While the petroleum based economy and food system falters and becomes increasingly unreliable i`ll be leaning into more ancient and resilient forms of food production.

Rather than depending on governments and corporations to feed you (that turn oil into food on your plate via big AG) learn to turn wood into food and simultaneously build soil for your veggie garden or food forest.

Are you concerned about the flimsy and fickle petroleum dependent industrial food system in light of certain imperialistic war racket events? If you are getting your food at the big box grocery stores, you should be. If its not the Iran situation, it will be something else, and these systems that feed so many will no longer able to be relied upon.

Instead of hoping some government will solve this problem for us, why not learn some basic skills that will allow you to take wind fallen logs (or log sections you can get for free from arborists or power company tree trimmers) inoculate them with gourmet and medicinal mushroom spawn, and then you will have access to nutrient dense food for years.

These logs can be stored outside or inside and you can even trigger the logs to produce mushrooms when you need them by soaking in cold water to simulate spring/fall fruiting cycles. There are not many forms of food preservation that can beat that in adaptability and versatility to a range of situations. Even if you do not have land or a community garden, you can inoculate the logs and then stash them in a guerilla mushroom farming spot in the woods (I do that myself so we have multiple locations to harvest from along with our logs at home and I place them near seasonal harvest locations for things like ramps, and I plant other perennial forest veggies and herbs there so I can harvest two things at once while enriching local ecology).

The second pic below is a screenshot from my book (Recipes For Reciprocity) on residential scale mushroom cultivation.

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I offer some basics on the topic and how mushroom cultivation can be synergistically combined with regenerative outdoor gardening/food forest design but if you want in depth info on mycology and advanced cultivation techniques ranging from producing your own spawn to growing mushrooms inside in mason jars on coffee grounds, I suggest Peter McCoy’s and Tradd Cotter’s books.