Gardening

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.