Surviving a food shortage

there are major differences between the GD and now. The major difference being more people really on 100% of their food from a super market. Learn to grow your own, seed your property for wild animals to eat, you may need to eat them one day. If you live in a city you are pretty screwed, just the way the nwo wants it. You will need to rely on the government to give you what they see fit.
 
If you think there's an upcoming food shortage, you should consider moving with the Free State Project. In a crisis, being part of a large and growing libertarian community will help a lot. It's better than facing it alone anyway.
 
It very much depends on where ya live. Just think of the basic things you need and like, many things food wise can be produced abundantly in a very small area. Do alot of research based on your living situation, geographical locale and plan ahead.
 
I've already left the city and am living on the coast, growing potatoes and other veges, have a rooster (that wakes me up at 3 am) and hens who lay eggs i can't find. I'm thinking of buying a cow and making my own butter and cheese. We live in a dairy country and pay through the nose for dairy products because it is exported. The Phillipinos can't afford the rice they grow. Grains have increased 130% in the last 12 months.
We are so lucky in this country. Things grow so easily and i have fish in the sea just outside my door.
 
Get that book that BW4Paul recommended. I haven't read it, but I've seen it recommended from multiple sources.

While you are waiting on it to arrive or whatever, go to

http://survivalreportblog.com/

and read volumes 59-61 ;) Then read the other articles after.
 
My mom told me that her grandparents made it through the GD by having no unsecured debt, having a productive garden and knowing how to preserve the results, and by being willing to rent out rooms to those who could pay cash.

The first two I'm well situated with, I COULD rent the Mother-in-Law "suite" of the house, but it has no kitchen facilities and I would lose my washer and dryer. This is assuming I block it off, which I'm not sure I want to do. I've been thinking about ways to reconfigure things so I can close that area off, thereby being able to rent it without losing privacy. I can see a small kitchenette where the washer and dryer are, but I've not figured out where to put MY washer and dryer yet.....LOL, I'll probably be washing by hand......
 
most self sustaining lifestyle books tell you cows are the worst thing to have for food supply... as you can probably guess, unless you acres of nice grass for them to graze upon, the amount of grains needed to feed them far outweigh the milk/butter output.
 
raystone said:
most self sustaining lifestyle books tell you cows are the worst thing to have for food supply... as you can probably guess, unless you acres of nice grass for them to graze upon, the amount of grains needed to feed them far outweigh the milk/butter output.
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Goats are better. They can eat the neigbors grass.
 
Nicketas said:
How does one go about surviving a food shortage, recession, or depression?
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Having the skills and land to have a garden is important (don't need much land). I think it would help to have a support community of people like you, so joining the Free State Project might be a good idea.
 
seapilot said:
Goats are better. They can eat the neigbors grass.
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Agreed - my little community is looking in to goats- they're pretty small, will eat all kinds of plants, produce a fair amount of milk (one dairy cow makes 11 gallons a day- more than we need), plus you can eat goat meat, and they multiply pretty fast apparently. They can be hooked up to pull a plow too- though I don't really know much about them yet, we hope to have some in a few months... right now it's planting season, then we need chickens, then goats.
 
Food shortage? Come on...there is no real food shortage, but an inflated commodity agri bubble brewing. I am not saying that their is not pain going on and a "turning back the clocks" on the fight against poverty globally because of this bubble, but it is not based upon an actual "shortage of food," in my humble opinion.....

EDIT for clarification: While personal eating habits are probably increasing the demand of the agri commody sector to a certain extent, the dramatic increase (at least in prices of corn and wheat) is definitely not the result of the increased consumption but rather a direct result of incompetent politicians doing what they do best...wasting money. Add to that the excess sector liquidity that is being driven by greed and fear. Ethanol and other alternative grain based fuel subsidies are absolutely ridiculous, stupid and irrational.
 
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Agreed - my little community is looking in to goats- they're pretty small, will eat all kinds of plants, produce a fair amount of milk (one dairy cow makes 11 gallons a day- more than we need), plus you can eat goat meat, and they multiply pretty fast apparently. They can be hooked up to pull a plow too- though I don't really know much about them yet, we hope to have some in a few months... right now it's planting season, then we need chickens, then goats.
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Just make sure you can keep your goats out of your crops.
 
Hunger in America - BILL MOYERS Journal CNN PBS ABC MSNBC CBS FOX reports straving...

grizzums said:
Food shortage? Come on...there is no real food shortage, but an inflated commodity agri bubble brewing. I am not saying that their is not pain going on and a "turning back the clocks" on the fight against poverty globally because of this bubble, but it is not based upon an actual "shortage of food," in my humble opinion.....

EDIT for clarification: While personal eating habits are probably increasing the demand of the agri commody sector to a certain extent, the dramatic increase (at least in prices of corn and wheat) is definitely not the result of the increased consumption but rather a direct result of incompetent politicians doing what they do best...wasting money. Add to that the excess sector liquidity that is being driven by greed and fear. Ethanol and other alternative grain based fuel subsidies are absolutely ridiculous, stupid and irrational.
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EXACTLY!

here's a little factual blurb for Bill Moyers Journal on FOOD/HUNGER (Great Facts!):

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04112008/profile4.html
 
DrCap said:
Agreed - my little community is looking in to goats- they're pretty small, will eat all kinds of plants, produce a fair amount of milk (one dairy cow makes 11 gallons a day- more than we need), plus you can eat goat meat, and they multiply pretty fast apparently. They can be hooked up to pull a plow too- though I don't really know much about them yet, we hope to have some in a few months... right now it's planting season, then we need chickens, then goats.
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Just as an FYI, the only meat I had access to (aside from fish) for a year, was goat meat.

It is freaking godawful. It tasted and smelled like rotten meat. Can't speak to their milk.
 
anatomy of a food shortage

Government causes inflation by expanding the money supply. Prices go up. WAY up. People protest high food prices. Government institutes price controls on food. Holding prices artificially below market exchange rate causes shortage. This is happening right now in other parts of the world and will happen here as well.

I just bought some chickens yesterday for eggs. They require feed to be at top efficiency, but will also eat bugs, weeds, garden waste and table scraps.

I am installing a rain harvesting system for drinking water and to water the vegetable garden I am putting in.

I have also put up a couple hundred pounds of beans and grain along with cooking oil, canned meat, dried fruit, nuts, etc.

That, plus hunting and gathering in the desert nearby will hopefully see me (and a few friends and family members) through the worst.
 
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