Seeds
I was sent an interesting post by a friend today, regarding seeds. Before I tell you where to find it, let me say that we have been starting to grow a little of our own food. We trying to do it completely organically. I figure there is no use in learning how to grow stuff with fertilizer and chemicals and pesticides that will disappear if things go truly south.
It is, I admit, a little hard at first to go entirely organic. For one thing, you find out that there are garden insects that you WANT in your garden, ones that will greatly help to control the pest insects. Astoundingly, these helpers will come by themselves to your garden, if you will let them. It’s like there is this incredible balance that wants to establish itself, if we can muster the wisdom to just get out of the way enough.
I count my gardening efforts to date a complete success, even though the output of edibles has been minimal. Because we now have the beginning of a complete ecology that can very nearly take care of itself, with just a little help from an organic fungus that kills the leafminers that are a plague in our area.
Truth is, I hate gardening vegetables. I don’t mind growing trees and aloe vera and other things that pretty much hold their own against pests. But vegetables… dang! What a pain in the nether regions it is to be constantly fighting insects for control of the food I consider to be mine. And what an intellectual discussion that opens up… but we’re not going there.
The reason we do the stupid vegetable farming it is that we think we might have to, on a larger scale, in the not too distant future. Perhaps in the near future. See the previous post on hunger and starvation and famine.
We are learning how to keep seeds from part of our crop, too. It looks like we may also need that skill a little sooner than we had planned on. Take a look here at the post I told you about at the beginning. A short synopsis is that companies supplying seeds are already getting overwhelmed as the economy starts to tank. Smart gardeners are ordering for next year now, instead of in a few months from now.
It is just one more indicator, an alarmingly important one, that the clouds which have been gathering on the horizon have moved closer, and we are feeling the first tiny sprinkling droplets of the gargantuan storm to come.
