Personal Notes and Experience with the Notable:

>>8966654 Wyoming passes new law so ranchers can sell meat directly to the people

Anons, back in the great depression, 9 out of ten Americans lived on a farm, where food was not as scarce. Today, 9 out of ten live in the city. If we get hit with food shortages, it will be worse than the great depression. Here are some things I think many anons would be glad to know are possible:

1) Farmers rent farm land to farmers. In Ohio, it costs about 50-100 dollars a year to rent an acre. If you got together with 9 people or more, and went to visit a farmer, you could no doubt rent land for the garden you need, and work it with your 9 city folk. The farmer would probably till the land for your cooperative garden in exchange for some free food off your rented acres. Find someone close, and use dripworks.com for inexpensive water drip tape if your state requires garden watering. Learn about fertilizer, and how to grow organic. If your farmer is close enough, and you can visit every day, learn to use chickens to weed your garden, and just take care of your chickens every day. (Pic 1 related is exactly the type of "chicken weeder" or "Chicken tractor" I use. Put a couple hens in there during the day, and every one of those green weeds in the garden isle will be gone at the end of a couple hours or less. Keep moving the cage. You will get 2 eggs a day, as long as you also add feed. The bugs make for the best eggs and the healthiest shells.

Ok, you have a day job. Get networked with the farmers who love you now.

There are places on line where you can co-op with a farmer and order food for this season ahead of time. Below is one example. Look for others in YOUR state. Get food networked now. Farmers are cool people, and are always looking for friends and help.

Farming, gardening, canning, dairy processing, cheese making is a lot of fun. A cooperative like this is also a good place to start to network with the one out of ten Americans still living in the country if you have other questions, like… where to take your cow or chickens to be prepared for the table. Your fellow Americans on the farms will know … and they will tell you :)

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https://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/how-it-works/home-delivery

Growing your own food in small spaces at home:

Gardening is the nations largest coolest pastime… bigger than golf.

If you have a decent size backyard, mebbe 100 x 100 feet, you can grow an outrageous garden, and can/freeze everything for a family of 4. If you have less space, you can still grow a LOT of food, without much work, especially using "container gardening", or "straw bale gardening" (Pre prepared bales of straw placed in a line to make garden rows that you plant your garden plants in). The bales must be prepared now, in order to put plant in them weeks from now because they have to be set up to turn to compost on the inside. It's easy. Just pick up the right additives at the garden store to load into the bales, water, and wait a few weeks.

Best part?

No weeds.

See straw bale gardening on youtube. It is like an instant raised bed garden. Remove the straw in the fall and pile it over winter, to make compost for next year. Check out both container and straw bale gardening.

Going even smaller: Patio Container gardening for apartment dwellers!

Container gardening is getting to be a hoot, even for us homesteaders to watch. Y'all with your patios are putting us to shame!!! (And giving us ideas… kek) Check out the carrots this guy grows in TEN INCH BUCKETS!!! (Pic 3 related) Just plant two of these buckets for every bunch you would buy in the summer. Eat one, freeze the other for winter. The trick is in making the right soil before you plant. So take it plant type by plant type, sand, manuer, vermiculite, calcium, what ever special thing that plant needs, get it in there! Here is the man's site and soil mix stuff for carrots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btrCpoVZ5LE

Protein:

2) We have raised cattle for beef. If you raise three, sell two, the one you eat is just about free. We have them butchered locally. The local meat packers do a great job. Just need a freezer to put the meat in. You need two years, and an acre per cow. Yes it is work taking care of cows who learn to moo at you for food every time they see you go from the house to the car. Remember to name them properly. "Mr Hamburger", "Rump Roast" or "Sir Loin" are appropriate names to remind you that you are not raising pets.

Whats that?

No room for a cow?

Somewhere in your state, there is an Auction for cattle. Somewhere there is a beef farmer near you. Knock on the door. Talk to those farmers who run the veggie coop that will deliver crops to your door. They will give you the skinny.

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Learn about your state beef auction locations. Buy a cow at auction, and have a way to transport the cow to a pre-located local slaughter house. Call the slaughter house and tell them what you want to do, to get their procedures, dates etc. If you are within driving distance of Wyoming, this law probably only allows for in state sales direct to customers, so here is what you do. You get a farmer with a barn to buy cattle for your people, and bring them to your state. Now that the cows are owned by a farmer in YOUR state, most likely you will have state laws that will allow you to buy them off of your farmer friend. They have to be sent to an official slaughter house, they will be inspected, and they will be sent from your selected slaughter house to your selected butcher. Learn where the small slaughter houses and butchers are in your state.

