Prepare and Endure

Are you old enough to remember these? Cold cellars...fruit cellars..root cellars...storage cellars? If you ever lived on a farm or in an old house, the home place probably had one of these. Or something similar. It is was a place to store vegetables and home canned foods and fruits for the leaner times and winter. Root vegetables could last over winter and feed the family until the next planting season. Very few homes/people have them now including me, but I would I would like to have one.

If you were listening to Glenn Beck today he was giving out subtle messages..or not so subtle hints, that Americans should be preparing or stocking up for hard times. We are not ready for another Great Depression. In the 30's we were still a agrian society...souls of the soil. Farmers had their gardens and meat producing stocks and flocks, even if they didn't have money or very little of it. They had the land and they had a plan.

We have become so urban and dependent on the supply chains and factory farms that most of will not know what or how to endure should the system fail. What will you do and how will you feed yourself or family? It is something to think about and plan for.

Things that may become hard to buy or get; Sugar, white flour, fresh vegetables and fruits. You can try to stock up now or hope for the best. Hope won't fill the belly, 'though, will it?

Even city dwellers can stock up. You can store canned goods under beds, in closets, on porches and even in cars/trunks. A creative mind will find creative ways to prepare for any contingencies, be it man made or weather related. Just do it. Bring home a couple extra cans of food each week or if your flush, buy in bulk...just do it according to your financial ability. Just don't charge it to a credit card, because a credit card will come back to bit your tin can.

Plant a garden-a big garden if you can. Get your seeds now as there may be a seed shortage later in the spring. If you don't know how to process and can food start reading and learning how and better yet, find a mentor to guide you along. If you never need the knowledge you are still ahead of the game. Just think of it this way, GAME ON.

I hope to have a small cold cellar, but if I can't manage to have one, I will use a back store room that has a concrete floor and cover the bright windows. It has worked fairly well for potatoes this past winter, but is much too bright and sunny in the fall and spring.

Prepare and endure. End