I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I come from a small farmers family in a third world country. My parents’ generation moved away from farming into teaching and other essential industries for stability. But looking at how things are, I asked my father if we should consider starting farming again. He said given the erratic climate patterns that have been forming lately, tons of farming families we know have endured massive losses because of crop failures.
Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better
You certainly can barter with it, even in economic crisis. If you have extra money and have the basic prepper/survival stuff covered as well as self-defense, gold is a great next option. The self-defense part is important, however, because of that.
Multiple countries have faced civil collapse; in those situations, gold really does become a way to get out somewhere, go somewhere or bribe someone really fast compared to a possibly failing currency. Gold holds value, currencies don’t in many situations.
Gold isn’t going to help you in a nuclear exchange or apocalypse situation, though. You also need quite a large garden in order to sustain more than one person. Quite a large one; growing the correct crops as well. Becomes a lot harder the farther north you are. Vitamins/nutrients and what not.
I was thinking about that comment and a neighbor who grows okra with very little water and gets a good yield, because I always thought ones requires plenty of water. Searching said without with water, the nutrient uptake is poor, so you can eat it, but I’m guessing nutrition is low.
I’ve grown Okra! The water thing is true if you grow Okra in it’s own area by itself. There’s a collective “water-burden” crops can have when you’re growing certain ones together. Okra can soak up plenty of water if you give it plenty of water; from other plants even! Certain plants that suck up water quicker/need more water will draw water from other slower plants which is why it’s good to separate your garden.
If I was in a survival situation I think I would just absolutely fill my garden with root veggies and hopefully be able to procure some more vitamin supplements because of where I live. Potatoes, tubers, jamaican yams in containers. Shit loads of walnut trees around here too. I don’t think there’s anything I can grow in the winter.
Yeah when we grew it we had a separate patch and made sure it had water, so I was astonished my neighbor grows it with so little. I was going to suggest okra for our comrade but had a hunch there was a catch, so when I read that, I didn’t say anything. Root veggies are nutrient dense, assuming soil and water conditions are good. And ofc organic fertilizer is preferable to manufactured fertilizer but we do what we can. Humans are surprisingly adaptable and resilient, but at the end of the day, we’re still humans and needs unmet for too long has real negative impacts.
True economy understanders know that the point of keeping the gold bars is to dunk on Elijah’s stupid old ass.
Also, they look cool in the bathtub in your room in Novac.
Buy a garden instead. You can’t eat gold.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I come from a small farmers family in a third world country. My parents’ generation moved away from farming into teaching and other essential industries for stability. But looking at how things are, I asked my father if we should consider starting farming again. He said given the erratic climate patterns that have been forming lately, tons of farming families we know have endured massive losses because of crop failures.
Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better
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You certainly can barter with it, even in economic crisis. If you have extra money and have the basic prepper/survival stuff covered as well as self-defense, gold is a great next option. The self-defense part is important, however, because of that.
Multiple countries have faced civil collapse; in those situations, gold really does become a way to get out somewhere, go somewhere or bribe someone really fast compared to a possibly failing currency. Gold holds value, currencies don’t in many situations.
Gold isn’t going to help you in a nuclear exchange or apocalypse situation, though. You also need quite a large garden in order to sustain more than one person. Quite a large one; growing the correct crops as well. Becomes a lot harder the farther north you are. Vitamins/nutrients and what not.
I was thinking about that comment and a neighbor who grows okra with very little water and gets a good yield, because I always thought ones requires plenty of water. Searching said without with water, the nutrient uptake is poor, so you can eat it, but I’m guessing nutrition is low.
I’ve grown Okra! The water thing is true if you grow Okra in it’s own area by itself. There’s a collective “water-burden” crops can have when you’re growing certain ones together. Okra can soak up plenty of water if you give it plenty of water; from other plants even! Certain plants that suck up water quicker/need more water will draw water from other slower plants which is why it’s good to separate your garden.
If I was in a survival situation I think I would just absolutely fill my garden with root veggies and hopefully be able to procure some more vitamin supplements because of where I live. Potatoes, tubers, jamaican yams in containers. Shit loads of walnut trees around here too. I don’t think there’s anything I can grow in the winter.
Yeah when we grew it we had a separate patch and made sure it had water, so I was astonished my neighbor grows it with so little. I was going to suggest okra for our comrade but had a hunch there was a catch, so when I read that, I didn’t say anything. Root veggies are nutrient dense, assuming soil and water conditions are good. And ofc organic fertilizer is preferable to manufactured fertilizer but we do what we can. Humans are surprisingly adaptable and resilient, but at the end of the day, we’re still humans and needs unmet for too long has real negative impacts.
Err you like can. I’ve seen like those fancy insta steaks from those like celebrity chefs and they like have gold on them.
So you can like totally eat gold…
that one Fallout DLC but instead of having to drop all the gold bars you get to keep them only to realize that nobody cares.
True economy understanders know that the point of keeping the gold bars is to dunk on Elijah’s stupid old ass. Also, they look cool in the bathtub in your room in Novac.
They’re worth a shitload of caps; depends on how early on you do the DLC. I usually do it second so those gold bars are worth loads.