Preparedness for when

paidinchickens

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I don't eat FB pies.

Cheese and onion quiche for Bob then

Perplexed_Pineapple

Welcome to the thread BBQ141, always nice to have new posters.

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Collecting rainwater in many States in the USA is now illegal.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html

http://offgridsurvival.com/rainwaterillegal/

Do you think that this cold happen here?

I hope not, I've just added a new 200L water butt to the gardening preps

I'm looking foward to getting seedlings in the ground now - tomato seedlings coming on nicely on the windowsill and just hope I can get them out before they get too huge. I don't understand what was happening with those American garden raids linked to - it sounds very weird but I think some urban areas are very prescriptive about what you can do. Admittedly growing your own on a budget can look quite messy with recycled plastic pots and bottles to the fore. We're lucky to have a relatively protected open space although the surrounding trees, buildings and shrubbery do mean that the light isn't as good as I would like for growing our own.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Just came across this which may be of interest:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/10671764/Commodities-Russias-stand-off-with-breadbasket-Ukraine-threatens-UK-food-prices.html
Combined with drought in western USA and Brazil, could be a bad year for cereal production.
Interesting that reports of Russian incursions into the Crimea are talking in terms of cold war politics. With a large Russian-speaking population in Crimea it reminds me more of the Sudetanland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland
:eek:

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If anyone wants to look at creating a Hay Box Cooker I put in a search on google for MODERN HAY BOX COOKER and found many different 'How to's' using lots of different materials to construct one, also known as a fireless cooker or retained heat cooker. Looks very easy to do, Lyn xxx.

They work in a similar way to the Wonderbag.

Frugalsod

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Not only that, but they are doing this as well

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/why-does-the-state-of-utah-want-to-register-survival-gardens_072012

http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2012/07/08/utah-wants-to-register-survival-gardens/

More Worrying
http://offgridsurvival.com/survivalgardenseizedanddestroyed/

I suspect that all of these measures are being pushed by big business which fears people no longer needing them. Also the FBI regards anyone with more than 7 days food in their home as a potential terrorist threat. Also in world where people are dependent on big business for food they are more controllable.

Frugalsod

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

Just came across this which may be of interest:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/10671764/Commodities-Russias-stand-off-with-breadbasket-Ukraine-threatens-UK-food-prices.html
Combined with drought in western USA and Brazil, could be a bad year for cereal production.
Interesting that reports of Russian incursions into the Crimea are talking in terms of cold war politics. With a large Russian-speaking population in Crimea it reminds me more of the Sudetanland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland
:eek:

It is identical to the annexation of Hawaii. http://www.ushistory.org/us/44b.asp

Just look at the flag of Hawaii to see who they stole it from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hawaii

Perplexed_Pineapple

That's very interesting Fugalsod I never knew that

siegemode

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I've just been watching the Hugh Fearnely Whatsit Fish programme and whilst being extremely pleased that the attitudes of TPTB have changed substantially regarding discards particularly of cod and that seems to have lead to a much more sensible policy of landing and using all the catch I'm horrified at the sheer lunacy of the Thai method of fishing out everything from the sea to make fishmeal to feed farmed king prawns to sell in our supermarkets here, what lunacy is this? do we not have prawns in our own sovereign waters? admittedly not stonking big ones but prawns nonetheless!!! The whole system is WRONG, why do we keep buying products that harm the environment in their production, I'll never ever buy King Prawns again, no matter how beguilingly they're marketed by whichever supermarket I happen to use. I'll go to our local fish stall and buy North Sea Prawns or I'll not have prawns at all. I don't at all wish to deprive a Thai fisherman of a living but what is happening out there is unethical and unsustainable, they will end up with empty seas and whole species will be fished out and gone!!!

Totally wrong and shocking I agree, but did they show how they remove an eye stork to stimulate the prawns ovaries to maturation and spawning:eek::eek::eek::eek: I was so shocked a few years back on learning this that unless I can afford wild atlantic prawns(which is rare) I go without no matter how cheap they are. Many farmers it seems have turned their land over to farming prawns for the western supermarkets and consumers. This has left them having to buy in their own food and rendered their own land so polluted by sea water that even if they wanted to return to growing the usual crops they couldn't.:mad::mad::mad:

Butterfly_Brain

PP I think that it is time to stock up on bread flour, cereals, yeast and ordinary flour before it hits our pockets

BBQ141

Frugalsod wrote: »

I suspect that all of these measures are being pushed by big business which fears people no longer needing them. Also the FBI regards anyone with more than 7 days food in their home as a potential terrorist threat. Also in world where people are dependent on big business for food they are more controllable.

I don't think that is 100% correct, in many cases the federal government advises people to have adequate stocks of food and emergency supplies. In addition how on earth would the FBI know how much food you have in your home.