Another pet project of mine to get America back on her feet would be a fund earmarked for encouraging/educating people to turn a portion of their suburban flag lot into a victory garden. I was visiting a city over the holidays and noticed with some awe how nary a person had a single edible plant growing in either their front or back yards! Nary a one.. There were tons of ornamentals, many of them poisonous. But any olive trees? No. Any banana trees? No. Avocados? No (I think you can guess where I went..) OK...to be fair I did see one yard with a lonely orange tree...hardly enough to feed the neighborhood..
People need to know what to grow, how to mulch their yard trimmings and how to keep the proper amount of moisture for a given crop in the soil. Basic stuff for an old timer like me..but I got the feeling like if any of them had to put a potato in the ground they'd starve in a week..
Now I sat down and did the math of that many people suddenly experiencing a shortage of either money or imported foods and wow! Golly...
There'd be mayhem in less than three days.
People need to understand where the very very basics of what they consume on a daily basis actually come from and, God forbid, they may need to rely on food they grow themselves to support themselves, a neighbor in need or even their local school or church outreach nearby.
So, that's another of the projects to bolster the nation: teach people how to garden. It's fun and they'd lose weight too, turning the soil and whatnot.
Of course, I could be biased..
