My husband just asked me to make him a sack lunch before he goes to town. I asked him why, since I know he usually goes to his favorite burger fast food when he goes to town. His reply was " its to expensive go there and I'm not paying those prices. I'm going to stop and buy canned food with what I would have paid for the burger" Can I get a HALLELUJAH I MARRIED A GOOD MAN!!!
Was in a store a few days ago - I am 62 years old and I was buying some water and a older man I would say he was around 85 was pushing his cart and walking slowly , he had a few bags of rice , dry beans , flour and a few other small things in his cart., he had no candy , chips , soda , processed foods , he kindly said to me make sure to buy some dry goods and water . He had such a kind look in his eyes , but a worried look also , I told him that the dry goods aisle was my next place to go , We exchanged a Smile and a Take Care .. The thing is he was dressed like my Dad would dress and looked kinda like my Dad . My Dad passed away 31 years ago .
6 months ago my fiancé and I left our friends, family, jobs, and high-rise condos in Southern California behind to purchase a small plot of land in Oklahoma. This is our homesteading Chapter 1 but so far have goats for milk, pigs for meat, chickens for eggs, and have already delivered multiple babies on the farm! Grew my first few snap peas this week from seedlings and ate something from my own garden for the first time in my life! Again, this is our Chapter 1 and boyyyy has life changed in 6 months (not to mention ice, snow, tornadoes, and adjusting to small town rural life). Happy we woke up 👊🏼 thank you for all of your awesome videos!
2 days ago in a farm store, a woman was cussing farmers for telling people that fertilizer in areas is in short supply and the price of fertilizer is extremely high. She said she didn't know why farmers were complaining, because she was at Menards and they had a whole pallet full , of course I laughed and said LADY farmers buy fertilizer buy the semi truck load, not buy the 10 pound or 40 pound bags. Amazing that the public do not know what it takes to put food on their tables
Last night at my fav sandwich shop the waitress told me it’s been slow. Her fridge broke got 2 kids. I returned to the shop and gave her eggs to take home that don’t need refrigeration
Because we have not been able to sleep and when sleeping we consistently had anxiety dreams, we have shut it down. I'm almost 70, my husband is 70, and still working so we can buy what we need for me to can, dehydrate, grow, and other needs, the bare necessities. We decided to put on the blinders and no longer watch or listen to anyone and focus on what next to do to reach our goals. We listen to Patera, that is about it. We have been sleeping deep all this past week, thank God. Shut out all the noise, all the mouthpieces, pray, listen to that still small voice and march on, saints.
Watching an elderly lady searching the canned cat food broke my heart the other day. I know it's just a cat, which in comparison to the poor mom's searching for formula, is not as critical. However, to some people, that cat is their one source of companionship or joy! Sad, sad times.
People seem to have forgot where the lucky rabbits foot came from. It came from the depression because when people bought a rabbit to eat they started insisting that one foot be left on unskinned. That way they knew they were getting a rabbit and not a cat because skin them both and you can't hardly tell them apart.😲 Truth. Just saying.
For Mother's Day I received some very nice gifts from my son's and their family. But my one daughter in law gets it. She got me canning jars ! Bless her heart !
Leave that at Bless Her. You may not be where anybody says, Bless their Heart but it has the wrong meaning for your daughter-in-law in a lot of places. As I know it, it implies a person is very foolish or worse.
What I’m hearing now is that it’s not just a fertilizer problem, but also, farmers are not able to find/get a hold of tractor parts. This is dang scary.
Agree that even if I can find the equipment parts they are outrageously over priced. The shipping charges on heavy parts are through the roof also. The best option I have found is to search the farm equipment salvage yards.
Stop being scared. Frightened people are easily controlled and that's why our governments have been using psychological warfare techniques on us. Grow a backbone and get your house in order. Time is running out.
I just called my 85 year old mama and asked if she wanted me to take her to Aldi. She said no she has enough meat for the week! It’s Wednesday, which means she has 3-4 days of meat!! I’m picking her up in 30 minutes.
Yes The ones born in the 30s lived through the Depression but they were too young to understand the depression so yeah my dad‘s 87 I totally understand and I agree I love my mama and I miss her but I’m glad she doesn’t have to go through this mess.
We've been married 40 years and worked very hard to be able to retire. I can't tell you how terrified we are watching our 401k shrinking rapidly. Our daughter is semi disabled. We don't have anyone to lean on. We also know the Globalists see us as disposable and we'll be the first to go.
I firmly believe that the reason people refuse to acknowledge what’s really happening is because with acknowledgment comes a certain level of accountability and they’re not willing to be personally accountable
@@SlimShady771 yeah! Leah Reami [spelling] said No one wants to belive they have been deceived or been a fool all their life so they just keep doing it.
@@CarnivoreNana Ugh, sunk cost fallacy. As soon as you realise, change directions, you cannot get faster or more efficient than that. Nobody wants to be fooled - so don't be fooled!!
I think it is Cypher's choice, in The Matrix. He wants to go back into the matrix, and he wants to remember Nothing! Only problem is, in order to do this, he has to win first.
It’s a little difficult when your life partner does not see this, thinks I am nuts and complains about all the stuff in cold storage room. But, I turn a deaf ear, and march on to my own tune. Sometimes being hard headed is a plus.
My husband told me...!!! I'm not living in fear anymore because I know something coming up and I can't do nothing about that.. I was speechless...I'm hard head too
My husband said the same thing `you are over reacting` This has been his favorite control line for 40 years. I just keep marching ahead. He'll be thanking me soon.
I'm handicapped 70yrs old, retired optometrist tech for Navy & need to live with my daughter, cannot afford living financially on my own. I have been gardening vegatables the past 3yrs & preparing for past 6 months. Thankfully 🙏 learning from Homesteaders. Blessings.
People have no idea how hard it is to grow/raise food. When Patara says *"years"* it means YEARS. There will be mistakes...plants/animals will die. Setbacks will happen. It is a substantial learning curve, if you weren't raised to do it.
My folks were married during the depression and taught all of us to garden, raise chickens, can, dehydrate and keep at least a years worth of supplies on hand. It has never been easy, but it has become a habit. The habit is the first step.
As someone who walked away from an "intentional community" when it became apparent they were more focused on playing high-school popularity games than establishing anything meaningful and lasting... THANK YOU for calling out the idealized one-acre permaculture nonsense for what it is.
We tried offering a garden plot on our 5 acre farm for free to a nice couple from church. We tilled it up with our tractor - waited for a month - no on came to plant so we tilled it again and plant second corn. Now we know. Our land is our land to work.
I got family that did 1 worse. Someone came out and tilled up a half acre garden, my dad bought the plants and seeds for them and I planted. In a house with 6 adults not 1 person was bothered to weed and nobody even went out to pick whatever did grow. 1 person picked a handful of tomatoes one time. They also have a whole fucking mature orchard they cannot be arsed to trim, spray or even pick. It's just went to rot and they have the audacity to go to food banks
@@evil1by1 unless it comes in a microwavable dish they probably don't know what to do with it. 90% of this country would starve to death standing next to a grain elevator full of wheat or corn because they don't know what to do with it. So yeah that's basically the problem they couldn't go out and pick a "can" of green beans.
@@evil1by1 I can't even imagine. I now live in a trailer park and can only have a small "garden patch" but I am planting all I can in it lol. I would love to be able to have a larger space to where I could garden and then can what I get from it. I am a proud to be from Kentucky and my mom and grandma's taught me so much. I miss them so very much and would give anything to talk to them again and ask questions.
When our parents and grandparents went through the depression they handed down so many tips and tricks. Not about comfort but survival. Been growing and caning since I can remember. Priorities. Simplicity is coming back.
When I was young I loved listening to my Grandma speak on their life growing up. My Mom was born during the depression, she was to young to remember. I've watched my Grandma take a meal she was preparing for 3 & turn it into a Feast to feed 10 ( unexpected guest during dinner time). I listened & learned. Now at 68, I've passed onto my kids & grands the same lessons I learned. Moral of this story. My family will survive this " designed event" thanks to my Grandma & her beloved story telling❤🤗
I have a friend that will be giving birth to her 1st child, because of the state of things, I've purchased evaporated and condensed milk, so that she will have something to feed her baby, just in case she needs it. What a scarry time we live in. God bless you Patara, you are a wonderful example to all. My neighbor came over the other day, we are working on building community to help one another. No one will survive this mess alone.
Do you think she’ll try to breastfeed? I’m so thankful that my daughter in law has been able to do just that for almost 10 months now but I’m stocking up on the same things you are just in case. Also, powdered milk.
