Having enough to eat is getting harder to manage because of climate change. More than half of all of the food producing land in the USA was in drought at the same time recently. We can expect more disruption of our normal food growing as climate change gets worse. This will be exacerbated by increasingly scarce and more expensive transportation of that food.
Growing food locally is going to be necessary. You can't get more local than growing your own food. If you grow your own food you are much less likely to go hungry.
Underground greenhouses can make food growing much easier to manage. Walipini greenhouses are a type of greenhouse that I favor. Here is a link that I already have handy:
It is not what I prefer to give you first, but I have to go do stuff and it is all I have time for right now. I will get you better links that explain this type of greenhouse as soon as I can. I just want to get you started thinking about this for now.
Here is a more interesting link to an underground greenhouse to look at. It is not a Walipini, but it sure caught my attention because it is in the snow and they have lemon trees in it. There are other greenhouses in the snow of various types, but my preference is for those that economize on fuel more. This link is supposed to spend $600 a year for heating. That is reasonable for running a cold weather greenhouse that big, but an underground one heated with a rocket stove would probably be a lot cheaper than this one:
This video compares and explains different types of greenhouses, which is helpful if you want help in choosing a type of greenhouse. I have trouble listening to this video because of the loud background music making what he has to say difficult to pick out, but most of you will not have that problem if your hearing is ok.
I think that in most places an underground greenhouse is better because of them being able to survive many disasters. We will be getting more and more disasters as time passes due to climate change. It would be inconvenient to have to keep rebuilding your greenhouse all the time. If you build a very cheap greenhouse and don't have to put much labor into building it and consider that greenhouse disposable, then no problem rebuilding it all the time.
Growing food locally is going to be necessary. You can't get more local than growing your own food. If you grow your own food you are much less likely to go hungry.
Underground greenhouses can make food growing much easier to manage. Walipini greenhouses are a type of greenhouse that I favor. Here is a link that I already have handy:
It is not what I prefer to give you first, but I have to go do stuff and it is all I have time for right now. I will get you better links that explain this type of greenhouse as soon as I can. I just want to get you started thinking about this for now.
Here is a more interesting link to an underground greenhouse to look at. It is not a Walipini, but it sure caught my attention because it is in the snow and they have lemon trees in it. There are other greenhouses in the snow of various types, but my preference is for those that economize on fuel more. This link is supposed to spend $600 a year for heating. That is reasonable for running a cold weather greenhouse that big, but an underground one heated with a rocket stove would probably be a lot cheaper than this one:
I think that in most places an underground greenhouse is better because of them being able to survive many disasters. We will be getting more and more disasters as time passes due to climate change. It would be inconvenient to have to keep rebuilding your greenhouse all the time. If you build a very cheap greenhouse and don't have to put much labor into building it and consider that greenhouse disposable, then no problem rebuilding it all the time.
