All you pollyannas can just move along, nothing to see here. Everthing will be taken care of. Just a temporary glitch in the matrix.
Here is today's small sampling of "food insufficiency" stories. Billy may be right, this appears to be a possible "Perfect Storm", or the fulfillment of Dr. Kissinger's proposal.
Any of you Right or Left Coasters have anything reportable on the first article? We can no longer get Lundberg Farms rice here in our town. This has happened in the last week. Food prices are going thru the roof in a big hurry, produce from the fresh sections is outta sight. Cauliflower is 3.00 +, brocolli same, Iceberg Lettuce 1.68, and these are the common items. I picked up a bag of organic gala apples at
1.98#... twelve bucks for the small bag. Unorganic apples are 1.78#. Meat and eggs are going up weekly. Gas is at 3.35 and diesel is 4.12. Oil passed 117.50 today.It's fast becoming a matter of backing up and remembering and doing as our parents and grands did, to a degree. We have some cush, just gotta give up some of the extraneous horsecrap, eh?
And enlarge our own growing capacity. Both my sons, *and* DILs are finally onboard and borrowing all the garden info and bookmarks I have.
Those hunnert and fitty issues of TMEN sittin' on the shelf are gonna be the new bibles in the future. ;-)