• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    A vegetable garden? LOL so you can get one tomato after 6 weeks? What are you going to eat in the meantime?

    People are completely clueless and disconnected from reality.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfmYNNo-4U

    This is what one couple needs to actually grow stuff. And that’s just fruits and vegetables.

    And what freaking inputs in the form of plastic, fertilizers, pesticides are they using?

    • Zron@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      There’s a difference between supplemental gardening and full on self sufficient farming.

      I had a garden for years that I started in the spring every year, and reduced my grocery bills by about half.

      tomatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, potatoes and cucumbers are all staple crops that can be gardened in abundance on basically any 1/4 acre plot in the US. Most of these are either shelf stable for extended periods on their own or can be canned at home for winter use.

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        Who has a 1/4 acre plot, and the knowledge, tools, and chemicals to grow the food? You have the seeds ready to go? You’re confident in the face of a global food shortage you’ll just snap your fingers and Disneyfy your way to “staple foods”?

        How about buying canned produce, learning to preserve the food you can still buy now, dry beans, rice, etc? And then try to see if the knowledge we’ve lost as a culture wrt subsistence can be re-learned quickly and painlessly?

        I don’t think so.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      You do not need to replace your entire diet with home grown produce. Supplement the food you buy from the store with whatever you can grow in the small area you have. You can get a surprisingly good haul from 25ft².

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    4 hours ago

    When agricultural processes are invented that allow the population to grow by billions, what’s the first thing people do? Rush to fill the extra capacity. Sure would be nice if we had the prudence to maintain a buffer.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    In case anyone was wodering how much damage a single idiot in the White House can cause.

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      40 minutes ago

      He’s just the idiot in the front, there are real masterminds behind all this who are manipulating the orange dipshit to their advantage. Project 2025 is some scary shit for Americans and soon, earth as a whole.

  • Cattail@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I’m glad I started growing wolffia globosa. Gonna help supplement a lot of meals. Kinda sucks that I got sick and neglected it and got set back a few weeks, but I have enough to sees other colonies