I began an Armageddon garden this spring, for a number of reasons.
With gas prices at $2.17 in my neck of the woods, the cost of going to the store to get tomatoes is more than the cost of the tomatoes themselves. Financially it makes sense to grow my own food in my own ground, using water, which last time I checked was still a renewable resource.
I'm also paranoid about the future. The election in 2006 will tell us whether we're living in a police state or if we're still in an elected democracy. We don't know whether our transportation will be still usable, whether we'll even be able to get gas in two years, or if we're going to have to start walking everywhere we go. Sources of food would become scarce, in this Armageddon version of reality.
If Bush and his cadre of theocrats are right, Armageddon is coming and 51% of America will be taken up to Heaven. I'm pretty sure I'm not going, and I want to be prepared.
I recommend that everybody with a bit of ground to plow do the same. My garden isn't big enough to feed all of you!
I've planted tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, field greens, and salsify in my Armageddon garden. In a barter economy, I can trade my vegetables for meat and eggs. Maybe I'll expand and start raising chickens and rabbits. Although I don't think I could kill a wabbit; perhaps hunger will change my mind.
The only problem is cheese. Making cheese takes milk and several months. I don't know if I could do without cheese after Armageddon comes.
I suppose I need to dig a hole for the bomb shelter next. Sigh... I'm running out of yard.