“Everyone can grow their own food!”
My parents live on a literal farm. My mother is a botanist. They are reasonably able bodied given everything (Dad is worse for wear, but try telling him that).
Growing food for two people takes all of their spare time, effort, and quite a lot of money.
My parents live on a literal farm. My mother is a botanist. They are reasonably able bodied given everything (Dad is worse for wear, but try telling him that).
Growing food for two people takes all of their spare time, effort, and quite a lot of money.
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Literally the raddest form of direct communism.
Hopefully we as a species will figure that out one day.
I put a lot of work into it and get a lot out of it, but I completely agree that it's almost impossible to be self sufficient.
That said I would still encourage people to try to produce food.
Join a local group to improve the odds of success.🌱
If you CAN, sure, try to grow food. But the list of people who can is smaller than folks like to admit.
In this way a disabled person with a garden could be connected with a landless gardener and they would share the harvest.
I can’t even keep plastic plants in good shape.
Or even neighborhoods where soil might not be good for crops (or might be contaminated from building and industry.
Our building is built on fill
We regularly find bits of glass and other building debris in the soil, which is otherwise heavily compacted clay
Those of us who garden have all bought soil because of it
Because a. while that shit is growing, they still have to eat, b. pests get at A LOT, c. shifting climate means the plants are confused, and d. even throwing themselves at it wholeheartedly, it doesn’t produce enough.
Now tell me you’re selling your condo for a homestead. I could use the laugh.
Guess how most pie in the sky communes fail?
Bad food and farm safety, followed by poor waste disposal habits.
It's not, it's just that if you want to sustain on it, you need to work a certain amount of land and put in a certain amount of workforce. Two people on half a hectare won't do that.
(src: grew up in a family of "standard" farmers)
Aaaaannnd you just keep dying of tetanus. Oh and diptheria is still a problem. As well as a surprising amount of mold.
I also would love them to point out what is even safe to eat anymore. Wild game? Pick your infectious disease. Fish? Water is polluted. How much lead is in the soil? Ffs…
Even in the best case, with local investments into condensed, vertical farming in local neighborhoods and communal allocations to go with, you'd need trade to sustain materials, and ten years to set it up to get it started/trained for.
And tea? Coffee? Wine? Sugar? Grow and grind your own wheat, or no bread?
Monsanto may bind you to a contract when they sell you seeds, but they don't have a patent that could keep your neighbor from growing whatever cross-pollinated chaos results.
Why do you think people's left the country to move to the city?
I’m afraid he’s correct.
(after all, they’ve never died before)