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madcowmonkey (< 20)

Start your gardens gentlemen.

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March 06, 2008 – Comments (8) | RELATED TICKERS: TMA , DFR , MFA

Here is a article from MSN.

Could we really run out of food? 

Has Biofuel really put us in this bind or is it the fact the world population is out of control? It is still unbelievable to me how much stuff is gathering attention in the media headlines. I am still going to dedicate 1 acre of my property to a nice garden for the summer. My wife said she would like it and our last little attempt at a garden was a success. Tomatoes, squash, corn, and look at them beans!!! I wish I could put the song with Jonny Cash singing about his beans. Well I am lucky if the hyperlink even works right!

Less Oil

Less Food

Declining Market

Declining housing values

Highest ever foreclosure rate

Crappy presidents

You guys/gals can keep adding to this list if you like. I am sure the tags that I put up have a little something to do with the famine that might come.

8 Comments – Post Your Own

#1) On March 06, 2008 at 11:06 AM, FourthAxis (24.20) wrote:

Keep buying gold, duct tape and perpare for the water wars

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#2) On March 06, 2008 at 11:25 AM, eldemonio (99.14) wrote:

Guns, don't forget to buy a lot of guns and ammo too.

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#3) On March 06, 2008 at 1:18 PM, dude59 (89.69) wrote:

We will not run out of food in the US or the EU. It WILL get more expensive. Eventually the politicians will figure out that we have to balance fuels and food. Unfortunately this will take most of them another year, which will see MUCH larger fodd and fuel prices.

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#4) On March 06, 2008 at 3:11 PM, joeykid13 wrote:

water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.  Iodine tablets too, definetely a no-go item.

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#5) On March 06, 2008 at 3:37 PM, abitare (99.70) wrote:

A buy list is here: 

http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/ViewPost.aspx?bpid=36183&t=01007146184382914537

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#6) On March 06, 2008 at 4:19 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

Hillarious, the comments are great. Thanks for the list abit. I am running out of duct tape fourth, I definitely need to go stock up on that. I am an avid bow hunter, but I will look at buying more guns and ammo too elde. I live 2 minutes from Lake Michigan and have one of those portable water purifiers for camping, but thanks 13, far away from Chicago and Detroit. Now I need to really learn how to make green beans grow!! Any vegetable that you guys could recommend that would can easily and taste good later?

Thornburg's a Huge Bargain After Monday's Crash

Anybody need a good laugh. Ouch. Sorry, but I would wait a little longer before getting back in. Nice try though. Just in case you need to know. Today is Thursday, maybe he was talking about next monday????? 

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#7) On March 06, 2008 at 8:39 PM, StockSpreadsheet (77.43) wrote:

You can pickle a lot of vegetables and they will taste good later.  Cucumbers of course, if you like dill pickles.  (You could make sweet pickles too, but it is at least 10 times harder than making dill pickles.)  I have heard that pickled beets and pickled okra are good, though I don't think I have ever had any.  Remember that you can also freeze stuff for later, if you have a big freezer.  Corn, peas and green beans freeze pretty well.

I have read that you should plant green beans and peas next to corn.  The green beans and peas can use the corn stalks as poles, and the interweeving of the two will tend to help keep pests away.  (They mistakenly bit the other plant while trying to feed on the one they want, and that leaves a bad taste in their mouth so they leave.  (A lot of pests are plant specific, so most pests that like corn hate peas and beans and vice versa.))  

Not botanically a vegetable, (dispite what the federal government says), but tomatoes can very well, as does sauces made from tomatoes.  Tomatoes have the added benefit of retaining most of their nutrients after they are cooked and stored, (especially vitamin C, which is usually destroyed by heat), which is not true for most other plants. 

When I was growing up, my father often devoted a portion of our yard to a garden.  We often had fresh food from the garden during the growing season.  Fresh peas off the vine were very good, but I hate peas once they are cooked.  Fresh corn and strawberries are also really cool. 

When we lived in Oregon, deer would often come into our back yard and eat the remnants of our garden.  We would let them, often standing and watching them do it, since the plants were past their production season when this was happening, mostly, and it was cool to watch the deer. 

By the way, you might want to talk to the Department of Agriculture about getting some seeds from them.  They have a program, (that I think is still going on), that is trying to preserve heirloom varieties of different plants.  From what I heard, they will give you the seeds for free, with the understanding that you need to return at least an equal quantity back to them at the end of the season.  The program is trying to save all the different varieties of different crops, (such as tomatoes and beans), so that the current industrial farming standardization doesn't wipe out all the non-commercial varieties, (and leave us open to massive crop failures due to pests or deseases, such as happened in The Great Irish Potato Famine/Blight many years ago).  You might get some interesting ideas from them.  

Good luck with your crops.   Hope you get some real good produce. 

Craig 

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#8) On March 07, 2008 at 3:10 PM, madcowmonkey (< 20) wrote:

Thanks SpreadSheet. I have never heard about doing the intertwining with corn, green beans, and peas. By the way I am printing off some of the recipes from the food network. Thanks for the replies and insight. I will have one issue with the garden, keeping the deer out. We have a ton of the 4 legged creatures running around and they eat up my apples. I have 6 newer trees growing and the deer get the best of them.

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