It's day 200 (or so) of my lockdown video diary, but who's counting? Those in control are promising "many more years" of restricted freedom and societal re-engineering. I'm now harvesting the garden I began earlier in the lockdown, in preparation for a dark, uncertain, and possibly rough winter.
Choose platform to view video (11 minutes):
▶️ LBRY aka Odysee
▶️ Bitchute
▶️ Pit of Hell
Links:
Tomato preserving blog and photo album
Stay well.
DRutter
In BC the store shelves are missing several items. Employees say "I don't know when we'll be getting that back in". Prices have stabilized somewhat, but haven't come back to normal. A surge in demand could cause a quick disappearance of most available food, and then a panic buying spree heading into winter, with a huge price spike, and people going hungry, especially the poor and disabled.
Don't forget to store some good cannabis (and other medicine) for dark times, too.
In these uncertain times, it is good to stock up on food and other things, because the world looks very complicated
Happy week to you and your family
Yes, well said. And there's a limited amount of food on the store shelves, which is why I also encourage people to do what they can to grow some food of their own, to lighten the burden. We used to ALL grow food! "Farmer" was the occupation of most of our ancestors.
Not sure why but here in Minnesota our garden’s tomatoes and peppers were both disappointing this year; usually both produce heavily, pests seemed no more of a problem than usual. Pumpkins and squash grew quite well though and we had/have a bumper crop of apples.
Storing extra food makes so much sense. FWIW, I think a lot of people are going to be caught unprepared this winter.
Thanks for your comment, and I agree with you there. I think many people have been lulled into complacency by the plentiful summer months, both because that's naturally when food is cheap, and because of how the lockdown was timed. Winter could be the perfect storm for spiking food prices and associated health/societal breakdown. Canning fresh organic homegrown tomatoes feels like currency in the bank. Hell, it's far better than currency in the bank, at this point.