Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[brewster]

Nucleus colony. It's just a small box with about five shallow frames in it, with a queen and bees that have accepted her.

I'm smarter now than I was a few minutes ago, thanks.

Nope, just slightly less ignorant. Common mistake.

[TheReal_ND]

Nucleus colony. It's just a small box with about five shallow frames in it, with a queen and bees that have accepted her.

I'm smarter now than I was a few minutes ago, thanks.

Nope, just slightly less ignorant. Common mistake.

Vote in the poll I created in the current events board. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you believe could pose the biggest civilizational crises for us in the near or long term future.

[Speaker to Animals]

I thought if a cool mobile game. Imagine a game were you set up a Langstroth hive and manage the colony. Allocate so many eggs and try to optimize the workers, etc.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I thought if a cool mobile game. Imagine a game were you set up a Langstroth hive and manage the colony. Allocate so many eggs and try to optimize the workers, etc.

SimAnt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

[Hastur]

Was it someone here that turned me onto this bee wrangler channel? I don't remember.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Now is the time - both to plant food, and to prepare to purchase your homestead.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06- ... er-monster

[Speaker to Animals]

Any opinions on the feasibility of converting pasture or woodlands to farmland?

[Speaker to Animals]

Almost might be a good time to consider a business that does nothing but convert land to farmland, whether it be abandoned suburbs, forests, or pastures. Local food production has to come back before peak oil, and you might be able to offset costs to the customers by gaining rights to timber and recycling.

in the midwest you could go the opposite direction and focus on rewilding the vast corporate land holdings that are not sustainable after peak oil.

[C-Mag]

Almost might be a good time to consider a business that does nothing but convert land to farmland, whether it be abandoned suburbs, forests, or pastures. Local food production has to come back before peak oil, and you might be able to offset costs to the customers by gaining rights to timber and recycling.

in the midwest you could go the opposite direction and focus on rewilding the vast corporate land holdings that are not sustainable after peak oil.

[Speaker to Animals]

I am not expert here, so this is just me thinking out loud.. but..

For most small cities and towns, the colonization of these regions by Yankees resulted in the original surrounding farmland being converted into degenerate suburb-like neighborhoods across the Southland. I'd imagine something similar happened out west. To transition back to local food production, we'd have to use unrestricted wooded lands and former pastures (horse farms for the wealthy being another form of useless colonization).


The ability to get the existing horse farms out of here, or force the shitty liberal suburb colonies to be depopulated, is drastically limited. So you are basically stuck with unrestricted land that is mostly wooded. So, to cover the costs of rolling in with tractors to remove the trees, you need to be able to at least recover the costs of moving the tractors and fueling them (as well as labor to remove the trees) from lumber sales. The lumber market is tricky, so you'd have to time it well. You might be able to subcontract this work with foresting contractors.

Some of the lumber you cannot sell maybe you could burn before a rainstorm to create biochar that you can spread about to further remediate the soil.

You then need to level the land at least in rectangles corresponding to slightly larger than a medium or large field in intensive farming practices. That's going to be the biggest amount of work.

After that, you have to take your soil analysis and figure out what kinds of cover crops need to be planted to get the soil working.

Then there are lots of little questions, like till or no till?