Safety in a Failing Economy

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Originally Posted by atomiczombie

What I keep thinking about as I read this thread is that most poor people simply can't do this kind of stuff. They have no land where they can grow food. They have no money to buy disaster supplies. They get by on so little that keeping a roof over their heads and food in their mouths is hard enough, let alone investing time and money into gardening and solar power, etc. I like the idea of community gardens, but they aren't enough to keep people regularly fed.

In disasters, it's always the poorest of the poor (and disproportionately, those people are POC) who get hit the hardest. I am thinking of Katrina here as an example. They couldn't prepare and get out because they had no cars/gas money, etc to get out before the hurricane hit. People who are poor and live in urban areas would have the hardest time pulling off sustainable living. It's sad but true.

My grandparents were poor but they was proud folk. This is where folks learn to take care of one another. One hand washes the other. People will share their seed with one another, they would share their canned or dried or cured meat with one another. You can only eat so much so fast and you don't want it to go bad before it's eaten. It doesn't take a lot of land to have a garden. You can use boxes, hay bales, drink crates, buckets anything you can throw some dirt in. I think one of the things people don't realize is how much waste there is in gardening, now during modern times. You plant it, it grows, you give some away, eat some can or freeze some and you are tired of fooling with it and you let it grow up. Back in the day you didn't do that. You ate from the garden until the frost got it and if you were smart you covered the delicate things and got up just before the sun and turned the water on the garden to get the frost off the plants. Best thing to do is plant a fall garden in the shade and it will make it threw several frosty days, and the very best thing to do is only plant the hardy green stuff in the fall. But again as for land you don't have to have a bunch of land to make a garden. My Dad plants his around the eaves of his house. And there are many things you can put in rows together if you do have a tiny plot of land to work with, example plant corn and when it comes up plant green beans in the corn, the beans will crawl the corn, you have 2 crops in one row.

Sachita I haven't noticed or seen you say that you are but I hope you are saving and turning and drying that chicken poop and tilling it in with your garden or whatever soil you are using. It's to stout to put straight on your garden ya have to let it dry out. Alpaca poop is the best thing in the world for organic gardening and you can put it straight on the garden.