I am a senior on Social Security. Shopping for groceries is so stressful now with these prices! I'm buying much less yet paying so much more. However, when I'm shopping, no one else seems to be reflecting (at least on the outside) the stress I'm feeling. Sometime I'm almost in tears when I arrive back home.
We live in Houston TX. I shopped at my usual HEB here in town yesterday and noticed they had a limit of 2 chickens. I didn't need any. Today I went into Sam's to order a cake for a college graduation celebration and was told they were not taking any orders because Sam's was not receiving enough "supplies" to take orders from their customers. They have been limited to baking cup cakes for their bakery counter and that is all. I'm old enough to remember the gas shortages during the 1970's and the long lines. Don't wait until the last minute folks. You don't have anything to lose by being prepared.
I'm Canadian and gas here is 2.00 per litre. That's 7.56 per gallon. It is getting tough. Keep stacking food, growing your garden and putting food up. I think it's going to get much worse. Thank you Patara, you motivate me.
I left Canada for Hungary 10 months ago, its still very affordable here and there are no shortages normal life here but I still stocked up on essentials.
ouch!!!!our gas here went up yesterday to 4.00 a gallon for the lowest grade ,diesel is 5.20. This got some peoples attention but still lots of sleeping people
Lyondell Basell Oil Refinery in Houston, TX will close December, 2023. We've never had true high gas prices because refine it. THEY are closing it on purpose.
I shop for my elderly aunt, every 2 weeks. She buys the EXACT same things every two weeks. Her grocery bill was $238.63, yesterday. We went through her receipts from the last 6 months, and 6 months ago that same receipt was $145.59. So that was an increase of almost exactly $100. I tease her because she ALWAYS buys exactly the same items every week, because she keeps the same shopping list stuck to the fridge with magnets. I think she chooses to do this because she doesn't get to go shop for herself , so she doesn't "see" different things , to make a different choices. But $100 difference in 6 months!!!!! I am guessing in the next 6 months means she is going to have add ANOTHER $ 100 to her food budget!!!!!
In 6 months it will more likely be $250 higher, IF YOU CAN GET IT. MAKE HER GO WITH YOU SHOPPING AND TAKE PICTURES OF FOOD WITH PRICES. she can study them when you get home over the next month.
I'm guessing everything on her list is perishable and/or doesn't have a long shelf life but if there is anything that isn't, if you can, please get it for her asap. IF there is any food/shopping in six months, I'd be surprised. I think that if there is food, you are going to see a much higher than $100 overall price increase for the same items. Sad.
Week before last my sweet husband came home with 4 more large cans of coffee...it was on sale he said. Monday, he stopped by the local IGA on his way home from work, and picked up onions and potatoes, so I could do my thing with them...whatever I decide to do...chicken legs and thighs $1.99 lb. This morning he text me to let me know he stopped by the DG on his way to work, picked up more canned chicken, salmon, cat food, and yes...toilet paper. We've been planting...doing all we can...to prepare and save money where we can. He's building me more shelves for my 2024-2025 pantry. We got real serious, many months ago. If nothing else comes from this...we will have saved a lot of money, and will be able to feed someone who are truly not able to feed themselves. To me, the food will be worth more than money...hard to work when you're hungry. If we make the effort, and Work for it, I believe God will take care of the rest...He is able. I Thank God for my Husband...and pray for his protection, and health. Thank you Patera. God Bless you, and your family.
My husband is like yours but he picks me up trees like babe I know you wanted x so I got it me (landscaper) um ok you got 2 right. This past week I picked up 5 trees and 9 bushes and 5 vines for less then what I'm used to paying even as a landscaper.. my loving hubby went back gone..no holds gone
It is called normalcy bias. They don't wish to accept what was normal to them before can shift rapidly. The "it can't happen here" thinking kicks in when they are warned of impending changes.
At this point now even if they wanted to stock up it would be hard. prices are so high, they can barely buy what they need to make it through the week. if you didn’t prep before all this when they told us to, it’s gonna be really hard to now.
I remember my aunt telling me about the resourcefulness of her mother during the depression. Like many during that time period they used flour sacks or whatever they could to make underwear. The problem was that she couldn't get elastic. So, her mother used very thin strips of inner tube instead of elastic to hold their underwear up. How resourceful is that!!! Keep doing what you can with what you have or what you can get. 🌺🥰🙏
When my Daddy came back from Vietnam in 1968, he brought a pair of “Ho Chi Min’s” back with him (sandals made of a worn out tire). Summer shoes. Or replace/reinforce soles on shoes that can still hold a stitch
Hello Patara. my husband and I have been aware of what's happening since this administration took office in Jan. 2021. So sad that our great country is being destroyed right in front of our eyes. Yes, please buy now and plant what you can. Be well.
I own a retail business. I'm so torn. My livelihood depends on customers spending money in my store but I so want to tell them "you dont really need that, put that back and go buy you some rice"
Print out sheets with "a Well-Stocked Pantry" list. Make another one with "Emergency Backup foods", Have them available somewhere. Make a large "Rice is nice" sign. "I bean thinking about dinner". "Pass me some Pasta". "Loco for Cocoa". Use the words "stock up" in your ads.
Thank you for always mentioning the elderly, disabled, and young families! If we are retired due to the fact that we cannot work anymore, because we are physically unable to, our income is fixed. Period. I did not have kids so they could pay my bills when I got old. Or if a single mom cannot afford child care, how is she supposed to feed her babies? It is heartbreaking to me.
Thank you for all the time you take to keep us informed. I agree with you whole heartedly. I have been growing a garden for years. This year we added another 1000 sq feet. Less to mow, but not sure how it will produce. I've started all my plants this year, not one person in my family offered to help up pot, or move 25 yards of new soil. And we're in our 70's and I'm disabled. They're too busy getting their nails done, going on vacation, buying Legos. I feel like the little red hen. I keep canning and stacking, those grandchildren will be hungry and at my door. They're in for a ride awakening however, because you eat what I fix, it's good. I'm not making 3 different dinners at once. And they will eat leftovers before I fix something else. We're not running to the drive thru and I'm not restaurant!
Thank you for saying it like it is. I just got back from our weekly shopping. My family of 4, weekly budget is $50, and now it's $120 for the exact same stuff!!! Gas here in West Michigan is $4.36 per gallon. Our Aldi has no baby formula and only 2 whole chickens and a few packages of chicken legs. Butter there was $3.20 a pound. My second stop was Meijers. I too saw an elderly man who has 6 slices of ham cut at the deli counter ask to have 2 slices taken out. I was so sad for him. It should not be that problem for the elderly. It's one thing for us, who have income we can live ok on. But he should not have to choose to get 4 slices instead of 6. We should be taking care of the elderly and our veterans. They have done so much for us as a nation!!! I'd sooner go without something, than have them go without! That's my two cents! Thank you again Patera for your information and for being here for us all!!!
Flood, drought, windstorm, hail, blight, pests and wildlife no guarantees you will get one tomato or ear of corn. Thanks Patara for spreading the truth, even when it hurts.
I can't believe the things I'm doing now, I've been canning all the meat out of my deep freeze so far I've canned about 40 lbs of chicken leg quarters, I cut up 2 briskets about 20 lbs and canned it, I had breakfast sausage and canned it, I made tortilla soup double batch and canned it, all I'm hoping is I don't kill anyone with my canned food this is all new to me, thank you for the push.
Just make it a daily routine to check your seal's.Heard some were not holding.If you catch it right away you can either put in fridge and eat,or recan.
I took my daughter to Walmart for the first time in a decade. I was looking at the canning section. Found a young couple that picked up the only PC in the store. I started talking to them about canning. They are new to canning, and wanted to can unsafe items they saw on YT. I pointed them to the Ball book and suggested they do safe canning since it’s good they will be eating. I asked why now they want to can, they said it’s the food shortages. Even “normies” are seeing it.
We recently purchased a Jersey cow in milk. I looked up the gals social media who was selling the cow. She had the most beautiful dresses on with braids down past her waist as she milked in her barn that literally had a chandelier. True story. We paid our neighbor who has a trailer to go pick up our cow from this lady. He came back with our cow and said, “That woman’s who farm could fit in your barn…bad hay and no grass. Her cows are skinny and I don’t know how she’ll keep feeding them.” Optical illusion on her social media. Anybody can make this lifestyle that my family and I live everyday look romantic and idealistic. But y’all I’m in overalls with holes in them everyday and shoes that I can hose the literal shit off of when I’m done with barn chores. And I don’t have a chandelier in my house OR my barn. What keeps us choosing this life is the heritage, the community and self sustainability. If you listen to folks like Patera and other farmers you’ll hear a common theme…all of the effort is worth it. All of it. But it’s the hardest physical work, emotionally straining, learning curve of a life you can choose. But you’ll never regret it.
