Covid 19 right now ! And post covid 19

[MaryN]

MB, I can appreciate everything you and SS are saying. Personally, I have been a gardener since I was a nipper, and am lucky enough to be able to grow much of the fruit and vegetables we eat at home. We also keep chickens for eggs. I live in the country and, again, we are lucky enough to own a smallholding which could easily provide much of what we needed, in worse case scenario. You are right in saying that the latest generation of humans has lost contact with the basics of growing stuff. I have spent the last week trying to drill knowledge into the mind of a neighbour to help her start on the process of being a "gardener". It has been an amusing and hair-tearing experience. I am beginning to wonder if the DNA of the young'uns has been altered! There is, I suspect, no hope for some of them.

Luckily, here, we have yeast! (I stockpiled it as soon as the dreaded microbe was showing signs of being a problem, along with a load of other stuff).