cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/27367245
What are you doing, or what do you want to do, or what do you think that people should do, in order to achieve food security and avoid the most severe impacts of the worldwide trend toward cost-of-living crises, resource depletion, tariffs and trade wars, impediments to migration, accelerating climate change, and so on?
Are you currently producing your own food? Do you think that you’re secure where you are, or that you will be in a few years, or do you plan to move somewhere else?
Do you forage? Dumpster dive? Do you share food with friends and neighbours? Do you trade services for food?
Just wondering who is out there and how they’re managing…
Right now we’re both gardening –trying to go full-scale urban farm, in fact, but not there yet– and participating deeply in local mutual aid networks and the gift economy.
Dumpster diving just isn’t where it’s at, anymore, for food. Most grocers willingly participate in “grocery rescue” programs, which usually routes unsold food to pantries, community kitchens, love fridges, and mutual aid “free stores”. They get tax write-offs and save on their garbage bill, volunteers take away old baked goods, sketchy produce, and nearly-expired prepared or preserved foods.
And of course, eating less meat and getting a greater percentage of it from local farms.