When I woke up to the reality of the situation and started prepping in 2020 friends and family thought I was over reacting now they’re asking me for advice. Scary times ahead
It is mind blowing to me how people don’t see everything happening. On the bright side, my mom & I canned 9 jars of strawberry jam for the first time! Can’t wait to try it with our own bread & homemade butter. 🤤
That's what a lifetime of brainwashing/indoctrination will do. They'll only wakeup if THE CREATOR pulls them out from their strong delusion/brainwashed programming. THE CREATOR BLESS
We went out for dinner for Mother's Day and normally we would not be able to get a table for anything less than a 40 minute wait. We waited for not even 10 minutes to get a table. On the way to the restaurant we were noticing not a lot of traffic on the road. Things are definitely changing and people are most certainly pulling back on their spending.
My son owns three semi trucks. He is about to shut them down as the price of fuel is killing his ability to make a living. The amount of freight is dropping while the cost of shipping is skyrocketing. An economic bomb has been dropped on our country and it is about to hit.
You’re right. Making a garden just doesn’t “happen”. I’m struggling every day; learning as I go. I’m trying to turn a small plot of clay soil into a garden. It’s hard work.
Is there a stable nearby? When we lived in an area with clay soil, we went to a local stable, and hauled away trailerful after trailerful of manure/stall bedding. Best. Stuff. Ever.
@@jeepstergal4043 Yes there is. We have a business client with 5 horses who gave us all the manure we could haul away…and more coming. I started building compost bins today😀
I have been "starting" my garden for four years now! I ALMOST have it going!!!! This is not easy, not at all. BUT the rewards will be many, many, many!!!
Was at Walmart and this older lady like myself said what are we going to do. Milk a gallon was $4.58 I told her we need to prepare for what’s coming and stock up . She said I guess so🤨 I’ll be 70 This Friday , I get up every day on the run. Dehydrating and canning what I can on SS . Working in my garden .But the last few times I been to Walmart Monday -Friday it’s been packed so maybe up here in the Ga. Mtns people are waking up .Praying for all .❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am going to the foodbank for my elderly neighbor who can no longer drive. She had tears in her eyes, when I set 3 boxes of food at her back door and told her I would go every week for her.
I can still buy quart sized boxed milks at the $1.25 store. Also stocked up on dried milk. Training my kids to not to consume milk due to cost will be hard.
Here in Germany, I was able to buy a 20kg (about 44lbs) of basmati rice for €15 ($16) in 2021. Thankfully I bought 2 because I knew prices were gonna go up. Yesterday, the same packet at the same store costs....€69,95 ($73,00). !!! Sunflower oil is being sold for up to €6 per litre (assuming you can find some). Usual price is around €1,29. And flour is still difficult to get in some stores and it has buying limits on it. Our gas (heating) costs have also gone up 50% and will be rising again come fall. And still, most people will tell you nothing is wrong 😐
@@kikitaube-hansen It's shelf-stable, last I knew. Just keep pests and damp away from it. I stored a cloth bag of basmati rice on a lower level mesh shelf for about 4 years with no problems and it tasted the same at the end of the bag as it did at the beginning. I would recommend either a plastic tub or something glass, or keep it dry somehow and then just keep it away from pantry moths and weevils.
@@kikitaube-hansen I kept one bag in a large plastic container which I ate from regularly and put the other bag into long term storage in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers 😊
My husband and I have been having these discussions. Farming and homesteading ARE acquired over years of failure and success. Don’t leave your jobs folks and romanticize homesteading. Stay where you are! You know your area and where to go. Fill your pantries with dry foods. Pressure can where u are!!! You won’t make it if you don’t. Take care of each other. This is a warning you must heed!
My mother who is in her middle 70s (and lives far away from me by choice) is seeking part-time work (a couple days per week) again to help mitigate inflation and food costs. Things are getting desperate, I think this is especially true for our elderly.
Hey lady good morning! Had a nice little “no power” fire still last night, so was able to do an inventory of our “power outage needs.” Who ARE these people who think you can feed 200+ people on an ACRE?? I’m staring at 1AC of heavily cultivated land (NOT including pasture and outbuildings) - we’ve been working on it for YEARS (as well as working on our techniques for even longer) and we are just now getting confident that we can feed our large family. Yes, I do sq ft gardening and intensive gardening as well as permaculture guilds. There are ALOT OF STARTUP COSTS. Do people realize how much $$$ it costs to build up the land to support that much fertility?? Sheesh, who are these folks?
they don't get it. and they don't get that you have to be outside every day in your garden and working hours in it if you want success. even a small garden is a lot of work.
When the restaurants and fast food places close or price themselves out of business, people are going to hit the grocery stores and start panic buying, just like during the lockdowns. We are stocking up every week. Diesel shortages are coming and supply chains are going to stop. Thanks Patara for keeping it real!
My hubby and I went to eat at Whataburger after an early doctors appt. Ordered pancakes, okay but no syrup. So we'll how about breakfast platter, ok but no biscuits! will have them tomorrow! Thank you, we went home😏
@@francesmcstay Wow, here I can buy 20 lbs of chicken and pork loin on sale to can for 50 bucks, at least 20 meals for the three of us. I know these sale prices are going up so when I see on sale if I can buy any to can, I'm thankful. 2 chain stores also have been whole chickens for around $1.50 a lb. Thank i learned how to cut up chicken 70 years ago.
Last year my dad who is 73 yrs old moved from one of the major cities out to a little rural town close to family. He is amazing to have started on raw land now has a tiny house. Has goats, and a pecan grove and has a garden started. When we talked today about how he wants to stock his little fresh water pond with fish for a food source. He said he can supply goats milk for dairy needs. we talked about what each can provide from our lands for each other. Which is something I hadnt even considered until now. Opens up a lot more possibilites
The Y2K scare convinced me to prep. We bought a few acres several miles from town, and over the years have gotten it set up. Wood heat, propane storage, a well, a garden etc. It's taken 22 years and LOTS of money, and I still have things that I wish I had accomplished but won't be able to due to lack of time and money. My heart aches for people who think things will continue on as before.
1.4 acre chick here. It took four years to get a half acre orchard/garden going. Four years. I grew in pots and I established fruit early but it took four years to get things going where I like it and I share with about 3 families. That’s it 3 and any extra goes to the other neighbors
And you share. It doesn't sound like that's your only food source, or theirs. People believe what they want to believe. I'm still trying to get variety in my fruiting trees - the fig we just bought was dead before I took it out of the package. Frustrating.
We have a big lot and have been gardening on it for more than 20 years. We could probably survive off it now, but there is a lot of food we cannot grow. We provide vegetables and some fruit for another family and donate some of our extra, but that is not the same as totally living off our plot of land. We are changing what we are growing and how we are growing things in hopes of getting more out of our land. Keeping our fingers crossed too.
As a single mom, I currently work 4 jobs every week and 2 of them everyday! Yet its not enough for my family of 4. Paying for my son’s college tuition takes a lot, however, I won’t give up and tell him to quit. Hard times are here, but strong people can make it, if we keep pushing. God Bless you Patara for always thinking of everyone💜
Your son can also work. I held 18 credit hours a semester, worked weekend nights (Friday/Saturday 11-7) at a convenience store and weekday afternoon evenings for a pizza place. It can be done. Every little bit helps.
@@kingscairn You don't have to do too much - a 4-hour shift at a close to campus sandwich shop a couple of times a week would be enough to ease some payments. I don;t think he would need to stop schooling, just work while doing so if he isn't already.
Homemade baby formula 13 Oz can of evaporated milk two and a half cups of boiled water one level teaspoon of Karo syrup this is what I raised my babies on
My mom did too besides nursing the youngest, we put a little on our oatmeal and tea also on fresh blackberries. We had no fridge in those day just a box on our porch wall, high up so animals couldn't reach.
PLEASE KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR US !! Finally someone taking the time to educate , encourage , share ideas and no sugar coating b.s. , I cant wait to listen to you everyday , you are truly one of the few highlights of my day . I LOVE your honesty and i belly laugh numerous times watching your channel! I hope you are told often from this community how much you are appreciated , you are a gem. I am way less afraid of what is happening in this world since i stumbled upon your videos and started preparing , thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me this piece of mind .
