OPEN THREAD: Have you tested your soil? How did it help inform your amendment / crop selection?

If you've not -- it is recommended! Otherwise it's a black box . . .

https://loganlabs.com/get-started.html

#OpenThread

US federal government labels as terrorist anyone who questions COVID, anyone who questions the election.

“Yes it’s real” I’ve had to tell several people already.

So, posting an OPEN THREAD for critical thinkers: how do you feel about having the state openly declare war on you?

#OpenThread

OPEN THREAD: Where is safest place for next few years? How do you balance/mitigate the geophysical/food/socioeconomic/tyranny risks ?

The agenda is clearly a worldwide one, but there were some interesting comments on the previous post, so let’s hear thoughts:

Who will most easily ride out this ATTEMPTED Great Reset + space weather insanity?

See the 750+ comments in @iceagefarmer

#OpenThread

OPEN THREAD: How is your harvest this year ?

What surprises, good and bad?

What lessons learned for even more abundance next year? We’d all love to hear.

[ See the 375+ response thread over in : @iceagefarmer ]

#OpenThread

“God Help Us” — I saw this overhead photo of a Montreal protest yesterday, and it has stuck with me:

It’s not a protest at this point, because the “leaders” aren’t listening...indeed they are the ones perpetrating this war on the people, on humanity. It is a prayer.

A commenter earlier said “How can you still say ‘grow a garden’ when we are up against nanotech / biowarfare.

I know my answer. What is yours?

What solutions do you propose? What keeps you going?

OPEN THREAD!

Please share the thread; let’s circulate and get a sense for how each other are doing…

#OpenThread

OPEN THREAD: What surprising lessons have you learned about preserving / storing food?

Many people are JUST getting started — this thread is for sharing stories of what works well, or even what HASN’T worked, to help everyone with this critical undertaking.

Vacuum sealing, freeze drying ($!), dehydrating, canning, salting, smoking, burying tubers, root cellars, fermenting/pickling, sun-drying …

N.b. There is also a room dedicated to this topic in the IAF guilded server (like discord, but we were banned from there for too much truth!): https://iceagefarmer.com/guilded

#FoodStorage #OpenThread

OPEN THREAD!! What are you planting / transplanting today!?

Need some ideas?
→ Check the zone map & a simple planting calendar:

https://thevictoryseed.org/zonecal/

#OpenThread

Food crisis in TEN WEEKS?

What are you doing today to grow food and raise animals tomorrow? How can you improve your community’s resilience through these engineered food shortages?

#OpenThread and I’ll be planting even more !

https://www.foxnews.com/world/zelenskyys-global-food-crisis-official

What’s growing well for you so far this season??

#OpenThread !

OPEN THREAD: It’s mid July! What’s growing well for you this year? What new animals are you raising this year?

#OpenThread

OPEN THREAD: Many reports of empty shelves, rationing at Costco and others.

Also hearing lots of reports of poor germination/yields from seeds from corporate sources (home depot, etc)..

What are you seeing in your neck of the woods?

#OpenThread

OPEN SOURCE INTEL: I’d posted to @iceagefarmer that I’d received many reports of poor germination and other issues from corporate seed sources, and asked people to share what they were seeing.

Over 700 people replied. Here is a summary; huge thanks to Kate B. for reviewing, compiling, and sharing. It paints an interesting picture of a uniquely difficult season. Original thread here. (How's your garden doing?)

[ Join the garden group: @iaf_garden ! More groups: @iaf_groups ]

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Just been through about 700+ comments from the US, Canada, Europe, UK, Sweden, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and beyond:

a) seeds are showing poor germination from a wide range of suppliers
b) those that do germinate and start to grow are doing so i) slower than usual OR ii) are getting so far in their growth then dying (a bit like Tesco's herbs unless you transplant into fresh earth!) OR iii) are growing well but producing greenery not edible produce, so poor yields
c) suspicion is also falling on contaminated bagged compost -- many reports of issues here, some discussion around Grazon contamination
d) in addition, folks are noticing that store bought veg & fruit is not lasting, plus some is rotten on opening although firm externally
e) suggestions also being made about soil alkalinity from chemtrails inhibiting growth
f) some people raising animals are getting all male babies [!?]
g) sunflowers & other plants are being burnt up by the sun's rays
h) there is poor growth/yield from fruit trees
j) plentiful complaints from folks that have been growing for 25-40 years that things just aren't right with a degree of confusion as to the source
k) livestock feed prices are skyrocketing
l) many sick & dead animals around this year & dead birds found daily (Italy)
m) too hot/ too dry/ no rain/ storms/ erratic weather with false forecasting
n) absence of bees for pollination
p) cold nights inhibiting growth
q) abundance of pests & bugs at levels not seen before
r) zucchini with zero female flowers
s) blatant chemtrail spraying with some warning of "cancer in the ground for gardeners",
t) healthy hens stopping laying
u) pullets dropping dead at 6 months with no obvious cause
v) cooler spring so plants are a month behind
w) hard to get the cows/goats back in calf
x) change in taste of store bought veg/fruit
y) salads are going straight to seed and bolting
z) overall poor germination & growth - a weird growing year,

Common phrase: "Never seen anything like it in 30 years"