A wise man once said that the first step in cleaning up the world was to sweep one's own sidewalk. The premise being that if your neighbors, seeing your effort, sweep their sidewalk and other neighbors join in, before long the world will be swept clean.
While we all hope the ideal Republic our Founders planned can be restored, knowledge of the minds, temperments, greed and lust for power of our current leaders cannot be underestimated.
Even if all the noxious constitutional amendments were overturned, the bureacracy dismembered, many horrible Supreme Court rulings thrown out, the Federal Reserve sent back to Europe, the ACLU disbanded and all the Socialists rooted out of our land, much damage has been done. Some may be permanent - at least it won't be repaired for years.
That damage includes the loss of our, steel, textile and automobile industries, our heavy industrial base and the loss of our small, family farmers.
As you read down further in this blog, you will note that during WWI and WWII, Victory Gardens eventually accounted for 40% of all the fruits and vegetables consumed in America.
I hate to sound like a doomsday prophet, but if a nation can't feed and clothe itself, it is destined for failure.
No-one expects anyone to grow wheat or rice on a 12' x 12' backyard garden, or a container garden on a patio, but one can reasonably expect to grow enough tomatoes, pickles, peas, corn, squash, watermelon, beets or whatever one's family's preferences are, to last the family a year or at least six months.
Learn how to can, dehydrate and in other ways, preserve the harvest. I never cease to be amazed at God's bounty. I have personally picked more than a bushel of beautiful tomatoes off one plant, grown from one little seed. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to go hungry - even if there are shortages at the supermarket.
If in the end we Patriots manage to save our republic, we will want to be well fed, now, won't we? We may yet regain our freedom, liberty, sense of independence and self worth that seem to be so sorely lacking in todays hustle-bustle world and in my opinion, that includes the humble Victory Garden.
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