#2 - If possible, raise & preserve some of your own food (gardening, edible landscaping).
Raising and preserving your own food is the best means of protecting yourself and your family from the high food inflation we are currently experiencing, as well as any future food scarcity that may occur. From a simple veggie patch in the backyard to a fully integrated forest garden with free-roaming chickens for eggs and a couple of goats for milk, the more food each of us can raise, the better off the world will be. Urban farming in community gardens, on rooftops or in containers on balconies and windowsills is especially important.
An important part of growing our own food is improving the soil we garden in. This can be done by composting, vermiculture and wise-use. Healthy soils are one of the greatest stores of future value around. The more I read of history, the more obvious the extreme importance of healthy soils. Entire civilizations were built around healthy soils. And many were destroyed either by conquest of other peoples wanting their soils, or because they destroyed their own soils.
Not only raising our own food, but preserving it for future use is important. Canning, freezing, drying and other methods can be used to store the food we raise or buy from local farmers. Most of us will probably need to supplement the food we preserve from our gardens with food we buy from the stores.
For those who cannot grow any of their own food because of health limitations or whatever other reasons, consider joining a food co-op. A food co-op directory service can be found by clicking here.
An important part of growing our own food is improving the soil we garden in. This can be done by composting, vermiculture and wise-use. Healthy soils are one of the greatest stores of future value around. The more I read of history, the more obvious the extreme importance of healthy soils. Entire civilizations were built around healthy soils. And many were destroyed either by conquest of other peoples wanting their soils, or because they destroyed their own soils.
Not only raising our own food, but preserving it for future use is important. Canning, freezing, drying and other methods can be used to store the food we raise or buy from local farmers. Most of us will probably need to supplement the food we preserve from our gardens with food we buy from the stores.
For those who cannot grow any of their own food because of health limitations or whatever other reasons, consider joining a food co-op. A food co-op directory service can be found by clicking here.
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