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People keep asking who's going to man the grills, pick the crops, clean the houses when all the illegals get deported. We have lots of useless government paid parasites that could fill those jobs nicely. They're educated, speak English and currently produce nothing but obstacles.

For the past 5 years or so, I've been getting my hands dirty and cultivating some skills on a small community garden plot across the inlet here in Halifax.

I figure if I had 10 of them-- and not too much harder to manage, since I have to be there for the one anyway-- and could prevent the deer-plunder, I could probably feed myself more or less for a full year, minus the meat part of the diet (unless I ate the slugs). (Deer are probably legally off-limits, for now.)

Point is in part that gardening…

The three sisters. Once acre of corn, beans, and squash can feed an entire family if well done on good land.

Yes, that's what is understood. I actually have a squash soup in the fridge as we speak, made with some stuff from the garden from last summer/fall, including the squash (butternut-- easy to peel compared with acorn), garlic, a few very finely-chopped beet leaves and a splash of home-brewed apple cider.

I grew corn one summer before, indidentally, but planted it a little too late for our shorter growing season. In any case I figured that it didn't really give us much in the way of how much of th…

Grow potatoes. They do well in cooler climates, produce food that a human can survive on alone, and the potatoes, if stored in a cool area, can last for months. I grow a good supply of potatoes every year and store them under ground. The smaller ones I then re-use as seed potato and plant them in the fall. Come spring when the soil warms the seed potato sprouts and produces more.