so I might have to resort to a CSA. Unfortunately I hate most of the root vegetables and cabbage-family they include in their packages, but I might have to learn to like turnips, kale and Brussels sprouts.

Took the last couple years and tried new techniques for growing the veggies. Most important thing in my book is soil remediation after harvest. Fertilizer may become more expensive it’s already one of the leading expenses.
Comfrey is a great solution, its NPK is good…N 1.80. P 0.05 K 7.09. That’s for russian comfrey which doesn’t spread like regular comfrey.

We start our seeds in grow tents in our garage which we ‘converted’ into our first floor basement. We’ve moved some of the garden inside the house. We’re going to try to grow lettuce and tomatoes inside under a grow light with exposure to southern exposure. Then we start our peppers, cabbage, tomatoes in the grow tents for establishing ‘starts’ for the bale garden, greenhouse and the raised beds.

Then it’s the medicinal foraging that’s going to be important. Around me we have Prunella Vulgaris growing profusely, it’s a kinda wonder herb.

https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_prunella_vulgaris_used_for/article.htm

Red Clover, Meadowsweet, Red Raspberry leaves, Bee Balm, Dandelion, Plantain, are all medicinal herbs we use to ward off sickness and boost our immunities. We got all the vaccines and along with our medicinals we haven’t been sick for years.

And I hear there's a new product that will soon be at the markets, something called Soylent Green...



The prophesized world of 2022 comes just a little late.

I suspect Trump will be hands-off with regards to California produce, which is where I live and the primary business of my community. Most of my neighbors are immigrants or their parents were.

Much of the nation is going to take a big hit in food prices and availability. Those off-season and frozen blueberries that now come from Peru, for example, are going to end up in China instead.

My great grandmothers canned, pickled, or dried every kind of food. So does my wife's dad. Their gardens were mostly planted with that in mind.

My favorite food preservation machine is my dehydrator. That's not really "green" however and electricity here is expensive, especially in the hours between 4 and 9 PM when solar cuts out and demand is still high. I haven't yet experimented with adding some kind of thermal mass to my dehydrator stack and running it on a timer.

Hunting and fishing are not skills I passed onto my children. In any extended crisis our wild places are going to be flooded with armed idiots who think they can live off the land like their ancestors did.