Football and Fertilizer

by Survival Joe | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 In Food

Today people talk about American Idol, Hollywood films and spectator sports. Our great grandparents talked about soil, seeds and water.

Children used to spend half the year working in fields growing and harvesting vegetables. Today a third of school children – according to polling organization Mori – think bread is made from potatoes. Half of the surveyed children couldn’t even tell you ham comes from a pig (most thought ham came from a chicken).

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution series surveyed a class of six-year-old students. Not one of them could identify a fresh tomato – yet they all knew what ketchup was. The kids thought a cauliflower was called broccoli, beets were onions and an eggplant was a pear (you can sort of see the resemblance).

How on earth is the average person to be expected to grow their own food during a food shortage if they don’t even know a French fry comes from a potato?

There would be absolute chaos.

If you can, move out of the big city. Stick to rural areas where food is grown, the population density is low and land is cheap. But whether you live in the big city or hick-ville, get some seeds stored away.

Then start doing some gardening today. Even a little. Hook up with a local gardening group and associate with people who are in touch with nature and know where food comes from and how to grow it.

A day might come when all our urban infrastructure will be an obstacle to our survival and farming God’s green earth will be the only way to survive.

Check out Food Crisis 2 (click here) for instructions on how to prepare your family for “survival gardening” if the need arises.

Don’t be scared, be prepared.
–Survival Joe

P.S. To see how life might be like for people who do no prepare check out: Kick in the Rear Urban Preparedness Video

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