I retired after 30 years in the drugstore industry. I went in and talked to one of my past managers. They’re not getting hardly any baby formula in at all and the department was so empty. Their grocery supplier is only able to deliver about a third of what they need. They’re having calls around upcoming shortages. All over the store there were outs like I had never seen it. In my opinion, at this point, it’s going to be irrelevant how much money you have, the product is not going to be there to buy
Apparently, officially, we aren’t even in a recession 😳 and economists predict a recession for next year…next year??🤬It’s so bad now, I feel like I’m on a nightmare game show called How Low Can We Go 😖
Patara, again--spot on! Anyone who doesn't want to do the stocking up and prepping, thinking it's all "doomsday" talk--did any of y'all think (ESPECIALLY if you are believers) that God could have us doing this right now, not so much for US, but for OTHERS? If He wanted to take us out of this mess (and He could at any time, individually or collectively), at least me personally-all the items I bought for food and emergency prep, my daughter and her family can use in the future. I've already prayed about that. But again, it does come down to the individual's own life decisions they have to make for themselves and/or their families. I'm blessed to know there's quite a number of us who are like-minded, and Patara is trying to just get people to think about the reality of what is happening out there. I appreciate all you share, Patara; God bless you and your family, and keep on with your talks! I love them!😊
The gate is wide-the road is broad that leads to destruction. The gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life and there are few who find it. Matt 7:13-14
Finally a video based on reality! It took five years after we planted citrus trees here in Arizona for them to produce minimal fruit. Absolutely, these things take time. Last year a horrific wind came through and blew off all the flowers hence no fruit last year. Don’t even get me started on the challenges of trying to grow vegetables in Arizona in grow bags as we don’t have conventional soil. We would starve if we had to rely on what I produced. I buy dehydrated food and can meat just so we won’t starve! Not so easy peasy people, at least not in Arizona.
1/2 acre here. I feed one! It's taken 20 years to settle in to the point that every inch I can use is being used, including an orchard. There is no instant homestead, it takes years of learning and work that never ends. But if you never start, you don't get there. Starting to see more neighbors start gardening, hear their roosters too!
At a grocery checkout an elderly man in front of me was paying for a single bag of potatoes half with dollar bills and the rest in change. I can’t say he was struggling but it makes you wonder.
People focus on the fairy dust and unicorns to protect themselves from stress. Your video is spot on, you speak the truth, every word. People are delusional. Things are about to get real.
I’m so glad that you’re on here with the truth needed to “normies” to correct all the naïveté out there Patara. You have a gift from the Lord. You are also doing such a great job with your children. So rare to see parents speaking hard reality to their kids. No more fairy dust. It’s true love.❤️🐅
1 acre will grow enough vegtables to feed 1 person for one year IF nothing goes wrong. No meat, no staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) just vegetables. I grew up in a farming family and we pulled it off but, even we had to go to town for staples. The ONLY reason we could do it was because our family had been farming for generations and the infrasture (and generations of passed down knowledge) was in place. We raised hogs and butchered them ourselves then smoked the meat in the old log smokehouse at Grandma's. We raised chickens for eggs and meat (no fancy chicken plucker either, done by hand)and had both beef cattle and a few dairy cattle for milk and butter. Between my Daddy, Uncle and Grandma, our farms totaled almost 200 acres and cooperating between us we fed a dozen people. You have to remember, you must also grow the food for the animals. Hayfields take up a lot of acerage and so does field corn. Talk about misinformation! All these people saying to garden in pots or raised beds, on the balconey or terrace or in the backyard and you can sustain yourself are, please excuse my language, full of shit. Supplement yes, sustain, no. Patera, I am so proud you have publicly called this nonsense out!
You are correct. They estimate that to feed a family of four strictly on a home-grown diet of vegetables, you'd need 1.76 acres of land (which would yield 2,300 calories per person per day). I started my garden 2 years ago and amended soil etc. still to this day the soil is not hood enough to feed our family completely. It takes years to do that.
I canned chili for the first time yesterday. Two of them sealed, and two didn't. So I am gonna try again with the two that didn't with new seal/lid. I can do it! I thought it would be hard, but it really isn't. Thank you for your encouragement and reality. You rock!
Use a little more headspace in the jar, make sure you clean the rim well, and don't make drastic temp changes when bringing it up to temp or once you start adjusting to find the sweet spot to keep it at pressure.
Lol I canned chili for the first time last night as well. Before that I've done chicken and hamburger. It's so exciting when you hear that pop sound as the lids seal.
I redid them and they sealed. I was using "true living" brand jars from dollar general and the seals are thin. It looked like a few of them are also bent, so I had to go through the box to find ones I could use. Probably not buying this brand again. 😂
Good morning Patara i hope you had AWESOME weekend. My husband and i celebrated our 65th wedding ANNIVERSARY and my 83rd birthday was monday.i will be planting bell peppers today. Watch you everyday.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, to be in the real world. Many, many people have been living through a filter of Social Media or other entertainment. Don't discount the very high level of people that have mental illnesses. It's so sad the level of fraud that has been perpetrated against us.
I planted 28 tomato plants in the garden......birds pinched the tops out of 13. I put out the aluminum pie pans to fly in the breeze yesterday! On a lighter note, we ate our first bunch of greens from the garden for dinner last night. Yum. Kale, turnip and mustard greens.
I keep hearing your voice “now is not the time to slow down.” I’m doing those extra things planting, canning and gathering every single day because “now is not the time to slow down” thank you for the motivation.
So true. Bought bologna at Walmart a few days back. Price listed as a dollar, checked it twice. At checkout it was $4.09. This same product has been a standard price of $2.00 for ages. Went ahead and got it, but not again. As for gardening; the hardest physical work I've done in decades. Sometimes the out come can just be tears. But you have to keep trying.
keep going Joyce 🌼 I use rubbing alcohol for my soreness, put it on liberally before bed helps while you rest then again in the a.m. & keep a hankie in your pocket 💞
@@thelmaavila3685 This is true, but you have to be willing to call them on it and wait while they send someone back to check. There's pressure put on people who do this.
@@thelmaavila3685A month ago I picked up canning lids at Walmart an hour from my home because I had been having trouble finding them. They were marked $2.18 but rang up $2.97. I called the attendant over and told her. I was informed that they didn't honor the shelf prices anymore because prices changed so fast the stockers couldn't keep up. I told her to remove from my bill and found some at the local Mennonites a week later.
Yes ma'am, most everyone is in a uproar! Baby formula for my great granddaughter is impossible to find. I put back several things today at Walmart! I'm pissed! I'm so pissed! Gas is skyrocketing! Food skyrocketing! But no formula! This old grandma knows how to make formula. If I have too I will be making it. Now they are saying making it homemade could be bad! Well my children are grown and well. My granddaughter will eat! I bought 5 cans of evaporated milk today! If it needs to be used for her to eat, by golly it will..I will be picking up more tomorrow. First I was scared, not now. IM PISSED! Mama Bear is roaring! Lies, Lies, Lies!!!! Sickening!! We don't even want to talk about property taxes! Theives!! Ok...I'll hush now!!!!
You are so right, Patara. I've noticed an obvious absence of people shopping at WM. I wonder if they think they are going to wait until prices come back down? Not ever going to happen. What is going to happen is: what seems like high prices today, will seem like a bargain next week. My husband and I can only afford to buy for us so anyone who thinks we are buying for them, needs their head examined. They have the same opportunity and access to information that I have. Decisions have consequences! I've heard people say they just want to live a normal life. They are the ones who will starve. Hard times are just around the corner and there will be a whole bunch of people who are not prepared and may show up at your door. Decide, now, what your response will be when they ask for food. If you have 2 months of food stored, 2 more mouths to feed make that 1 month. They won't ask just once, either. I've stopped trying to warn people. If they don't choose to listen, that's on them. Remember, Noah took 100 years to build the ark and everyone ridiculed him. When the time came to close the door, only Noah's family was on board. Growing a garden is hard, dirty work. Sometimes the plants grow, sometimes the bugs eat them. I'm the only one I see working in the sweltering heat.
I’m old, 68, and go grocery shopping every day just to get out of the house. I only buy a few items at a time so I can monitor the scanners and make sure the pricing is right. When I buy more stuff shopping it’s amazing how many times things are mispriced or not put into the shopping bags.
Yes Patara we are IN a recession! We need to become more and more active in growing and putting up food. Having wisdom in these days of dwindling common sense, is Powerful! My electric is over $100 a month in Ohio and believe me when I say, I do not watch TV, I wash clothes once a week which is 2 loads...my heat stayed at 62 all winter, my stove is gas and so is my dryer!...its horrible! I am 70 and and trying my best to grow what I can. Seed saving is really important this year as well! Keep spreading the truth! 🗣
We live in an all electric mobile home,our electric bill runs about 300.00 a month. Its horrible. My cookstove quit on me over a year ago,I just cook with my instant pot and crockpot now and we still cant get the electric to go down. Everyone complains how high the electric is with this coop. I dont know what to do anymore.
