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Re:What Is Permaculture? by dogcomplex on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:23PM (#35881651)
Yeah, and even if you're that worried about societal agricultural instability, you're better off spending hobby time to make something like a dead-simple replicatable potato growing kit and distributing it out at a loss. Barring something truly irreversibly apocalyptic, that'd provide most of what's needed until things rebound.
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Re:What Is Permaculture? by saalweachter on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @10:29PM (#35882940)
Or you could get involved in public policy.

I assume there are some boffins somewhere in the US's $4 trillion dollar budget -- USDA, probably -- who are coming up with plans for things like "what if wheat is decimated by a blight?" or "what if Missouri is just, all flooded?". Probably a bunch of academics at various Midwest universities, too.

There are already grants and other public programs to support community gardens and local agriculture; a community garden should be the perfect place to apply permaculture.

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