farmer john

APOCALYPSE FARMER JOHN

( there is a guest article that was posted just before this one-scroll down )

We were just talking about the foolishness in following the “experts” advice when it comes time for relocation ( you can still buy a $40 coffee table book on the same based mostly on the Cold War Soviet strategy of targeting their ICBM’s ).  I’d like to just take a moment here to add on to that in one other aspect.  A lot of preppers relocate primarily because of farming.  I’m not knocking it.  If I thought I had another five years before the collapse, and I was five years younger ( even with such an active job physically, I have been starting to feel my age the last few years.  I’ll stay healthy, but I doubt I’ll stay pain free ), I’d probably do the same thing.  What I’m saying is that you might be in for a bit of a surprise, the crazy climate change we’ve been having regularly, everywhere ( I could care less if it is man made, solar cycles, whatever.  It’s baked into the cake, it’s already happening ).  Anywhere you move to, the weather which has been kind to the locals for over five hundred years is turning violent and unpredictable.  Last winter, it was New York City weather in Alaska ( above freezing in February!!! ) and Alaska weather on the east coast.  Many years in a row the Pacific northwest has been in drought ( yes, they get plenty of rain compared to other places, but not enough rain for their flora and fauna ).

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Las Vegas without water isn’t anything new or shocking, but they and Phoenix are the poster boys for the southwest drying up and blowing away.  And California gets taken with them.  California used to feed most of us everything except Texas beef and Kansas grain.  Sure, it was always an engineered system, but the weather change there making that infrastructure useless is happening everywhere.  Homesteaders in Oklahoma and elsewhere in the South are doing drought regularly.  Given the population densities, I’d worry even if I had a well.  And on the east coast, it isn’t just the bizarre cold, they are also getting flooding regularly.  Drought or flood, either or, never your choice, seem to be the new seasons now.  Here in Elko, June was our summer and since then it has been Spring rains nearly every day, and humidity I thought I’d never seen here.  I’m sure each of you can give a similar example.  If you move anywhere, expect abnormal weather.  And if you plan on farming, you had better have Plan B and C.  The folks who moved to good farmland which is now drying up are just like those swindled poor bastards buying west of the meridian Kansa land while it had an unseasonably wet few years, then reverted to normal ( the weird weather could be nothing more than our return to normal, the roughly 1940 to 1980 or so near perfect global weather saying goodbye.  We mitigated that return with petroleum, which is now disappearing ). 

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