EP 004 Food Shortages, Gardening, and Homesteading

Sal and Quinton discussed the looming potential food shortages that many Americans could be facing in the wake of big Ag dumping and killing products before they go to market.

Livestock Ideas
Chickens (layers/meat), turkey, quail, goats (nubian/mini nubian), sheep/lamb

Gardening Ideas
Growing: potatoes, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, corn, jalapeños, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, garlic. Plant spaghetti squash, pumpkins, tomatillos, butternut, bell peppers. We have an herb bed in another spot and have pumpkins and watermelons scattered all over the property.

America could be weeks from meat shortages with shutdowns spreading
https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/meat-supply-threats-grow-with-first-brazil-shutdown-u-s-turkey-halt

Farmers Face Their Worst Case Scenario: ‘Depopulating’ Chickens, Euthanizing Pigs And Dumping Milk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jennysplitter/2020/04/28/farmers-face-their-worst-case-scenarios-depopulating-chickens-euthanizing-pigs-and-dumping-milk/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie%2F#4c3681f43003

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-livestock-insight/piglets-aborted-chickens-gassed-as-pandemic-slams-meat-sector-idUSKCN2292YS

Trump orders meat processing plants to stay open
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/defense-production-act-executive-order-food-supply/index.html

Back to Eden – Documentary
https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/