Be careful, you might be accused of illegally using THEIR sunlight and THEIR CO2 and THEIR non-Euclidean spaces.
You may own your plot of land, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. You may be damaging interstate commerce by affecting prices of potatoes, OH MY!
My daughter is learning to be a farmer...on a regular city-sized lot. She bought six 'girls' who she feeds the best food possible...and they are now laying eggs. Every hen has a name; and a colored band on its leg to tell them apart. We planted 12 trees, when we moved here. Some of them have provided fruit.. My daughter bought canning equipment. Hopefully there will be a good harvest and she will be able to follow directions; and jar it. Everybody has to think ahead and be a pioneer. This is something everyone used to do in the past.
Work in communities. Each growing what they know or like and sharing/trading.
Weather warfare is not helping. Cloudy cutting sun, raining poison, toxifying soil, us, trees, animals. Cycling cold, hot. Certain CO areas in 60s last week, then snow, 60s, now a blizzard… up to 24” tomorrow next few days.
Weather warfare is closely linked to food warfare, medical warfare etc. We navigate as best we can. The deteriorating ozone layer is wrecking havoc on my fruit trees. They still produce, but the trunks are scorched real bad.
Isn't ozone warfare, the first in fear based ozone & weather doom psychosis? Or are you saying it's real & were all soon gunna die, IF we don't act now?
I have very little success with potatoes here in SE Pa--my soil pH is too high (6.8, 6.9). My suggestion to all gardeners is: get your soil tested. A soil test will also save you many $ on unneeded fertilizer.
Hi, Karen. HOW did your potatoes fail? I have never worried about soil pH because my soil is so full of humus. Potatoes do need regular watering though not saturation; without sufficient water, you will have more scab on your potatoes though the scab does not make them inedible. You don't want to over-fertilize; my partner did this one year and grew hundreds of pea-sized potatoes! I think Fedco in Clinton, Maine, has a potato fertilizer though I have never used it (I do use blueberry booster and asparagus fertilizer from them). It's important for potatoes to have sufficient soil calcium; insufficient calcium will lead to hollow heart (a brown rot in the middle of the potato). I dry and crush eggshells to add to my soil.
Did you have potato bugs? If you did, you need to pick them off, preferably when they're in the larval stage. This mean turning leaves over and looking for egg masses which you can just crush with your fingers. The only other thing I can think of is blight; late blight causes the potatoes to simply rot and must be treated seriously. I don't know where you are, but we had a lot of rain in Maine last summer, and that can cause problems unless your garden is well-drained (lots of humus in soil solves that problem).
The engineered food crisis will only accelerate the fall of the NWO and its fetishists. This because of the actions of countries against NWO. Russia for instance,
The NWO gang will blame the climate, activists will blame war and other racketeers for messing up environment but real action ( = making a difference) does not exist, except in countries against NWO.
You are wrong. I live in Russia and see that the government is following the instructions of the globalist sect. And Russia’s war with a neighboring country is also an order of the Swabians.
Again controlled opposition.... thank you for your comment ... Russia 🇷🇺 is communist right⁉️NWO is complete authorization control of humanity under a communist/fascist form of government.... it certainly isn’t democratic ‼️elections are theater 🎭 I am most certain .... 😵💫🥴
The US has been very successful in setting up so called "5th columns". In Russia there still are so called "Atlanticists" who agree with everything WEF & WHO order. Medvedev (former president of the RF) once was pro-West but changed his mind in reverse. The WEF and WHO are pro GMO but the RF policy is against GMO. Especially older people are still under the influence of probably the greatest propaganda machine ever, in the form of the late Willis Conover:
Excellent. We have close to 40 farms in our area aside from what we grow, we’re always hitting up the farmers markets etc. - they tell you what/how and when* they’re food is grown/raised, it’s just smarter. Sucks for those who don’t have access like that though, I’m grateful for being in this part of the land.
Marjory Wildcrafts series TGN, the grow network is a great place to learn how to grow inexpensively and even in emergency situations, she’s awesome. There are no-dig options I wasn’t aware of which are great too!
Also get in tune with the Amish communities in case SHTF. I spoke to a few of them over the years, they’re super nice ppl - Even recently as of last year I questioned what would happen if our grocers were unavailable, would we be able to come to them for foods and he said of course, as long as they had enough for their own they’d help us so that’s important I believe to go and visit them and foster relations with their community.
