This trend will worsen, of course, leading to a lot of volatility as uncertainty in both the national food supply lines and local availability of food come into play. If you haven't considered storing wheat berries, it might be time to reconsider the risks of not storing food stuffs. Wheat berries last 20-30 years if stored properly. Organic spring wheat is available from a local farm through Greenstar.
See: PreparedTompkins.org for how to pack a super pail <http://www.preparedtompkins.org/?oc=DbDisplay&dn=Postings&or=vertical&oi=55>. In addition to being the per capita leader statewide in PV systems, it would provide us with more food security if we increase the number of home gardens, root cellars, and households with a year food storage - as well as the number of people actively engaged in home or small-scale food processing. -- Katie Q-J Joel and Sarah Gagnon wrote: > By then we will be growing it locally again and making the bread locally as > well. > > Joel > > At 12:05 PM 3/20/08 -0400, you wrote: > >> Dear Friends--In case you haven't see this on CNN, the network is reporting >> on the severe price increases in wheat. The price of wheat has gone up >> 2-1/2 times over the past year. A commercial-sized bag of flour went from >> $37 to $40 over the past couple of months. Everything made from wheat is >> going up and up as well. The reasons are 1) more farmers are raising corn >> for biofuels and less wheat, so the supply is low and 2) because of the >> falling value of the dollar more foreign countries are buying more wheat >> > >from the U.S. 60% of our wheat output goes over seas. We now have less > >> wheat available since WW II, so we are all paying the price! Life in the >> U.S. is becoming like life in a 3rd World country! >> >> Also from CNN: It takes a big rig trucker $1,000 to fill up his/her >> tanks. They are going bankrupt right and left. Truckers are going to >> stage a national work stoppage to protest the high price of diesel fuel, >> which is near $4/gal. in some parts of the county. >> >> How is bread going to get to the bread lines during the coming >> Depression? Tom >> >> Tom Shelley >> 118 E. Court St. >> Ithaca, NY 14850 >> 607 342-0864 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.myspace.com/99319958 >> P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary >> >> "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present >> without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own >> needs." >> >> The World Commission on Environment and Development, >> Gro Harlem Brundtland >> Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 >> >> MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as >> growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean >> "for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). >> >> "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux >> proverb >> _______________________________________________ >> RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >> [email protected] >> http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >> free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org >> > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org > > > -- _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
