Economics and Politics of Gardening

Everyone knows that a farmer works “from sun to sun”, but few people understand why he’d be stupid not to, so a brief look into the economics of food growth is in order. Let’s imagine, for the sake of having a model, that this short list is everything you have to do to get a tomato plant to grow in a pot, and produce food:  

1. Procure a flower pot.
2. Fill it with soil.
3. Bury a seed.
4. Add water.
5. Wait for the plant to produce ten tomatoes.

An experienced gardener would add a few steps to that process to increase his rate of success, but food production is possible with that minimal investment of capital and labor, so we’ll keep it that simple, to more easily make the point.

With those steps required to produce one tomato plant, how much ADDITIONAL capitol and labor is required to produce two tomato plants?
You can do the math if you like, but I’m not going to, because it’s easy to see that once you’ve set out to grow one plant, it’s only a tiny amount of work that has to be added to the formula to produce two plants, and believe it or not, this simple fact is a miracle of production.

You see, if you’re building cars, houses, or pianos, there’s a given amount of material and labor that goes into every unit produced, and it doesn’t change much whether you’re building ten, or a thousand units.

The farmer, on the other hand, gets an ever-increasing return on his labor. If it takes thirty minutes of labor to grow one plant that produces ten tomatoes, it will only take him thirty-five minutes to produce two plants, that give him twenty tomatoes, thereby doubling his return, for a minimal, or even negligible increase in investment.

This same concept holds true whether you’re growing tomatoes in flower pots, or driving a combine across fields of grain. If you’re in the business of growing food, there will always be a huge increase in return for a minimum of additional labor, so like the tomato planter who doubles his tomato yield by simply watering two pots instead of one, a farmer who drives a combine for twelve hours, would gladly cover another field in twelve and a half.

This is why successful farms are always expanding, or trying to, and this is also why everyone’s garden will always expand until it’s constrained by either time, or space.

Sooner or later the farmer has to shut down the combine and go to sleep, and so do you. That would be one possible time constraint, but if the farmer shuts down his combine before he’s tired, he’ll be looking to buy some adjacent property.

You’ll do the same thing. Your garden will expand until you’ve planted all the arable land available to you, or you’re out of time to devote to gardening due to fatigue, or other responsibilities. Gardeners that run out of horizontal space, have learned to expand their gardens vertically.

In addition to this ever-increasing return on labor, farming also gives you an incredible return in terms of seeds invested. Every seed planted gives birth to hundreds more every year, and this huge profit is only a by-product of producing the food you need.

And the economics of farming become truly miraculous when you consider that it’s the only form of production that actually produces its own raw materials. If left completely alone, the plant growth, death, and decay process will produce it’s own seeds, fertilizer, and even the soil itself.

The farmer, or gardener’s job is to optimize soil conditions for plants he wants to grow, and eliminate as much competition for the soil’s nutrients as possible.

With no other form of production showing anywhere near the returns we see on time and labor invested in farming, all we need is a little demand for the product and we’ll have a successful business. The mass hunger that accompanies economic collapse will provide all the demand you need.

We’ve made toasters, cars, nukes and space shuttles, and none of it has done us any good, and no form of human production has ever rivaled the production bequeath us by the hand of God, in economic terms, or in benefit to our families, friends, and mankind in general.

Or, as Thomas Jefferson said it; “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.” Farmers are God’s chosen people.

Politically, food, or the lack thereof, has always been used as a weapon, and it is being so used once again, or, if we return to the divine perspective, we’ve allowed God’s food production to fall into Satan’s hands.

We’re already familiar with how the various Zionist media outlets have collaborated to deceive the American people on a grand scale, but what’s overlooked is the same concentration of ownership behind our food supply, and it’s resulted in a poorly nourished, weakened, and comparatively sickly population. Cancer rates have skyrocketed not just due to the chemicals we’re exposed to, but because of our own body’s compromised ability to fight them off and heal itself. Americans in general are much less healthy than the previous generations who produced their own food, and attacking our ability to produce our own food seems to be high on our “government’s” agenda.

Independent farms that weren’t bought out, were forced out, and today this nation’s food supply has fallen under the control of a handful of people, who happen to be your political enemies, if not the enemies of most of mankind. Government agents attack, and harass any independent farmers who remain, and they’ve gotten so ridiculous about it, that even some Amish farmers were arrested for bootlegging tomatoes.

Across the country there’s obviously been a policy put in place that seeks to keep Americans dependent upon a few corporations for their nourishment, if you’re willing to call it “nourishment” at all, and these same purveyors of “food” have just spent millions fighting for the legal right to unknowingly poison you with genetically engineered substitutes. Even if they lost the legal battle, is this who you want feeding your family?

The obvious solution is the only solution, that of course being that every American should be burying seeds in any arable patch of soil he can find or gather, and producing all the food he can. We all know what’s happening in Venezuela right now, but I’m willing to bet that there are a lot of people in Venezuela you’ll hear nothing about, because they had their own food supply.

We’ll need all you can do to feed the militia, and the nation of hungry people who stand behind them, so it’s important that you’re doing all you can to produce food, which is a crucial, but often overlooked aspect of winning this war, and getting our nation back. It’s not too late to get a garden started anywhere, in backyards or in buckets, and it’s not too difficult to do, so there’s no excuse for not having some food sprouting this summer. A few seeds in the ground today will most definitely become a lot more important than you realize right now.    — Jolly Roger

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”   — Henry Kissinger

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