Haven't tilled or spaded in years except for the tomato patch to kill hornworm larvae. Just pull the mulch aside and make a hole for a seed or plant! The quality of what I have grown is superb, can't find any local organic potatoes that can begin to compare, and I think it is due to the careful nurturing of the soil and no rototilling.
Thank you John I read it and I shared it.... and I appreciate your profession and have understood for some years of the dilemma you farmers face with Big Ag🥴🥵🙏🏼💋
I really hope that more people read your Stack..so important to educate our dummies who seek entertainment and pleasure and no education awareness or any critical thinking what so ever......and FOOD IS OUR BEST MEDICINE and we have let BIG AG destroy our food and our farmers for profit and whatever other sick agenda they have in store for us. Please keep writing we must not be silenced or censored...I can't bare it😓🙏🏼🙏🏼🤷🏼♀️😵💫
I greatly appreciate the encouragement -- it sometimes feels like I am screaming alone in the forest. The feedback and growth of this substack gives me hope. I will be republishing some old articles in due course -- warning years ago about the food crisis. Healthy food is the antidote to toxic food; self-reliance for food is the antidote to globalist tyranny. Please stay tuned.... :)
The EU is in a worse position: no resources, war on farmers going on, millions of fortune seekers w/o education to do something worthwhile and constructive. IOW no resources to build anything, let alone "back & better". Now, compare with this:
Perhaps two years ago in my area (Phila suburbs) home veg. gardeners were 'encouraged' to register their gardens with local authorities. No logical or beneficial-to-gardener reason was given. Creeped me out.
Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity talks about this all the time, and about starting a "deep pantry" (stock up on nonperishable staples) as inflation will keep hitting. Having produce to trade also seems like a good idea in a decentralized small community world. My niece, who used to sell exotic sprouts to LA restaurants, but left LA for the desert, has a lot of good advice, like growing "sacrificial eggplants" to draw bugs away from tomatoes. I know people keeping chickens in Seattle, in Texas and in Joshua Tree. It is hard to come out of denial around the probable coming collapse, but it seems vital, literally.
There's no reason why people can't grow at least one thing that they eat. I've been begging people to garden for years. Growing food is one of the most liberating things a person can do. It's healthier, tastier, and safer than going to the store. And... the more people who do it, the harder it is for "them" to stop us. Even if a person is in an apartment with no yard, a sunny windowsill can be a place to grow lots of lettuce. Growing at least one thing is better than nothing... even if all it is is a basil plant.
I started using low hoops for winter garden 3 years ago. Sunday the coldframe which my husband has been making for me (hadn't had one since '87) was finished and went into use: cabbages in it now. I always make a chart of what will go into which (vegetable) bed, but this year made it a 3 season chart for spring, summer, and fall into winter. Working vegetable and fruit gardens both in Pa and Me.
If we can print money in perpetuity, how can anyone, anywhere be starving of homeless? What do the wokies say about that? What if all of Gates “generous” donations went to clean water and food? Actually effective medicines and care facilities. Nah, just jab everything under the sun incessantly. That should work.
I used Kelloggs organic soil. I followed all the directions I found on growing potatoes and what I got was a few tiny potatoes. There are many ways to grow potatoes and I will try another method thus year.
Just a note to Mainers: If you buy your seed potatoes and they have been grown in Maine -- Wood Prairie is my favorite -- your yield can be at least double Dr Nass's. I normally get 20 pounds of potatoes from 1 pound of seed potatoes, but have gotten 25 pounds from some varieties. The reason is that the seed potatoes were grown in your local day-length conditions.
Be careful, you might be accused of illegally using THEIR sunlight and THEIR CO2 and THEIR non-Euclidean spaces.
You may own your plot of land, but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it. You may be damaging interstate commerce by affecting prices of potatoes, OH MY!
Or chocking us with potato farts.
My daughter is learning to be a farmer...on a regular city-sized lot. She bought six 'girls' who she feeds the best food possible...and they are now laying eggs. Every hen has a name; and a colored band on its leg to tell them apart. We planted 12 trees, when we moved here. Some of them have provided fruit.. My daughter bought canning equipment. Hopefully there will be a good harvest and she will be able to follow directions; and jar it. Everybody has to think ahead and be a pioneer. This is something everyone used to do in the past.
Work in communities. Each growing what they know or like and sharing/trading.
Weather warfare is not helping. Cloudy cutting sun, raining poison, toxifying soil, us, trees, animals. Cycling cold, hot. Certain CO areas in 60s last week, then snow, 60s, now a blizzard… up to 24” tomorrow next few days.
