Thinking about the upcoming year. If The tariffs on our neighbors are put in place and half the farm labor force is deported not only is the cost of food going to go way up but the availability of food may become a problem. I think it may be a good idea to re implement the old Victory Garden idea. If you have some room on your land for a garden even a small space think about what you can grow there every mouthful you grow will be important.

Start NOW order seeds and get varieties you can save see from not GMO types that dont produce viable seeds. Think about getting some flats for seed starting and a few bags of potting soil . Pic out the spot for you garden and start working on preparing the soil NOW. Till the soil now if you can so you dont have to fight grass growth in spring you can then cover the garden space with black plastic which on sunny winter days will heat the soil and kill out grass and weed seeds so you dont have to fight them come spring.

If you have a source of animal manure you can spread that and till it in before you put down the plastic to act as fertilizer. If not go ahead and get some garden fertilizer now and set it back for use come spring. Give it some thought folks you can grow a lot of food on a small plot if you plan ahead and do rotations with early mid summer and fall plantings . I will post more thoughts on this over time. Lets think ahead and do our best to make sure our families have food.