Buckets

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Growing up in Utah left me with a lifelong concern about food security.

The trait has two sources, the first is a family history of almost-poverty coupled with the small truck farm that the family rotated around. The second was living in Utah back when the LDS church ran the show and didn't even try to hide it. The two year supply was really the only part of that church that I fully agreed with (overall, they did slightly better than the catholics and way ahead of the baptists theologically).

So I am heading out with my son today to pick up freezer meat and dry storage. I think that the price of nitrogen going way up this time of year, coupled with the price of diesel heading the same way will lead to a not very good harvest and prices in the fall that will make the current prices look like the "good old days".

I can't really say that my current plan is going to last for years. But having a full pantry does allow one a cushion to make decisions about day to day life a little easier.

No, this isn't the apocalypse a coming. Personally, I very much doubt that there will ever be such an event. But cold times come and it is often the details that make the difference between catastrophe and simple hard times. I think that hard times actually sharpen people even though they are unpleasant.