Is it too early for "start growing food on every square inch of land available."? [View all]

[Demovictory9]

Note: I didn't write the submission below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/longbeach/comments/1igr4n7/dear_beachies_start_growing_food_on_every_square/

start growing food on every square inch of land available.
Food
My dear neighbors. Don't Panic.

We need to build community resilience. It is time to start thinking like Cubans before we have to start thinking like North Koreans.

I am a student of history and my calculus shows that when VA Benefit payments, SSDI/SSI payments, Federal Grants and Loans, Native Tribe Payments and other funding fails to show up then we could have rioting in the streets. Which is what they want in order to enact Martial Law.

Please don't wait. Do what you can to increase food resilience now.

Grow a garden. (Potatoes, Corn, Sunflowers, Quinoa or Amaranth, & Beets all grow great here. Quinoa and Amaranth gives greens as well as protein and grows like a weed. Beets give you greens *and* starches.)

Plant pest resistant fruit trees. Apples, olives, avocado grow well here. Skip citrus if it's not already in your yard; there is a citrus disease going around.

Get your households' 4 legal chickens if you can. Start composting. Composting is Nature's Recycling and provides lots of grubs for your chickens to eat. Learn to reuse water as much as possible. Look into rabbit husbandry.

See if you can stock up on necessary medications. If you rely on medications that you can discontinue then consider whether you should. Don't quit medications without talking to your doctor.

The key is to build a strong community.

Meet your neighbors.

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agree with sentiments above but also know the ground you are planting in... because soil in long beach very likely has toxins in it. therefore, consider creating elevated garden boxes with new soil as much of the top layers of soil in long beach have been exposed to contaminants such as lead, oil, gasoline and heavy metals for decades.

i know because we just had our property tested and it showed high amounts of what i mention above. we're in alamitos beach. we took samples going down to six inches in four different areas of our property.

we've already constructed elevated garden boxes from salvaged wood that was repurposed from the old fence on our property, and then brought in new soil, and used our own compost to feed that soil.

use your best judgment.

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	Too early to be thinking of usa falling into catastrophy
	1 (4%)
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	22 (96%)
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