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Comment by Sweettina2 on October 12, 2010 at 6:20pm

Thanks for that info, looking up "Square Foot Gardening" now, sounds like its right up my alley! Thank you so much.

Comment by Snardley Farkus on October 12, 2010 at 5:14pm

Heh, as much as I love getting my ego polished, I'm afraid I can't take credit for this idea. The fact that we even have these thousands of varieties of heirloom genetics is the result of generations of gardeners and farmers saving their very best seed and sharing it with neighbors. Yeah, and I wanted to have a busy little crisis community going by now here in the mountains, but that's going to have to wait til everyone realizes that "Happy Motoring" and weekends at the Mall are things of the past. Oh well, ya play the hand yer dealt. Definitely look into container gardening right where you are. There are people in California who are generating five figures a year from a quarter acre yard by selling year round to restaurants. Modern organic gardening has made some startling advances in the past twenty years. Google "Square Foot Gardening." Anything you grow and eat yourself frees up the cash you would have spent on it at the supermarket for something else.

Comment by Sweettina2 on October 12, 2010 at 4:41pm

Awesome! you are one smart cookie! I agree, preserving the traditional/heirloom seeds are very important. I try to choose those when buying them. I am stocking back some good bagged soil every chance I get. I buy organic lettuce in plastic tubs and save them to start my seeds. I wanted to be moved to the mountains before the shtf, but it doesnt look like I'll make it, but am thinking along the lines of growing in containers if I have to.

Comment by Snardley Farkus on October 12, 2010 at 8:57am

"Absolutely! I have been buying non-gmo seeds and will be worth much when folks figure out they have to grow their food."

Very smart! But I may have gone you one better. Of course I live in a rural area so this option was available. I share my best open pollination seed, which has the advantage of being very well acclimated to the regional growing conditions, with other gardeners around me. My only requirement is that they share openly with others as I have. I make a record of who has what and it would take a nuke to wipe out my "seed bank." the toughest problem is finding gardeners who understand the importance of preserving traditional varieties.

Comment by Sweettina2 on October 12, 2010 at 1:38am

I am even storing back medicinal plant seeds from that site.

Comment by Sweettina2 on October 12, 2010 at 1:37am

Absolutely! I have been buying non-gmo seeds from www.genericseeds.com, they are cheap and will be worth much when folks figure out they have to grow their food.

Comment by Snardley Farkus on October 10, 2010 at 10:09am

Me too, the Internet is awash with this kind of info. I am pleased that you brought the subject up. On a site dedicated to the ideological evisceration of the New World Order I would have thought the question of food and medicine would be a burning topic. We have been sold on industrial food and medicine and it is making us sick in record numbers. The solution of course is obvious, cheap, and immediately available, but somehow not on the table. We have to learn again how to produce our own food and medicine locally. There is no other way. And the sooner we start the better for all. The first step will be to wake up from the lies we have been told.

Comment by Sweettina2 on October 9, 2010 at 9:09pm

Right on Snardly, I have a great sites I go to for herbal plant info.

Comment by Snardley Farkus on October 9, 2010 at 9:00pm

There is an extensive herbal pharmacopea which we have ignored too long. Ginger, Mint, Garlic, Cabbage, lemon juice, apple cider, Plantain, and Comfrey. Simple universally available remedies that in most cases would make it unnecessary to go to the Doctor.