A similar deposit of 'burnt over silt exists in the bogs and valley floor of Canaan near Elkins. This soil is harvested and used as a decorator mulch around homes in that area.

[red.ochre]

Other Notes :
"We’ve got a situation where there has been no incentive to allocate significant new capital to agriculture or to develop new technologies to dramatically expand crop output. We’ve got complacency. So for those reasons I believe the next food crisis – when it comes – will be a bigger shock than $150 oil."
Global starvation imminent as US faces crop failure | 19 June 2009 | www.commodityonline.com

Other notes :
Personal Income Changes, by State 2009/Q1
Bureau of Economic Statistics


Other notes :
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported the unemployment rate at 9.4% for May 2009. However, when the BLS considers the aggregate unemployed, which includes marginally attached workers and workers employed part-time for economic reasons, the unemployment rate reached 16.4% in May 2009. "

[jetgraphics]

Originally Posted by red.ochre

... I believe the next food crisis – when it comes – will be a bigger shock than $150 oil."
Global starvation imminent as US faces crop failure | 19 June 2009 | www.commodityonline.com

AMEN!

Wise Ant reminds us to save for the harsh winter - - - and hide it from the Gestapo Grasshoppers who will take it from us.

[David Kennedy]

I wonder if history will have a place for the Obama Progroms....Stalin and Mao...Edi Amin...Pol Pot.
All disrupted completely and harvested the reward...Sol Lewinsky has left us a remarkable heritage.

To control us, 'Panic Events are needed from time to time...It's about time for one of those to happen.
It's like herding the sheep to a new place...they go blindly, following the shepard. Even to the edge of the clift.

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

Dry Canning is a nice way to do dry foods...beans, rice and such...those things that can be bought cheaply in bulk.

theres a thread in green living-- i got to learn about leather britches (stringing beans together and letting them dry in the breeze). Never heard of it before but it sounds much easier than strict sterilization of wet canning. Seems there's an art to that, especially when scalding pressure cookers are involved.

[suecen]

Interesting reading on worldnetdaily.com! Has anybody check out this site??