Clo, It sounds as though you might be better able to feed yourself than I thought! I suggest you start another garden so you have plants well established when you get hungry!
This is a very radical departure for me, as I said. Under different circumstances I probably would have started another business, but what is the point when the country is rapidly degrading into totalitarian dictatorship and kleptocracy. So, growing has many upsides right now: distraction, security, and maybe eventually another business venture.
Only a year ago I thought I had only a brown thumb...my wife gave me a lot of help, guidance, and inspiration and now I believe differently. My longer term goal is to, hopefully, figure out how to terraform larger parcels using permaculture techniques and maybe some innovative thinking of my own. Only time will tell. At this point I am still, very much, in learning mode.
Thank goodness for trees, I've got to say. I may not always get them right but quite a few are pretty well established already and I can imagine a few years hence when I don't necessarily have to garden at all ... just walk around picking things in season. Shade, food, economics, and climate modification all in one.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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