Armchair Critic- Thanks for the comparison between male and female apples. Cheers.

Posted by NathanJ, Thursday, 28 March 2019 10:52:51 AM

Let's say prices have risen substantially as there is a strangle hold by two large providers who are dictating food prices internationally and have access to nearly all of the fresh food market.

Answer- If I found myself or my community unable to be self sufficient I would need to look at the supply and demand side of the problem and address both. If there was a duopoly of all resources the only options appear to be "to kill or to die"

*Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 28 March 2019 11:43:04 AM

Do you live in a high rise Canem Malum? Your answer indicates little experience with stock.

If you are going to have chickens & goats, you are going to need a lot of strong fencing wire & posts, if you want to have a garden as well.

I think watching reruns of "The Bush Tucker Man" might become necessary in this scenario.

Answer- Thanks for your feedback Hasbeen- I understand that you have a good understanding of the subject matter. I have some understanding of chickens less about goats and I do appreciate that putting vegetables within eye-sight of goats is likely to make veggies mysteriously vanish. I enjoy building fences but I'm sure they aren't up to your high standards- I have a very useful "star dropper driver" (usually I buy 7' droppers at the ag store) that I keep around along with a 200 metre spool of barbed wire. At any rate if (as NathanJ prognosticated in his thread) the price of food underwent extreme inflation this it seems that the best option would be to learn how to grow my own food. Then I could benefit twice!

If you have any advise for a budding "prepper" I'm sure you are very knowledgeable. Generally I'm good with tools

They don't make star pickets like they used to.
- Cheap Chinese steel rusts out in a couple of years -

I just came from having a ½ hr conversation with a senior federal Parliamentarian & I must admit I was floored by the explanations I got to my questions.
It literally is pointless to try & convince people on the merits of decency & accountability.
This person enlightened me on matters of Flat tax, National Service, Welfare, old age Pension & asset test etc.
Govt simply can not perform properly because of the average voter sabotaging everything Govt is trying to achieve. It's the average voter who just demands but won't move a little finger to help solve problems. Everyone just wants & wants. The stories about Welfare cheats are mind-boggling. Then there are the parents of utterly indisciplined kids, simply scary ! The mentality of the average Citizen as I perceived it is plain & simply unworkable.
I pray Labor doesn't get in to completely ruin any chance there could be to make this society a more considerate one !

Armchair Critic- Good tip about star pickets- thanks.

Individual- I remember Malcolm Turnbull talking about the limits of power- it seems to dove-tail with your experience today.