- Plenty of fast-growing turnip seed to close the hunger gap
a small portion of the future ample supply of toilet paper
- Meat in the freezer and meat on the hoof
- A dozen laying hens with a convenient built-in system to make replacements
- Hogs out in the woods
- Bee hives
- Four cases of mead under the stairs
- Five half-gallons of honey
- A full larder
- A few hunting rifles and shotguns with a reasonable amount of ammunition
- A gate that locks
- A half-bottle of Irish whisky left by a guest last night at our St. Patrick’s Day dinner (Jim, check with me to see if it is still available after The Great Reemergence)
- A five gallon still and plenty of fermentation vessels
- One ham curing under the stairs
- Three farm dogs (two of whom are useless)
- Already voted in the primary/no need to venture into the polling booth until November
- Scythe
- A mother-in-law cottage where future serfs can bunk
- Medicinal herb garden
- Apparently a too small supply of toilet paper
- Hmm, no extra gasoline or diesel, which could be problematic (see scythe and serfs)
- An exceptionally well-stocked library, perfect for those long lonely nights tending signal fires (or toilet paper for the illiterates who take over our farm)
- Two chocolate bars and a bottle of Prosecco
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Reading this weekend: The Masque of the Red Death and King Pest (E. Poe). The Confessions of a Bookseller (S. Bythell)
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Sounds like you’ve got it covered … and I don’t think you need to worry about your nights being lonely.
Good to know.
That’s not going to be NEARLY enough chocolate.
But otherwise, sounds like you’re good to go! ;^)
Yep, serious oversight on our end.
Had to look up what ‘mead’ was….I am intrigued. Kind of like a cousin to southern sweet wine?
Get thee to a mead-hall, John! Actually, meaderies are enjoying a bit of a resurgence. So, it shouldn’t be hard to find a few to sample. Some can be intensely sweet, some can be very dry (and highly alcoholic). I often brew with honey and whatever fruit is in season. So I have some strawberry meads, muscadine meads, pear meads, etc. etc.
Cheers and thanks for commenting,
Brian
• muscles which don’t come from working out, but working
• maybe a book by Nassim Taleb
I thought I might have two or three years more to be able to call the property a working orchard before all the fun stuff John Michael Greer’s been talking about for so long starts happening. Seems like I won’t.
Well, this won’t be pretty. But, it might not be the end. Keep on grafting and planting!
I’ll be sending you some pictures 🙂
A possible positive view. Maybe this will provoke the massive reset needed to bring some sanity back to the world. Is it possible that being a somewhat self-sufficient small farmer might be a good thing again?
I like that, Don.
Funniest line for me: * Apparently a too small supply of toilet paper
One imagines the apocalypse will find the planet full of folks with clean hineys…
Well, there is that.
You were mentioning bugs on your potatoes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=nH4gf448a1M from about 4:30 onwards. I’m sure you can get your hands on a bit of silica, too 🙂
Thanks.