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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A vegetable garden? LOL so you can get one tomato after 6 weeks? What are you going to eat in the meantime?

  People are completely clueless and disconnected from reality.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPfmYNNo-4U

  This is what one couple needs to actually grow stuff. And that’s just fruits and vegetables.

  And what freaking inputs in the form of plastic, fertilizers, pesticides are they using?

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a difference between supplemental gardening and full on self sufficient farming.

    I had a garden for years that I started in the spring every year, and reduced my grocery bills by about half.

    tomatoes, onions, carrots, garlic, potatoes and cucumbers are all staple crops that can be gardened in abundance on basically any 1/4 acre plot in the US. Most of these are either shelf stable for extended periods on their own or can be canned at home for winter use.

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who has a 1/4 acre plot, and the knowledge, tools, and chemicals to grow the food? You have the seeds ready to go? You’re confident in the face of a global food shortage you’ll just snap your fingers and Disneyfy your way to “staple foods”?

      How about buying canned produce, learning to preserve the food you can still buy now, dry beans, rice, etc? And then try to see if the knowledge we’ve lost as a culture wrt subsistence can be re-learned quickly and painlessly?

      I don’t think so.

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  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You do not need to replace your entire diet with home grown produce. Supplement the food you buy from the store with whatever you can grow in the small area you have. You can get a surprisingly good haul from 25ft².

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      aka hobby

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dude, I’ve been filling my pantry with grains since the pandemic.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But hey, at least both floods and droughts are becoming more common which is great for crops!

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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably not, ammonia production isn’t exactly a huge portion of natural gas usage, it’ll just have to compete on price with other demands, other things with lower value will get priced out of the market long before nitrogen fertilizer. The price for it will probably go up, already has on futures markets, but not by a huge amount, not even the biggest blip in the past decade. And nitrogen fertilizer is a fairly small portion of overall costs for most agriculture, so it won’t be a significant increase in price.

  The places it might have an impact are on products with really narrow profit margins already, like commodity corn in the US (actually a lot of commodity corn breaks even or even is grown at a slight loss because reasons ) and a lot of that goes in to non-food uses like ethanol(for gas), chemical production, or even for use in construction materials.

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  • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Amazing video link. Makes me want to grow my own organic free range tax breaks!

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d rather make someone else do it by offering things in trade. Almost like some kind of barter system. I’ll fix your garden tools and equipment just feed me plz.

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I read the title in the same voice as youtube’s “That’s how the law works.”

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• Burghler@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And Zack Galifianakis is doing an agrarian tv show promoting doing your own farming, wise comedian

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• Cattail@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m glad I started growing wolffia globosa. Gonna help supplement a lot of meals. Kinda sucks that I got sick and neglected it and got set back a few weeks, but I have enough to sees other colonies

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• FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  grains and pulses

  What are pulses?

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  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lentils

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Authorities say:

  NO!

  _{(But actually its yes)}

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