Weather warfare is closely linked to food warfare, medical warfare etc. We navigate as best we can. The deteriorating ozone layer is wrecking havoc on my fruit trees. They still produce, but the trunks are scorched real bad.
Isn't ozone warfare, the first in fear based ozone & weather doom psychosis? Or are you saying it's real & were all soon gunna die, IF we don't act now?
WOW. How did you grow the potatoes?? I tried to grow potatoes last year and it was a total failure. The only success I had was growing tomatoes.
I have very little success with potatoes here in SE Pa--my soil pH is too high (6.8, 6.9). My suggestion to all gardeners is: get your soil tested. A soil test will also save you many $ on unneeded fertilizer.
Thanks.
You say potato I say potah-toe, you say tomato I say tomah-toe
Meryl’s point: we can’t call the whole thing off.
Hi, Karen. HOW did your potatoes fail? I have never worried about soil pH because my soil is so full of humus. Potatoes do need regular watering though not saturation; without sufficient water, you will have more scab on your potatoes though the scab does not make them inedible. You don't want to over-fertilize; my partner did this one year and grew hundreds of pea-sized potatoes! I think Fedco in Clinton, Maine, has a potato fertilizer though I have never used it (I do use blueberry booster and asparagus fertilizer from them). It's important for potatoes to have sufficient soil calcium; insufficient calcium will lead to hollow heart (a brown rot in the middle of the potato). I dry and crush eggshells to add to my soil.
Did you have potato bugs? If you did, you need to pick them off, preferably when they're in the larval stage. This mean turning leaves over and looking for egg masses which you can just crush with your fingers. The only other thing I can think of is blight; late blight causes the potatoes to simply rot and must be treated seriously. I don't know where you are, but we had a lot of rain in Maine last summer, and that can cause problems unless your garden is well-drained (lots of humus in soil solves that problem).
The engineered food crisis will only accelerate the fall of the NWO and its fetishists. This because of the actions of countries against NWO. Russia for instance,
https://www.txtreport.com/news/2023-08-02-ambassador-of-yemen--russia-sent-shipments-of-grain-for-free--and-we-aspire-to-establish-a-shipping-line-between-us.By-KThwjn.html
https://russia-islworld.ru/novosti/zakharova-announces-russias-shipment-of-over-140-tons-of-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza-residents-2023-11-15-37625/
The NWO gang will blame the climate, activists will blame war and other racketeers for messing up environment but real action ( = making a difference) does not exist, except in countries against NWO.
For instance, https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2023/39/e3sconf_transsiberia2023_09015.pdf
You are wrong. I live in Russia and see that the government is following the instructions of the globalist sect. And Russia’s war with a neighboring country is also an order of the Swabians.
Again controlled opposition.... thank you for your comment ... Russia 🇷🇺 is communist right⁉️NWO is complete authorization control of humanity under a communist/fascist form of government.... it certainly isn’t democratic ‼️elections are theater 🎭 I am most certain .... 😵💫🥴
In the RF, at least you might enjoy better food:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20150918/1027188315.html
The US has been very successful in setting up so called "5th columns". In Russia there still are so called "Atlanticists" who agree with everything WEF & WHO order. Medvedev (former president of the RF) once was pro-West but changed his mind in reverse. The WEF and WHO are pro GMO but the RF policy is against GMO. Especially older people are still under the influence of probably the greatest propaganda machine ever, in the form of the late Willis Conover:
https://www.newsweek.com/dj-who-shook-soviet-union-jazz-360935
I pray you are right..... We are vulnerable in the US even without a NWO....
Excellent. We have close to 40 farms in our area aside from what we grow, we’re always hitting up the farmers markets etc. - they tell you what/how and when* they’re food is grown/raised, it’s just smarter. Sucks for those who don’t have access like that though, I’m grateful for being in this part of the land.
Marjory Wildcrafts series TGN, the grow network is a great place to learn how to grow inexpensively and even in emergency situations, she’s awesome. There are no-dig options I wasn’t aware of which are great too!
Also get in tune with the Amish communities in case SHTF. I spoke to a few of them over the years, they’re super nice ppl - Even recently as of last year I questioned what would happen if our grocers were unavailable, would we be able to come to them for foods and he said of course, as long as they had enough for their own they’d help us so that’s important I believe to go and visit them and foster relations with their community.
We must all support AMOS MILLER.
If they succeed in crushing him, they can take out many small producers.
He was covered on the Highwire I believe & I agree, I’m concerned about that kind of thing transpiring here in canada as well, good call!