We were doing really well filling our pantry and stocking up months ago. Now our stock up has slowed a lot. Things are getting too expensive and we can't afford what we used to. It's really starting to affect our family a lot. Praying for some relief soon.
I grew up with parents that moved us from the city to the middle of nowhere. We bought 2 1/2 acres and we began a small homestead. I almost died more times than I can count and I learned that raising animals and food is NO JOKE AND NOT MAGIC ! It is hard back breaking , heartbreaking, devastated Dreams and also sometimes the very best thing in the whole world ! I still miss that land. I still miss my bridge that finally brought me home on rainy days when before I had to Wade through a rushing wash. I will not say that there isn’t something romantic about it , however the reality snaps you back into the real world daily. Keep saying it Patera ! Much love from Az
Ford worker here. Look forward to your videos on first break! 😀 Garden in. High tunnel and grow bags in pools. Corn plot. Basement pantry stocked.. Solar generator. "How your FV works" rofl You go girl! People are in denial.
Some of us are listening and stocking everything! My Grandkids are thinking I've lost my mind but, they know that everything in that pantry, basement, every cabinet in the house, is there to take care of them. I've been trying to get plenty of animal feed on hand for my pigs and chickens. Lol I've even got 100lbs if rabbit pellets and don't even have my rabbits yet. (My Grandkids may be right). I'm just trying to get my protein sources lined up.
i spent 5 years building soil in my last home. 400 yds wood chips added to a 2/3 acre lot, and only after 5 years did the soils start to produce anything useful at all. it took years and thousands of dollars to collect trees, berries, asparagus and the like and none of them were really at producing age.
During the Great Depression my MIL's family had a garden the size of an acre, PLUS skim milk, corn meal and pork. That is what it took to feed a family with 3 children, and they were farmers and knew what they were doing.
This is going to be worse than the great depression. Much worse. Many people don't know the prophecies of the last days. The Bible just barely scratches the surface
Went to Aldi today - prices were so high I got indigestion. Yup came home with heartburn. Bought a gob of items that were cheaper than Walmart. I have the luxury to shop every week where about 80 of the items are for the pantry. Been stocking up for 2 years. My husband finally TODAY said he was proud of me. The crap already hit the fan and is about to get smeared all over.
Thank for preparedness. You may just bless someone. I had so much Similac I was able to give a new mother six cans today. You can barely find it now. Fortunately, my son is on whole milk and we didn’t need it.
Thank you for keeping it real!! Gardening is hard along with taking care of your animals. Getting the soil prepared is expensive too. Fortunately we have been trying different crops over the past several years to see what will flourish in our area. So many in my community aren’t doing anything to prepare.
My wife says: People are smart and are capable of creativity and inventiveness. They haven't needed to use these qualities just to survive or thrive. However, when this system breaks down, (and it's already happening), they will probably start using their potential. For example, during the lockdown, there was a shortage of flour and yeast because we were baking our own bread instead of conveniently buying it. I expect to see more intelligent and frugal living as time goes on. Still, this depression will hurt a lot of us. Some people may even cause food riots like in Venezuela when they are totally relying on the govt. to provide for them.
Amen, Sister! You are speaking some truth. 1 season of trying to garden for the first time was a big wake up call for me! Still learning, but I’ve come a long way. So thankful God put it in my heart 4 years ago while I still had time to learn. People are in for a rude awakening very soon.
First off, this is all being done intensionally. I am 58 years old & I have been working for a long time. I had to turn down agood paying job offer yesterday due to the price of gas because it would have cost me at $125.00 week just to get to work & home. Instead, I took a work at home job offer which pays much less. I just have to consider the options which are, my vehicle is 17 years -old & in perfect condition, I won't have to buy a lot of clothes or shoes for work, I too can eat lunch at home & it won't take me two hours to get there & back so, to me, it's worth making much less to spend much less, plus the time & convenience. If gas is $4.00 per gallon in my state which is Mississippi, I can only imagine what is in other states.
Lies appear to be the currency of the country at this time. My wife and are the elderly you spoke of. However, there was one trick I found out accidentally. We have wild blackberries growing around our fence. Last winter I was washing all the puppy poop over to the fence line, and low and behold this spring those blackberries produced bigger and better than ever. I have a new respect for puppy poop fertilizer. LOL
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My husband just asked me to make him a sack lunch before he goes to town. I asked him why, since I know he usually goes to his favorite burger fast food when he goes to town. His reply was " its to expensive go there and I'm not paying those prices. I'm going to stop and buy canned food with what I would have paid for the burger"
Can I get a HALLELUJAH
I MARRIED A GOOD MAN!!!
Wow! That is phenomenal!
Hallelujah and amen!
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I went to Wendy's a few days ago. I don't go often, my favorite sandwich has increased another 50 cents, I've decided that it was my last one.
Hallelujah!!!!!❤️
Was in a store a few days ago - I am 62 years old and I was buying some water and a older man I would say he was around 85 was pushing his cart and walking slowly , he had a few bags of rice , dry beans , flour and a few other small things in his cart., he had no candy , chips , soda , processed foods , he kindly said to me make sure to buy some dry goods and water . He had such a kind look in his eyes , but a worried look also , I told him that the dry goods aisle was my next place to go , We exchanged a Smile and a Take Care .. The thing is he was dressed like my Dad would dress and looked kinda like my Dad . My Dad passed away 31 years ago .
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Wow tears, Secret angels!!!😇🧡💛💜💙❤🖤🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤
I've been seeing older gentlemen doing more bulk shopping here in Tallahassee. Trying to stay ahead if inflation and shortages
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Maybe an angelic being😊
Noah got ready. Didn't matter what others thought. He did what he was told.
I will have to read that again. Was it an internal pressing on / conviction in his heart?
6 months ago my fiancé and I left our friends, family, jobs, and high-rise condos in Southern California behind to purchase a small plot of land in Oklahoma. This is our homesteading Chapter 1 but so far have goats for milk, pigs for meat, chickens for eggs, and have already delivered multiple babies on the farm! Grew my first few snap peas this week from seedlings and ate something from my own garden for the first time in my life! Again, this is our Chapter 1 and boyyyy has life changed in 6 months (not to mention ice, snow, tornadoes, and adjusting to small town rural life). Happy we woke up 👊🏼 thank you for all of your awesome videos!
You are doing great!!!
That’s amazing wishing you the best!
Congratulations sweetie💖
Welcome to Oklahoma! Very best wishes on your amazing endeavor. You'll love it, the hard work is all worth it.
Darl'n...keep us posted!!
2 days ago in a farm store, a woman was cussing farmers for telling people that fertilizer in areas is in short supply and the price of fertilizer is extremely high. She said she didn't know why farmers were complaining, because she was at Menards and they had a whole pallet full , of course I laughed and said LADY farmers buy fertilizer buy the semi truck load, not buy the 10 pound or 40 pound bags. Amazing that the public do not know what it takes to put food on their tables
Most have never had to think about that. Just go to store, get what you need.
Last night at my fav sandwich shop the waitress told me it’s been slow. Her fridge broke got 2 kids. I returned to the shop and gave her eggs to take home that don’t need refrigeration
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Beautiful soul 🥰
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Because we have not been able to sleep and when sleeping we consistently had anxiety dreams, we have shut it down. I'm almost 70, my husband is 70, and still working so we can buy what we need for me to can, dehydrate, grow, and other needs, the bare necessities. We decided to put on the blinders and no longer watch or listen to anyone and focus on what next to do to reach our goals. We listen to Patera, that is about it. We have been sleeping deep all this past week, thank God. Shut out all the noise, all the mouthpieces, pray, listen to that still small voice and march on, saints.
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Yes, AMEN.
Great advice!
Watching an elderly lady searching the canned cat food broke my heart the other day. I know it's just a cat, which in comparison to the poor mom's searching for formula, is not as critical. However, to some people, that cat is their one source of companionship or joy! Sad, sad times.
That IS sad....
I praying she wasn't buying it for herself to eat... 😥
People seem to have forgot where the lucky rabbits foot came from. It came from the depression because when people bought a rabbit to eat they started insisting that one foot be left on unskinned. That way they knew they were getting a rabbit and not a cat because skin them both and you can't hardly tell them apart.😲 Truth. Just saying.
There was a time when there was no cat food. Cats and dogs were fed on kitchen scraps or big dogs on left overs and bones from the butchers shop.
