Fran Farmer wrote:
songbird wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
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How do you feed the world for the next 50 years without heavy
reliance on farming and consuming high carb crops?

the same way it was done before much of the
current nonsense came along. diversity, smaller
farms and people working together as an actual
community.

i've seen good results here on not much room
at all, no reason it can't work on a larger
scale other than needing more people who would
want to do it. enough people get hungry enough
and perhaps they will want to do it too.

Cuba is a good example of those sorts of techniques. I can't imagine
too many people in the first world being willing volunteers for the sort
of hard work that involves.

yes, they actually improved their health after the
initial decline in calories, (basically they lost a
meal a day for a few years until the veggie patches
came into production).

the thing is, that if you get everyone to put in
a few hours here or there it isn't that bad. right
now we are two people who sort of garden a few
thousand square feet, it's not intensively done or
even with a lot of fiddling, and while we may not
have perfect results it still provides a great deal
of food.

like right now, i'm harvesting strawberries so that's
more than we'll ever be able to eat fresh. making
freezer jam today and after one more large round of
picking/processing i'll probably call people and let
them know they can come pick when they want, first
come first served. critters are eating plenty of
them too.


songbird