Most of you will not.
A few of you will.
A few ideas to help you survive,
below the divider doodle.
Most of you live in cities and towns,
and that's why most of you will die,
sometime around the year 2035,
when a terrible famine
will hit America and the world.
If you have no extra food stored in your home,
and you rely on the grocery store at least once a month,
you will starve.
If you have extra food stored in your home,
and if everyone in your city is polite,
all your neighbors will quietly starve in their homes.
If, however,
some of the folks in your home town
start acting like
some of the folks in Baltimore lately,
taking to the streets
in desperation,
you might have the police
breaking in your door,
to see if you have any food.
They have the best battering rams.
If they take your food,
and don't kill you,
you starve and die.
Or they just kill you,
and take your food.
In order to survive,
buy a farm,
rent a farm,
or ask permission to use
a small portion of a farm that is
owned by a good friend or relative.
If the farm house has a basement or cellar,
buy and stash about a year's supply of food
in that basement or cellar.
If you can't get permission
to use the farm house,
ask if you can dig your own small cellar,
somewhere on the farm,
and store your food there.
Then,
when you discover that the grocery stores
are closing down,
for lack of food to put on the shelves,
you can go to your farm,
and survive the famine.
After most folks are dead,
you can work the land at the farm,
or go back to the city,
if the farming and grazing
are better there.
I live in Kansas,
and the cities are lush and green,
even when there's a drought.
The shade from the houses and trees
helps hold the water in the soil.
The wide open spaces of Kansas
have very little greenery,
since the sun dries everything up.
So,
in Kansas,
I would go back into the city.
After nearly everyone there has died.
Why will there be such a devastating famine?
By 2035,
there will be a severe shortage of:
oil,
causing an equally sever shortage of
diesel fuel,
for the tractors, trucks, and trains,
causing an equally severe shortage of
food.
Source:
http://www.eia.gov/...
Thus, if the USGS mean resource estimate proves to be correct, if 2 percent production growth continues until peak production is reached, and if production then declines at an R/P ratio of 10, world conventional crude oil production would be expected to peak in 2037 at a volume of 53.2 billion barrels per year.
The graphs at the link show us,
we have a 95% chance of making it
to at least the year 2026,
before we reach the peak.
We only have a 5% chance of making it to 2047.
In order to work the land
in a more efficient way than the past,
at least part of your food production,
after the famine,
or starting right now,
can be with raised bed gardening.
Here is the link
to one of the best sources for ideas
for more efficient vegetable gardens:
http://squarefootgardening.org/
Step one
Build a box
Step two
Fill with Square Foot Gardening potting soil
Step three
Add a grid and start planting
It’s that simple!
The idea behind the square foot gardening method
is that your room to work the garden
is all around the box,
with no wasted space inside the box,
the box is jam packed with plants!
You can improve on this simple design;
for example,
this year,
we set up a garden
using cinder blocks
under plywood,
in two levels,
with kiddie pools as ready made boxes,
and fabric Walmart shopping bags,
inside the kiddie pools,
and cheap Atwoods topsoil,
inside the shopping bags.
We use Ecos laundry soap,
and the washing machine,
located just inside the back door of the house,
drains into the top pool,
and a hole on the side,
an inch from the bottom,
drains into the other pool,
and another hole in the other pool,
makes a nasty mud puddle right where I hang up my clothes on the clothesline.
But I need it located there,
to catch the afternoon sun.
The first part of this diary
is somber and depressing.
But I don't know how to tell you the truth
about the coming famine
without disturbing you a little bit.
So I gave you the garden,
since gardens cheer people up.
But if you plant a garden in the city,
your neighbors will see it.
Then,
when there is no more food in the grocery stores,
your neighbors might ask,
any food for us?
At that point,
you will need to get in your vehicle,
and go to your farm,
away from the city.
Away from neighbors
who might want to kill you,
and take what you have.
Also,
can you really feed your family
on a few cucumbers and tomatoes?
I think you might want
goat milk, butter, and cheese,
chicken eggs,
duck eggs,
goose eggs.
Maybe an acre or so of wheat.
But the raised beds,
if you make enough of them,
might be a much smarter way
to give your family
plenty of potatoes and beans,
cucumbers and melons,
and canned tomatoes to last all year.
Bending over a little
is so much easier than going all the way to the ground.
I want to make this a regular blog,
but to do so,
I need to write something,
every other day.
Maybe I'll shoot for Wednesdays and Fridays.
And I need to get started
making videos for YouTube.
Thanks for reading.