@@TermiteVideo Maybe she doesn't have any scraps left over!
There are 2 types of people, those who trust the government and those who THINK.
For Mother's Day I received some very nice gifts from my son's and their family. But my one daughter in law gets it. She got me canning jars ! Bless her heart !
My Silk gave me canning jars for mother's day too! Yea!
So glad to hear that...👍😀
Bless her heart is a backhanded insult
Leave that at Bless Her. You may not be where anybody says, Bless their Heart but it has the wrong meaning for your daughter-in-law in a lot of places. As I know it, it implies a person is very foolish or worse.
I wish I would get canning jars for this Mother’s Day,!!
What I’m hearing now is that it’s not just a fertilizer problem, but also, farmers are not able to find/get a hold of tractor parts. This is dang scary.
It's true. Even car repair shops are having issues. My friend's transmission was shot and it took 3 months to get the part in to fix it.
Agree that even if I can find the equipment parts they are outrageously over priced.
The shipping charges on heavy parts are through the roof also.
The best option I have found is to search the farm equipment salvage yards.
Yes, very scary!
Stop being scared. Frightened people are easily controlled and that's why our governments have been using psychological warfare techniques on us. Grow a backbone and get your house in order. Time is running out.
I also saw yesterday a brief story about ransomware attacks on the software that runs big farming equipment and tractors.
I just called my 85 year old mama and asked if she wanted me to take her to Aldi. She said no she has enough meat for the week! It’s Wednesday, which means she has 3-4 days of meat!! I’m picking her up in 30 minutes.
I have a hard time getting my 85 year old momma to get extra stuff. Told her to get a Sams list ready.
@@ChickenTender57 we just have to keep trying
This may sound bad....I am glad my parents have passed on before this started. May they rest in peace.
Yes The ones born in the 30s lived through the Depression but they were too young to understand the depression so yeah my dad‘s 87 I totally understand and I agree I love my mama and I miss her but I’m glad she doesn’t have to go through this mess.
She's a fortunate woman.
We've been married 40 years and worked very hard to be able to retire. I can't tell you how terrified we are watching our 401k shrinking rapidly. Our daughter is semi disabled. We don't have anyone to lean on. We also know the Globalists see us as disposable and we'll be the first to go.
I firmly believe that the reason people refuse to acknowledge what’s really happening is because with acknowledgment comes a certain level of accountability and they’re not willing to be personally accountable
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@@SlimShady771 yeah! Leah Reami [spelling] said No one wants to belive they have been deceived or been a fool all their life so they just keep doing it.
@@CarnivoreNana Ugh, sunk cost fallacy.
As soon as you realise, change directions,
you cannot get faster or more efficient than that.
Nobody wants to be fooled - so don't be fooled!!
I think it is Cypher's choice, in The Matrix.
He wants to go back into the matrix,
and he wants to remember Nothing!
Only problem is, in order to do this, he has to win first.
I think it's more fear. Think of all the things you have to wake up to...it's terrifying, especially for those who have no faith.
It’s a little difficult when your life partner does not see this, thinks I am nuts and complains about all the stuff in cold storage room. But, I turn a deaf ear, and march on to my own tune. Sometimes being hard headed is a plus.
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My husband told me...!!! I'm not living in fear anymore because I know something coming up and I can't do nothing about that..
I was speechless...I'm hard head too
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My husband said the same thing `you are over reacting` This has been his favorite control line for 40 years. I just keep marching ahead. He'll be thanking me soon.
He will thank you later.
I'm handicapped 70yrs old, retired optometrist tech for Navy & need to live with my daughter, cannot afford living financially on my own. I have been gardening vegatables the past 3yrs & preparing for past 6 months. Thankfully 🙏 learning from Homesteaders. Blessings.
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Thank you for your service! Go Navy!
Thank you for your service to our country
People have no idea how hard it is to grow/raise food. When Patara says *"years"* it means YEARS. There will be mistakes...plants/animals will die. Setbacks will happen. It is a substantial learning curve, if you weren't raised to do it.
Word!!! We have been at this for over a decade and still learning simple things!!!
There are no expert gardeners. All of us are still learning, and each year brings new surprises - even on the same land.
I got sweet pepper plants on the balcony living the pampered life, AND IT IS KILLING 'EM the utter ingrates.
Truth it's well hard.
And no two growing seasons are the same weather, weeds, or pest.
My folks were married during the depression and taught all of us to garden, raise chickens, can, dehydrate and keep at least a years worth of supplies on hand. It has never been easy, but it has become a habit. The habit is the first step.
As someone who walked away from an "intentional community" when it became apparent they were more focused on playing high-school popularity games than establishing anything meaningful and lasting... THANK YOU for calling out the idealized one-acre permaculture nonsense for what it is.
Amen!
We tried offering a garden plot on our 5 acre farm for free to a nice couple from church. We tilled it up with our tractor - waited for a month - no on came to plant so we tilled it again and plant second corn. Now we know. Our land is our land to work.
I got family that did 1 worse. Someone came out and tilled up a half acre garden, my dad bought the plants and seeds for them and I planted. In a house with 6 adults not 1 person was bothered to weed and nobody even went out to pick whatever did grow. 1 person picked a handful of tomatoes one time. They also have a whole fucking mature orchard they cannot be arsed to trim, spray or even pick. It's just went to rot and they have the audacity to go to food banks
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I will extend Aid to people who tried and failed. But I'm not helping anybody who didn't even try.
@@evil1by1 unless it comes in a microwavable dish they probably don't know what to do with it. 90% of this country would starve to death standing next to a grain elevator full of wheat or corn because they don't know what to do with it. So yeah that's basically the problem they couldn't go out and pick a "can" of green beans.
@@evil1by1 I can't even imagine. I now live in a trailer park and can only have a small "garden patch" but I am planting all I can in it lol. I would love to be able to have a larger space to where I could garden and then can what I get from it. I am a proud to be from Kentucky and my mom and grandma's taught me so much. I miss them so very much and would give anything to talk to them again and ask questions.
When our parents and grandparents went through the depression they handed down so many tips and tricks. Not about comfort but survival. Been growing and caning since I can remember. Priorities. Simplicity is coming back.
When I was young I loved listening to my Grandma speak on their life growing up. My Mom was born during the depression, she was to young to remember.
I've watched my Grandma take a meal she was preparing for 3 & turn it into a Feast to feed 10 ( unexpected guest during dinner time).
I listened & learned. Now at 68, I've passed onto my kids & grands the same lessons I learned.
Moral of this story. My family will survive this " designed event" thanks to my Grandma & her beloved story telling❤🤗
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I have a friend that will be giving birth to her 1st child, because of the state of things, I've purchased evaporated and condensed milk, so that she will have something to feed her baby, just in case she needs it. What a scarry time we live in. God bless you Patara, you are a wonderful example to all. My neighbor came over the other day, we are working on building community to help one another. No one will survive this mess alone.
Do you think she’ll try to breastfeed? I’m so thankful that my daughter in law has been able to do just that for almost 10 months now but I’m stocking up on the same things you are just in case. Also, powdered milk.
Suggestion, consider buying canned goats milk as well. For some babies that's all they can tolerate.
Add karo syrup too for constipation
Thank you for doing that for the new mom!!
She will have that peace of mind Mary - NICE!
I am a senior on Social Security. Shopping for groceries is so stressful now with these prices! I'm buying much less yet paying so much more. However, when I'm shopping, no one else seems to be reflecting (at least on the outside) the stress I'm feeling. Sometime I'm almost in tears when I arrive back home.
You are not alone.
We live in Houston TX. I shopped at my usual HEB here in town yesterday and noticed they had a limit of 2 chickens. I didn't need any. Today I went into Sam's to order a cake for a college graduation celebration and was told they were not taking any orders because Sam's was not receiving enough "supplies" to take orders from their customers. They have been limited to baking cup cakes for their bakery counter and that is all. I'm old enough to remember the gas shortages during the 1970's and the long lines. Don't wait until the last minute folks. You don't have anything to lose by being prepared.
I'm Canadian and gas here is 2.00 per litre. That's 7.56 per gallon. It is getting tough. Keep stacking food, growing your garden and putting food up. I think it's going to get much worse. Thank you Patara, you motivate me.
I left Canada for Hungary 10 months ago, its still very affordable here and there are no shortages normal life here but I still stocked up on essentials.
@@annainbudapest1261 I wish I could have done the same. Trudeau has “ camps” planned for those of us he doesn’t like.
ouch!!!!our gas here went up yesterday to 4.00 a gallon for the lowest grade ,diesel is 5.20. This got some peoples attention but still lots of sleeping people
Lyondell Basell Oil Refinery in Houston, TX will close December, 2023. We've never had true high gas prices because refine it. THEY are closing it on purpose.
