Children's Communism and the Reality of Gardening for Survival

Photos of the garden in the supposed "Autonomous Zone" in Seattle have been circulating the internet for a few days. Many people have been mocking the photos because they're absurd. The garden in the CHAZ is a very typical example of ideological virtue signaling, which is appropriate to that whole absurd situation. It's something a 12 year old might do. It shows why communists are dangerous and why that system ends up killing millions of people whenever it's adopted on a large scale. It's a system that appeals to psychotic mental children.

The vast majority of people in the United States and around the world are the descendants of farmers. Only a handful of decades ago, most people were employed in agriculture, and a century ago, people depended on their own farms and the local community farms for sustenance. Those people had a cultural knowledge base that had been acquired over thousands of years, and had a huge amount of infrastructure for farming and processing and storing food.

Today, that's mostly gone, so if you return to farming via gardening, the learning curve is surprisingly steep, and most of the knowledge that's needed is very subtle and not easy to acquire. The main obstacle that will defeat typical would-be homesteaders is farming/gardening success depends on understanding the particular climate and soil conditions of your property. The mountain of information that's available on the Internet, in books, and on YouTube doesn't yield a recipe that can be just applied anywhere. Trial and error and careful observation, and a good memory and mind are needed to succeed.

Also, gardening on even a modest scale requires quite a bit of infrastructure that most homes lack. A large part of "farming" is building structures and infrastructure. If you don't do it yourself, you'll probably go broke paying people to do it.

If you plant and harvest a year's worth of potatoes for your family, you need a place to store them that's safe from pests, and is dark and cool. In the prior era, most homes had a root cellar, now almost none do. Similarly, if you have a large crop of veggies or strawberries or blueberries you either have to sell them, and have all that setup, or can or freeze them, which requires other infrastructure.

Then, once you start a garden, it requires year 'round maintenance and planning. Anyway, the point is that attempting to start your own farm is difficult and it's relatively "expensive" to try to break away from the beast system and be more independent. I think it's a very good trade to convert fake money that sprays out of banks for that infrastructure though.

Chances are, you and your family won't be capable of supporting yourself with a garden. It would take you a few years of part time weekend work at the minimum to build up the infrastructure from scratch to obtain 1/10th of your calories.