I have conditions like Whirlibird. I’m at extremely high altitude in ROCKY mountains. Emphasis on ROCKY. When you look around here, you do not see anywhere NEAR the level of diversity of plants/wildlife that is seen in more popular places to live. Less oxygen. Less days between last frost in June and first one in August or Sept. We decompose granite here….LOL {regional joke}. Composting more difficult due to arid conditions. Composting does occur but it takes a lot more manual labor and attention. I’ve got a 8′ pile of duckhouse straw that should not even be there….if we lived in a moist climate. I could go on and on about the barriers to producing enough CALORIES to keep your cells from dying….let alone nutrient diversity. In MY particular location.
Here is something I’ve repeatedly told people: Research the Pre-Technological people groups who lived in YOUR area. What did they eat and how did they survive the harsh seasons. In some areas that’s the HEAT of summer. In other areas, it’s the COLD of winter. IF they could do it, we can. Right? Well…yeah…kinda.
OK…reality check. How high was their mortality rates? What skills did they have that we’d need to learn. Remember they were acclimated from birth to living ‘rough’. ….and that returns back to the former times when many cultures did not even NAME babies unless they “made one year”. Hawiian culture still celebrates when “baby made one year”. Due to tradition rather than high infant mortality rates currently.
What I discovered about MY location is that none of the people groups stayed up here during winter. They migrated by the seasons. Yeah – that confirms what I’ve been suspecting for the past few decades up here……….
I need to move if we lose too much of the technology that makes it POSSIBLE to eat adequate calories and heat homes up here. I clearly live in the wrong place for a serious, long lasting Stuff Hits Fan scenario. Whether that be changing weather conditions, which we’ve already seen or something else. It didn’t use to be this blasted cold up here. And we used to get regular rains. …..Ah, but not further back in history than I can claim. So it’s always changing and we need to position ourselves wisely.
Anyway, facing your OWN reality is certainly not “whining”. That was an uninformed and presumptuous statement, MineYourMind. We don’t usually run into rudeness here, by the way.
The fact is, even ….or maybe ESPECIALLY …..those of us who are only TOO aware of the precarious nature of our current location, have taken steps to learn and store and construct and try and try and try again to get around whatever makes OUR little portion of real estate livable for now and for any changes in the future.
I recently ran into data about someone who is actually doing a greenhouse in MY type of conditions. A $$$ lot of investment. Don’t know completely how they’re doing it but I look into these things constantly. I’ve done many, many things to adapt to this plot of ground. Pretty much figure hydroponics would be needed. Yet I’ve no clue as to how to produce enough CALORIES! I’ve read about that factor extensively. We don’t have salmon….which is one of the highest. Deer would be outtta here in the first months. Grains….from where most calories are gained. I grew up in corn country. I know what we’re missing here.
So…..I store a lot of what I can’t produce. And when that’s gone – one will migrate if you have to….like all the PreTech folks who lived before us. Or migrate before it gets bad. I believe if we ever end up in a Post-Tech scenario….it will be very similar within a few decades to PreTech. Cuz the tech stuff wears out. We can hope that doesn’t happen…or that after a lag, we get a restart on tech stuff again.
OldMtWoman ….has been on this topic for decades!
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