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I shop for my elderly aunt, every 2 weeks. She buys the EXACT same things every two weeks.
Her grocery bill was $238.63, yesterday. We went through her receipts from the last 6 months, and 6 months ago that same receipt was $145.59.
So that was an increase of almost exactly $100.
I tease her because she ALWAYS buys exactly the same items every week, because she keeps the same shopping list stuck to the fridge with magnets. I think she chooses to do this because she doesn't get to go shop for herself , so she doesn't "see" different things , to make a different choices.
But $100 difference in 6 months!!!!!
I am guessing in the next 6 months means she is going to have add ANOTHER $ 100 to her food budget!!!!!
Wow! Just Wow! I see it, too.
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In 6 months it will more likely be $250 higher, IF YOU CAN GET IT.
MAKE HER GO WITH YOU SHOPPING AND TAKE PICTURES OF FOOD WITH PRICES. she can study them when you get home over the next month.
This is so sad. Many elderly folks don’t have an extra $100 to spare.
I'm guessing everything on her list is perishable and/or doesn't have a long shelf life but if there is anything that isn't, if you can, please get it for her asap. IF there is any food/shopping in six months, I'd be surprised. I think that if there is food, you are going to see a much higher than $100 overall price increase for the same items. Sad.
Week before last my sweet husband came home with 4 more large cans of coffee...it was on sale he said. Monday, he stopped by the local IGA on his way home from work, and picked up onions and potatoes, so I could do my thing with them...whatever I decide to do...chicken legs and thighs $1.99 lb.
This morning he text me to let me know he stopped by the DG on his way to work, picked up more canned chicken, salmon, cat food, and yes...toilet paper.
We've been planting...doing all we can...to prepare and save money where we can.
He's building me more shelves for my 2024-2025 pantry.
We got real serious, many months ago.
If nothing else comes from this...we will have saved a lot of money, and will be able to feed someone who are truly not able to feed themselves.
To me, the food will be worth more than money...hard to work when you're hungry.
If we make the effort, and Work for it, I believe God will take care of the rest...He is able.
I Thank God for my Husband...and pray for his protection, and health.
Thank you Patera. God Bless you, and your family.
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Beautiful
Amen❤
My husband is like yours but he picks me up trees like babe I know you wanted x so I got it me (landscaper) um ok you got 2 right.
This past week I picked up 5 trees and 9 bushes and 5 vines for less then what I'm used to paying even as a landscaper.. my loving hubby went back gone..no holds gone
@@brokenotbroken25 I understand...my husband is a landscaper too.
I can’t understand why people don’t stock up due to increase alone , if they don’t believe shortages . It’s crazy !
Cuz they see the products being stock back on shelves.
It is called normalcy bias. They don't wish to accept what was normal to them before can shift rapidly. The "it can't happen here" thinking kicks in when they are warned of impending changes.
At this point now even if they wanted to stock up it would be hard. prices are so high, they can barely buy what they need to make it through the week. if you didn’t prep before all this when they told us to, it’s gonna be really hard to now.
That's what I say too. I don't understand. I always tell myself well I better buy it now plus multiples because it's not going to get and cheaper.
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I remember my aunt telling me about the resourcefulness of her mother during the depression. Like many during that time period they used flour sacks or whatever they could to make underwear. The problem was that she couldn't get elastic. So, her mother used very thin strips of inner tube instead of elastic to hold their underwear up. How resourceful is that!!! Keep doing what you can with what you have or what you can get. 🌺🥰🙏
Underwear had buttons before elastic came along.
When my Daddy came back from Vietnam in 1968, he brought a pair of “Ho Chi Min’s” back with him (sandals made of a worn out tire). Summer shoes. Or replace/reinforce soles on shoes that can still hold a stitch
Cathey Dee my mama too. They sewed buttons on their underwear to hold them up.
@@leeannwicker937 really
@@patriciafrancis5663 shoe goo works wonders on tennis shoes or boots that kids wear holes in
Hello Patara. my husband and I have been aware of what's happening since this administration took office in Jan. 2021. So sad that our great country is being destroyed right in front of our eyes. Yes, please buy now and plant what you can. Be well.
I own a retail business. I'm so torn. My livelihood depends on customers spending money in my store but I so want to tell them "you dont really need that, put that back and go buy you some rice"
That’s because you have a great heart!! God bless you and your business💜
Maybe say get you one of these and then go buy you some rice. 🤣. I used to worry they're going to think I was nuts. Now I talk and don't care as much.
Because you are a caring person.
I am dismayed when I see a shopping cart full of soda pop and junk food!
Print out sheets with "a Well-Stocked Pantry" list. Make another one with "Emergency Backup foods", Have them available somewhere. Make a large "Rice is nice" sign. "I bean thinking about dinner". "Pass me some Pasta". "Loco for Cocoa". Use the words "stock up" in your ads.
Thank you for always mentioning the elderly, disabled, and young families! If we are retired due to the fact that we cannot work anymore, because we are physically unable to, our income is fixed. Period. I did not have kids so they could pay my bills when I got old. Or if a single mom cannot afford child care, how is she supposed to feed her babies? It is heartbreaking to me.
Thank you for all the time you take to keep us informed. I agree with you whole heartedly. I have been growing a garden for years. This year we added another 1000 sq feet. Less to mow, but not sure how it will produce. I've started all my plants this year, not one person in my family offered to help up pot, or move 25 yards of new soil. And we're in our 70's and I'm disabled. They're too busy getting their nails done, going on vacation, buying Legos. I feel like the little red hen. I keep canning and stacking, those grandchildren will be hungry and at my door. They're in for a ride awakening however, because you eat what I fix, it's good. I'm not making 3 different dinners at once. And they will eat leftovers before I fix something else. We're not running to the drive thru and I'm not restaurant!
Agree!!! I just told my grands I am not a restaurant!!!!
Thank you for saying it like it is. I just got back from our weekly shopping. My family of 4, weekly budget is $50, and now it's $120 for the exact same stuff!!! Gas here in West Michigan is $4.36 per gallon. Our Aldi has no baby formula and only 2 whole chickens and a few packages of chicken legs. Butter there was $3.20 a pound. My second stop was Meijers. I too saw an elderly man who has 6 slices of ham cut at the deli counter ask to have 2 slices taken out. I was so sad for him. It should not be that problem for the elderly. It's one thing for us, who have income we can live ok on. But he should not have to choose to get 4 slices instead of 6. We should be taking care of the elderly and our veterans. They have done so much for us as a nation!!! I'd sooner go without something, than have them go without! That's my two cents! Thank you again Patera for your information and for being here for us all!!!
I totally agree!
Butter is $8 in Canada. Steak is$25 for 2. So expensive, I wait for sales & buy & stock up then.
Flood, drought, windstorm, hail, blight, pests and wildlife no guarantees you will get one tomato or ear of corn.
Thanks Patara for spreading the truth, even when it hurts.
I can't believe the things I'm doing now, I've been canning all the meat out of my deep freeze so far I've canned about 40 lbs of chicken leg quarters, I cut up 2 briskets about 20 lbs and canned it, I had breakfast sausage and canned it, I made tortilla soup double batch and canned it, all I'm hoping is I don't kill anyone with my canned food this is all new to me, thank you for the push.
Great job!
Just make it a daily routine to check your seal's.Heard some were not holding.If you catch it right away you can either put in fridge and eat,or recan.
I took my daughter to Walmart for the first time in a decade. I was looking at the canning section. Found a young couple that picked up the only PC in the store. I started talking to them about canning. They are new to canning, and wanted to can unsafe items they saw on YT. I pointed them to the Ball book and suggested they do safe canning since it’s good they will be eating. I asked why now they want to can, they said it’s the food shortages. Even “normies” are seeing it.
PC?
Pressure canner is what she means Valerie
@@valerier4308 pressure canner
I’m a normie, I see it!
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We recently purchased a Jersey cow in milk. I looked up the gals social media who was selling the cow. She had the most beautiful dresses on with braids down past her waist as she milked in her barn that literally had a chandelier. True story.
We paid our neighbor who has a trailer to go pick up our cow from this lady. He came back with our cow and said, “That woman’s who farm could fit in your barn…bad hay and no grass. Her cows are skinny and I don’t know how she’ll keep feeding them.” Optical illusion on her social media.
Anybody can make this lifestyle that my family and I live everyday look romantic and idealistic. But y’all I’m in overalls with holes in them everyday and shoes that I can hose the literal shit off of when I’m done with barn chores. And I don’t have a chandelier in my house OR my barn.
