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Post by synergy on Oct 13, 2014 11:39:20 GMT -5
We should start a thread on the basics one should grow and suggested varieties for common household food products : ) So if you want to make ketchup first you grow varieties of apples and mustard for seed, then build a pantry , then grow said variety of tomatoes,green peppers, onions...
It seems to be the way things are going if we want reasonably clean food.
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Post by templeton on Nov 10, 2014 23:20:40 GMT -5
Ummm, just checked the latest on international food prices over at the UN FAO. Contra the notion in the title of this thread, international food prices have been falling since the start of 2011. Dig up the vege garden and plant roses!  |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Nov 11, 2014 0:37:30 GMT -5
Ummm, just checked the latest on international food prices over at the UN FAO. Contra the notion in the title of this thread, international food prices have been falling since the start of 2011. Dig up the vege garden and plant roses! I read that chart to say that food prices are double what they were in 2002-2004 when the index price was set to 100. |
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Post by philagardener on Nov 11, 2014 6:47:07 GMT -5
Sort of like the stock market - when prices fall, the advice is not to sell but to pursue strategies to profit from the eventual turn-around. Watch out for the thorns!
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Post by templeton on Nov 11, 2014 16:16:20 GMT -5
Ummm, just checked the latest on international food prices over at the UN FAO. Contra the notion in the title of this thread, international food prices have been falling since the start of 2011. Dig up the vege garden and plant roses! I read that chart to say that food prices are double what they were in 2002-2004 when the index price was set to 100. True, Joseph. I was being a bit glib. I had just re-read Atash's original post back in Nov 2010, when he was making dire predictions based on a year or two of data. Just wanted to make the point that the sky isn't falling - just sagging a bit. If we take the base as $100, years = 11, current amount =$200, works out as a compound rate of just over 6.5% compounded annually - a bit less if we compound monthly. In either case it's hardly "soaring". I don't pour over the commodity price indicators, or examine entrails for the signs that economists (and conspiracy theorists) seem to base their predictions on  I'm just not convinced that we are facing imminent global collapse - whether this is a good reason to grow your own food is a slightly different discussion. |
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Post by steev on Nov 11, 2014 21:36:50 GMT -5
I think the best predictions are gotten when one examines the entrails of economists and conspiracy theorists, if only because the immanent possibility of such examination tends to rein in their flights of fancy.
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Post by reed on Jun 27, 2015 8:49:07 GMT -5
I'm not sure higher food prices might not be a good thing. More people might start to realize it doesn't just magically appear in stores. Maybe more would get interested in growing some of their own. Maybe it would get more profitable to grow it for local markets and more appealing to buy it there.
People who can complain whine the cost of an egg while happily accepting their monthly cell phone charges and interest on a $40,000 car loan as necessities of life get on my nerves a little.
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I'm just not convinced that we are facing imminent global collapse - whether this is a good reason to grow your own food is a slightly different discussion.
