Picking up a second heifer calf tomorrow. Adding to the renewable food cache' the final cog in the wheel of self sustainability in the food department. It's interesting, everyone has a sense that things are going to become outrageous in price. rumors of inflation, evidence of costs rising and stories of people drifting from wealthy to middle class, middle income groups becoming poorer, and the poor becoming homeless.
When the wind blew the scent of economic trouble my way, I took in a good long breath. When I exhaled, I knew this was the time to get motivated and adapt to the upcoming economic, social, and geopolitical crisis facing our way of life across the country and the entire world. As awareness grew, so did the depth and width of the realities that have somehow remained hidden via a network of corruption with fingers in education, media, entertainment and politics. I believe that we are only feeling the raindrops on our tongues that precede a massive storm brewing just out of view.
The concerns that come to mind were food, property, income, security, finances and health. The plan is to wean myself out of the system that is collapsing into a system that is sustainable. Almost in a step after step exchange, I've balanced the inflating costs with that of self reliance. As food prices increase, I grow more. Food costs in my household have gone from $900 month to $250. The difference is split in the departments I cannot control like electricity costs and gas. With everything considered, I actually have more now on less income. Self reliance is combating inflation and winning.
To the point. There is not much we can do to throw our gradual devolution off the tracks it's on. We can only accept it, and prepare for a different lifestyle which will arrive wether we like it or not. So canning, raising the big three (chicken, pork, beef and growing large gardens), handloading, wood heating and cooking, stocking medical supplies, and so on is going to be the new social norm.
Should this progression charter on, the day there is total economic collapse and social breakdown, I hope to carry on unscathed. As interviews with survivors of various catastrophic experiences will show, it's the ones who are of sound mind and are adaptable that live to tell the tale.
