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Did you know that Warren Buffett’s son is a an active supporter of no-till conservation agriculture?

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In addition to suggestions above, there are some other land mineral restoration movements such as permaculture, forest gardening, biodynamic farming (documentary) and so on. If all these sound hippie-dippie-do, then check out Dan Barber and his TED talks for “modern choices”.

Did you know that Warren Buffett’s son is a active supporter of no-till conservation agriculture?

Best,
Surio.
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My hat is off to you on your post. If only more Americans would realize the land of plenty we have enjoyed.

One of the ways to replace this is to put livestock on the land – rather than what most crops force us to do. This has been proven as a reasonable tactic:

http://www.fastcompany.com/1655491/plan-to-turn-deserts-green-wins-2010-buckminster-fuller-challenge

To see what a grain-based economy eventually does to the land, see previous agricultural strong-holds, which farmed their land to deserts (Rome, Mesopotamia, Egypt, etc….) – our prairies are essentially in the same state or will be shortly.

Get a freezer, buy a cow from a local farmer who feeds it only grass, cut the oatmeal which is not helping the land at all.

The main problem is overpopulation – nobody talks about that much though as it is a sticky subject to approach – how do you get a population to shrink? Tax Children?

I suggest doing what we do. Instead of making meat the main part of the meal, turn it into a condiment or perhaps leave it out altogether. Similarly, drop the milk. Finally, learn what grows locally and when it is in season and cook with those ingredients.

YaY!! Jacob for BDFL

Best,
Surio.
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If you’re going to buy meat, buy it in bulk (ie: 1/2 to 1 cow at a time) from a local farmer and share it with others if you need. This really lowers the cost and keeps it local at the same time.

I am also personally moving to a diet more reliant on beans and rice because I enjoy them, they’re healthier, cheaper and just as filling as meat-based meals.

I’m not on an extreme early retirement path, but I am on a happier path, lower impact and earlier retirement path.

Thanks for the thoughts!

Such a poor country yet they live almost as long as Americans.

Cubans have problems of not enough food (or variety) and US has problems with too much food.

I am very curious to see how this increase in food prices will play out.

Will people eat lower on the food chain, opting for healthier beans instead of their T-bone steak? Will they plant gardens to grown healthy nutritious food or will they munch on cheap junk food with high calories?

Time will tell.

Product Quantity Price (CUP)
Rice 6 lb 0.70 / lb
Beans 20 oz. 0.32 / lb
White (refined) sugar 3 lb 0.15 / lb
Dark (unrefined) sugar 3 lb 0.10 / lb
Milk (only children under 7 years) 1 lt / day 0.25 / each
Eggs (*) 12 0.15 each
Potatoes/bananas 15 lb 0.40 / lb
(*) Only from September through December.

This doesn’t mention how long you have to stand in line to get these items once they do become available or how inflated the black market prices are.

We take for granted all we have in this country. The ability to get in my car and drive to the grocery and pick out anything I want to eat for dinner and have it cost less than I make in an hour…

Or even more shocking, at a little over $20 per hour, even after taxes I make enough money to buy enough rice for roughly 150-175 people per day.

We take for granted that food will always be there and it will be as cheap as it is now.

I stockpile food. I have never in my life worried about where my next meal will come from, and I don’t want to. I would hate to be starving and think back to this time of plenty and realize for the price of a cup of coffee, or soda out of the vending machine at work, I could have prevented going hungry for one day.