I last used a tiller in 2000, last turned the soil in '18. I'm a no-dig gardener now (although I do have a broadfork).
Haven't tilled or spaded in years except for the tomato patch to kill hornworm larvae. Just pull the mulch aside and make a hole for a seed or plant! The quality of what I have grown is superb, can't find any local organic potatoes that can begin to compare, and I think it is due to the careful nurturing of the soil and no rototilling.
How apropos. Here is my article this morning on why America faces a food crisis. I'm a farmer and I have studied this for decades:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/03/the_real_threat_to_your_way_of_life.html
Thank you John I read it and I shared it.... and I appreciate your profession and have understood for some years of the dilemma you farmers face with Big Ag🥴🥵🙏🏼💋
Big ag destroyed the family farms, including the bulk tank requirements that pushed my grandfather out of dairying....
I really hope that more people read your Stack..so important to educate our dummies who seek entertainment and pleasure and no education awareness or any critical thinking what so ever......and FOOD IS OUR BEST MEDICINE and we have let BIG AG destroy our food and our farmers for profit and whatever other sick agenda they have in store for us. Please keep writing we must not be silenced or censored...I can't bare it😓🙏🏼🙏🏼🤷🏼♀️😵💫
I greatly appreciate the encouragement -- it sometimes feels like I am screaming alone in the forest. The feedback and growth of this substack gives me hope. I will be republishing some old articles in due course -- warning years ago about the food crisis. Healthy food is the antidote to toxic food; self-reliance for food is the antidote to globalist tyranny. Please stay tuned.... :)
The EU is in a worse position: no resources, war on farmers going on, millions of fortune seekers w/o education to do something worthwhile and constructive. IOW no resources to build anything, let alone "back & better". Now, compare with this:
https://tadviser.com/index.php/Article:Food_industry_in_Russia
Wow!
2Meg people are a drop in the 8Gig people, from each some 7.5Gig are labeled "useless eaters", while the remaining 0.5Gig are labeled "slaves".
I have and intend to expand my plot to grow more. Q: What if NWO appoint 'food police'??
Have organic seeds, and storing more.
Perhaps two years ago in my area (Phila suburbs) home veg. gardeners were 'encouraged' to register their gardens with local authorities. No logical or beneficial-to-gardener reason was given. Creeped me out.
That would creep me out too. Here in NZ that would be difficult to police. City Councils are a worry! Kia Kaha - stay strong.
Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity talks about this all the time, and about starting a "deep pantry" (stock up on nonperishable staples) as inflation will keep hitting. Having produce to trade also seems like a good idea in a decentralized small community world. My niece, who used to sell exotic sprouts to LA restaurants, but left LA for the desert, has a lot of good advice, like growing "sacrificial eggplants" to draw bugs away from tomatoes. I know people keeping chickens in Seattle, in Texas and in Joshua Tree. It is hard to come out of denial around the probable coming collapse, but it seems vital, literally.
There's no reason why people can't grow at least one thing that they eat. I've been begging people to garden for years. Growing food is one of the most liberating things a person can do. It's healthier, tastier, and safer than going to the store. And... the more people who do it, the harder it is for "them" to stop us. Even if a person is in an apartment with no yard, a sunny windowsill can be a place to grow lots of lettuce. Growing at least one thing is better than nothing... even if all it is is a basil plant.
I started using low hoops for winter garden 3 years ago. Sunday the coldframe which my husband has been making for me (hadn't had one since '87) was finished and went into use: cabbages in it now. I always make a chart of what will go into which (vegetable) bed, but this year made it a 3 season chart for spring, summer, and fall into winter. Working vegetable and fruit gardens both in Pa and Me.
If we can print money in perpetuity, how can anyone, anywhere be starving of homeless? What do the wokies say about that? What if all of Gates “generous” donations went to clean water and food? Actually effective medicines and care facilities. Nah, just jab everything under the sun incessantly. That should work.
God bless you Meryl for sharing so much valuable information! We live in UPSIDE DOWN WORLD! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I used Kelloggs organic soil. I followed all the directions I found on growing potatoes and what I got was a few tiny potatoes. There are many ways to grow potatoes and I will try another method thus year.
Just a note to Mainers: If you buy your seed potatoes and they have been grown in Maine -- Wood Prairie is my favorite -- your yield can be at least double Dr Nass's. I normally get 20 pounds of potatoes from 1 pound of seed potatoes, but have gotten 25 pounds from some varieties. The reason is that the seed potatoes were grown in your local day-length conditions.