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A lot of people will ask “what can I do” after hearing about the change that is to come. There are many things that you can do – and a good many of them are actually active. You can take classes, watch a movie, read a book, or even start building your own community!
There is a ton of skill sets that have been lost to time or the “modern age.” Talk to your elders – your parents or grand parents or if you have them – your GREAT grand parents! Ask them what life for them was like, how they lived, where their food came from.
Become informed! Don’t sit like a lump being afraid of what to do. Pick up a hobby that is related to producing food. Many Americans already do one thing that is a VERY useful skill – gardening. Now, just experiment with your garden. See how productive you can make it. Play around with what foods you are buying at the grocery store and buy seeds for those vegetables. See how much food you can produce out of the least amount of space. Challenge yourself. Imagine you had to feed your family from what came out of your garden.
There are books you can read. Classes to take. Movies to watch. The list goes on! Look at every aspect of your own life and try and figure out where “x” came from – how was “x” made, produced, machined, put together. Look around you right now – how many items in your life could you do without or replace with a version that you made?
As I type this on a plastic computer, drinking a glass of lemonade, having hung up the phone with a friend, staring at books on my bookshelf, sitting on a chair that is padded and upholstered with a woven fabric, wearing clothes that were spun, woven, and sewed together, there is an endless amount of trades and skills that are being utilized. Can you learn to do just one of these skills?