How to grow and store the 5 crops you need to survive

[LiberalLoner]

(Whole article at alternet, below.) Some people fear we might face a collapse similar to what the USSR went through, or possibly even worse, in the next few decades. Perhaps this information would be useful if such a calamity were to occur.

http://www.alternet.org/food/148562/food_in_uncertain_times%3A_how_to_grow_and_store_the_5_crops_you_need_to_survive/?page=entire

[thereismore]

1. Pretty interesting now in the teabagging times:

"Neanderthal stone tools, interestingly, are all found within a few miles of where the rocks originated. And the tools didn't change very much over time. But Homo sapiens that lived at the same time had tools made from rocks that were clearly traded over long distances. And H. sapiens tools changed and developed rapidly. We traded our ideas along with all our stuff. Any Neanderthal tribe that met a sapiens tribe was one tribe against an entire species. I'm a Homo sapiens, and I follow Homo sapien traditions. I aim for appropriate self-reliance, not for independence. Independence is for Neanderthals."

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. interesting

[chaska]

3. Next few decades? I'd be surprised if it weren't the next few years.

[elocs]

4. So, what do you do when the people with all the guns come to take what you have?

Ahh, if it were only so simple as growing and storing the 5 crops you need to survive. It's not. There's no going back to the romanticism of the good old agrarian days of 1900 when the U.S. population was a mere 76 million. Quaint garden plots will not feed our current population of 308 million and growing. Besides what will the millions in the inner cities do?

If life in this country collapses and falls apart to that extent it will be a preview of Hell. For those who like to immerse themselves in this sort of thing just visit http://peakoil.com/ (especially the message boards) and you will be orgasmic.

[PO Pops]

6. Quaint garden plots aren't meant to feed millions,

just your family. In America there are around 40 million people on food stamps who could do with a few spuds from their back yard.

Or are food stamps romantic?

[NEOhiodemocrat]

5. Thanks, very interesting article

bookmarked it for latter.