Garden Victory

11
Mar/090

peak-oil, humanity is doomed because of famine or charge could ass "victory gardens" to save us?

Short answer .... No victory unthinkable. Modern agriculture in industrialized countries, is now completely dependent on oil. Oil run machines, as tractors and harvesters, oil seeds to grow, oil to produce all the chemicals and fertilizers spread on cultures. This means that complete (or almost) the elimination of modern agriculture. People in the United States are now almost all at least three generations farmers. In short, they have no idea what to do. Very few people have seeds to plant a garden by hand, or tools. Not to mention the beds loan. It is also the fact that most people completely ignore .... needs of livestock. Without livestock, you do not manure, which means no fertilizer for their crops. The soil continues to become poorer and poorer quality, unless the manure to put on. Finally, he would stop growing in all cultures. Your talking about peak oil .... would not be able to run the local store and buy bags of fertilizer, or fertilizer. It would simply not exist the store. In addition, most people do not realize, but it would take to buy seeds for planting in the book, not the cute little packets of garden seeds. Then there is the conservation of all types of crop. How many people know that you can, freeze, dehydrate, salted or preserved harvest? How many people have a well equipped kitchen to make cheese, butter, yogurt, grind grain into flour for baking, and cut / fill a animal? Peak oil, when it finally hits hard, that is, people are dying of hunger and disease have not seen in 100 years. With the mass death of humanity, be other problems that most people do not know. The rats were operated on numbers, not the human checkpoint. The festival dead rats in the cities. Then, as they have more food supply in cities is suberbia overwhelming. Finally, the spread in the country. Finally, your number is blocked. Meanwhile, the rats were swamped areas humanity to become successful too. So even if a small country was doing well, and repel the hordes of city people, and management to grow their gardens, the rats are eating their first year of cultivation on the ground. It invades homes and eating any morsel of food that can be stored search. His numbers could very likely if they eat large small domestic animals and chickens. Is likely to bring disease. The rats probably only be a problem for the first year or two. The next plague to strike humans will probably survivng grasshoppers. With limited human and not the spread of poison, their numbers will explode. They become a threat serrious three years. They will come and eat all gardens on the ground (and below!) What people are trying to develop. Birds that normally feast on the vast fields that farmers grow to be a problem. They are the biggest problem the first year or two .... then their numbers will crash. They are very susceptible to herd ravonous large with thousands Garden Shree. I would say that people they know and the garden has not won yet, still has no seeds, tools, emissions, etc. and a supply of food stored properly (about 5 years worth) would be pretty difficult serrious when peak oil becomes a more widespread problem. ~ Garnet Permaculture Homesteading / Farming over 20 years