Where Most Prepping Falls Short:

[Devonian]

(1 December 2014, 17:48)bigpaul Wrote: most farming these days is done on an industrial level, as NR says heavy on man made pesticides and fertilisers, using the "monocropping" method, most of that land would be STERILE without those same man made additives and would take years and years to bring back into a natural balance. natural forms of farming were abandoned years ago in pursuit of higher yields and even higher profits.

Agreed about the sterile side of things, but there is also a lot of pasture land as well which has basically never been planted on, and so doesn't suffer in the same way, so we are still not totally doomed, just yet