Here is a page about our local Amish Auction in Ohio.

(pic 4 related is the inside of the auction house. Amish country is a great place to visit and learn. And REMEMBER… because this is IMPORTANT. If the Amish are doing it…. it is LEGAL in the US. The Amish have done us a great favor by preserving our rights to do things ourselves, from little school houses, to selling off of our own farms. Be thankful for them.

http://www.mthopeauction.com/

Where to have your dinner slaughtered and where to have it packed properly:

Before you go to an auction locate and call your closed slaughter house, and a good local butcher. Tell the slaughter house which butcher you want your cow sent to. They do the transport between in my state) It is not that hard to do. I have always raised my own pigs over the summer, but, I am betting there are also hog auctions where you can buy whole pigs too. Do it as a family, or group of friends and have fun with it as a project. Every state is different. But all states that have family farms also have local slaughter houses for those family farms, and local butchers for those farmers. You just need a good size freezer for a cow. This meat situation will probably be the most time consuming to set up because each state is so different. We really need to go back to true freedom, and allow farmers and small local butchers to do the local again…. get rid of some really bad regulations that require meat to be raised and slaughtered in numbers and locations so huge it causes problems for small farms (and for the conditions the cows live in). Here is a good article on the slaughterhouse problem in SOME states. https://thecounter.org/americas-slaughterhouse-mess/

Dairy:

I'm in Ohio. About 10 years ago, I had to buy an interest in a cow at a local Amish Farm, to have the legal right to get raw milk from MY cow, and learn to process it myself. The kids loved it, and long for those days. It was a hoot. If you decide to do raw milk and learn about cheese making, sour cream, yogurt, ice cream making, do it from grass fed cows.

Here is a state by state run down on how to handle raw milk from dairy farmers in the various states:

https://milk.procon.org/raw-milk-laws-state-by-state/

20 states prohibit the sale of raw milk for human consumption. The way to get around that, is buy the cow, as a group. The milk from the cow is no longer being "sold". The owner is taking his own milk from his own cow. Do a contract with the farmer to keep the both of you out of trouble, and prove who owns the cow if the authorities should happen by. Own the cow if you live in one of these nasty farmer/consumer hating states, and you want to learn to process dairy at home.

Yeah, stupid law in a supposedly free country where there should never be a question about your right to pasteurize your own milk, make your own cheese, sour cream, yogurt, ice cream etc. Pasteurizing is holding at 140 degrees for 20 min, or 160 for ten. Good Grief.

These people think we are too stupid to boil water for tea, I swear.

Anyway, one last thing to pass on, should SHTF…..

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>>8969430

If you all city folk decide to panic for some reason, and run to the country cuz city living suddenly becomes too dangerous, scary … for what ever reason… and who knows these days…

REMEMBER THIS:

NO MATTER HOW HUNGRY you are… NO MATTER HOW PANICKED……

DO NOT KILL ANY DAIRY COWS!!!!

Those be the black and white ones mostly.

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One dairy cow will meat feed a family of four, for only a year.

One dairy cow makes 8 gallons of mammal milk a day which is a full survival diet for any other mammal. Humans are mammals. Raw mammal milk, is Gods perfect food, and the reason that ships have "steerage compartments". Bit O' History: EVERY pilgrim group died trying to get to the first harvest in America… until they brought the cows for the milk, which kept everyone alive until the first harvest! Once they figured out to take the cows and not KILL the cows, America was on her way to survival!

At a quart a day per person, you can save the lives of 32 people and keep them from starving from just ONE milking dairy cow if you keep it ALIVE. (Not to mention you get butter, milk, cheese, yogurt, sour cream…. all that good stuff is so much easier to make than you would ever think)

NEVER….. EVER… shoot a dairy cow to survive.

Help the farmer milk those cows if things get bad. If people in the city start to starve, those dairy cows are worth their weight in gold, and can absolutely save the nation from starvation, but only if we protect them and use them to save lives.

Love to Anons. Have fun with this.

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>>>8969430 (You)

>They should have just annulled the law that said ranchers couldn’t sell meat directly to people. What a bunch of shit that these politicians pass statutes that say ranchers can do this and can’t do that.

I could not agree with you more. What is a free country with inalienable rights, if you can not grow and sell your own food to your neighbors?????? And HOW did we ever get here????