What keeps us choosing this life is the heritage, the community and self sustainability.
If you listen to folks like Patera and other farmers you’ll hear a common theme…all of the effort is worth it. All of it. But it’s the hardest physical work, emotionally straining, learning curve of a life you can choose. But you’ll never regret it.
That’s so sad to hear about her neglecting the cows. I assume that’s why she’s downsizing.
Yes! I’m out here sweating like a whore in church every day out here working in my garden and taking care of my chickens!
When I woke up to the reality of the situation and started prepping in 2020 friends and family thought I was over reacting now they’re asking me for advice. Scary times ahead
It is mind blowing to me how people don’t see everything happening. On the bright side, my mom & I canned 9 jars of strawberry jam for the first time! Can’t wait to try it with our own bread & homemade butter. 🤤
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There are those who voted for this and can't admit they were Wrong. To acknowledge it admits wrongdoing.
That's what a lifetime of brainwashing/indoctrination will do. They'll only wakeup if THE CREATOR pulls them out from their strong delusion/brainwashed programming.
THE CREATOR BLESS
@@autumnsmith3585 Amen. this is the ultimate accountability, getting what they asked for.
It's mind blowing that so many are unable to see, even if you show them.
We went out for dinner for Mother's Day and normally we would not be able to get a table for anything less than a 40 minute wait. We waited for not even 10 minutes to get a table. On the way to the restaurant we were noticing not a lot of traffic on the road. Things are definitely changing and people are most certainly pulling back on their spending.
Oh wow!
We never go out to eat. Haven't in a few years.
I wonder, all the driving, where are they going?
Same situation over here in Belgium
wow lol wish it was that way where I lived. it's super busy 24-7 and I'm in the midwest
Patara and coffee! Now that’s a great way to launch me into a productive day!
That's what I'm doing also.
I couldn't agree more!☕🐔🐣🌱
Same here! Her encouragement is priceless before getting going doing "the things"! Have a wonderfully productive and beautiful day!! 🙌🏼😊🌞
Amen, same! Cheers ☕️
Me too!
Thank you for mentioning the seniors. People don't understand how difficult it can be for them. Food banks I hear are running really low.
My son owns three semi trucks. He is about to shut them down as the price of fuel is killing his ability to make a living. The amount of freight is dropping while the cost of shipping is skyrocketing. An economic bomb has been dropped on our country and it is about to hit.
You’re right. Making a garden just doesn’t “happen”. I’m struggling every day; learning as I go. I’m trying to turn a small plot of clay soil into a garden. It’s hard work.
See if you can pick a bag of gibson up .At ruel king or wal mart? that helps break down the clay. I have clay also.
I live in hot and sunny Florida! So hard to grow anything
Especially in the summer.
Is there a stable nearby? When we lived in an area with clay soil, we went to a local stable, and hauled away trailerful after trailerful of manure/stall bedding.
Best. Stuff. Ever.
@@jeepstergal4043 Yes there is. We have a business client with 5 horses who gave us all the manure we could haul away…and more coming. I started building compost bins today😀
I have been "starting" my garden for four years now! I ALMOST have it going!!!! This is not easy, not at all. BUT the rewards will be many, many, many!!!
I started gardening almost 20 years ago thinking I was going to save a lot of money but those were the most expensive tomatoes anyone has ever eaten.
Yes!!
But if you save the seeds then those tomatoes are cents
Yes. Mistakes are costly. You learn as you go. Learn as you grow. Learn from your mistakes now so next year maybe you'll make fewer costly mistakes.
Home grown produce tastes so much better than store bought.
Brüll/ German word for laughing. Youre right!
Was at Walmart and this older lady like myself said what are we going to do. Milk a gallon was $4.58 I told her we need to prepare for what’s coming and stock up . She said I guess so🤨 I’ll be 70 This Friday , I get up every day on the run. Dehydrating and canning what I can on SS . Working in my garden .But the last few times I been to Walmart Monday -Friday it’s been packed so maybe up here in the Ga. Mtns people are waking up .Praying for all .❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
I bought dry milk for a few dollars at Walmart, but the shelf didn't have a lot to choose from. That may be an option for some. 💜
I am going to the foodbank for my elderly neighbor who can no longer drive. She had tears in her eyes, when I set 3 boxes of food at her back door and told her I would go every week for her.
I can still buy quart sized boxed milks at the $1.25 store. Also stocked up on dried milk. Training my kids to not to consume milk due to cost will be hard.
Love your GA mountains to camp in! We're in TN, just north of ya.
Whole milk at the store I shop at is $5.28/gallon!!
Here in Germany, I was able to buy a 20kg (about 44lbs) of basmati rice for €15 ($16) in 2021. Thankfully I bought 2 because I knew prices were gonna go up. Yesterday, the same packet at the same store costs....€69,95 ($73,00). !!! Sunflower oil is being sold for up to €6 per litre (assuming you can find some). Usual price is around €1,29. And flour is still difficult to get in some stores and it has buying limits on it. Our gas (heating) costs have also gone up 50% and will be rising again come fall. And still, most people will tell you nothing is wrong 😐
👍🙏 People better wake up!
Hi Tess, how do you preseve 20 kg of rice?
@@kikitaube-hansen It's shelf-stable, last I knew. Just keep pests and damp away from it.
I stored a cloth bag of basmati rice on a lower level mesh shelf for about 4 years with no problems and it tasted the same at the end of the bag as it did at the beginning. I would recommend either a plastic tub or something glass, or keep it dry somehow and then just keep it away from pantry moths and weevils.
@@kikitaube-hansen I kept one bag in a large plastic container which I ate from regularly and put the other bag into long term storage in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers 😊
$73.00!!!!??? WOW! Here in Arizona USA I just paid $19.99 for Basmati rice at Cosco. I store it in containers with oxygen obsorbers.
My son is a shop manager (also welder/machinist) for a big farmer in our county. He is having to fabricate parts to keep the tractors running.
My husband and I have been having these discussions. Farming and homesteading ARE acquired over years of failure and success. Don’t leave your jobs folks and romanticize homesteading. Stay where you are! You know your area and where to go. Fill your pantries with dry foods. Pressure can where u are!!! You won’t make it if you don’t. Take care of each other. This is a warning you must heed!
My mother who is in her middle 70s (and lives far away from me by choice) is seeking part-time work (a couple days per week) again to help mitigate inflation and food costs. Things are getting desperate, I think this is especially true for our elderly.
I'm so sad for elderly people who have to worry about going to work again... everything is so much harder to do as you get older. 🥺
Hey lady good morning! Had a nice little “no power” fire still last night, so was able to do an inventory of our “power outage needs.”
Who ARE these people who think you can feed 200+ people on an ACRE?? I’m staring at 1AC of heavily cultivated land (NOT including pasture and outbuildings) - we’ve been working on it for YEARS (as well as working on our techniques for even longer) and we are just now getting confident that we can feed our large family. Yes, I do sq ft gardening and intensive gardening as well as permaculture guilds. There are ALOT OF STARTUP COSTS. Do people realize how much $$$ it costs to build up the land to support that much fertility??
Sheesh, who are these folks?
they don't get it. and they don't get that you have to be outside every day in your garden and working hours in it if you want success. even a small garden is a lot of work.
I don't think the know how small one acre is! All they know is it's bigger than their suburb back yard.
When the restaurants and fast food places close or price themselves out of business, people are going to hit the grocery stores and start panic buying, just like during the lockdowns. We are stocking up every week. Diesel shortages are coming and supply chains are going to stop. Thanks Patara for keeping it real!
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Yes. And if people aren't eating out, then restaraunts close, people lose jobs and it keeps escalating...
My hubby and I went to eat at Whataburger after an early doctors appt. Ordered pancakes, okay but no syrup. So we'll how about breakfast platter, ok but no biscuits! will have them tomorrow! Thank you, we went home😏
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Wow, here I can buy 20 lbs of chicken and pork loin on sale to can for 50 bucks, at least 20 meals for the three of us.
I know these sale prices are going up so when I see on sale if I can buy any to can, I'm thankful.
2 chain stores also have been whole chickens for around $1.50 a lb. Thank i learned how to cut up chicken 70 years ago.
Last year my dad who is 73 yrs old moved from one of the major cities out to a little rural town close to family. He is amazing to have started on raw land now has a tiny house. Has goats, and a pecan grove and has a garden started. When we talked today about how he wants to stock his little fresh water pond with fish for a food source. He said he can supply goats milk for dairy needs. we talked about what each can provide from our lands for each other. Which is something I hadnt even considered until now. Opens up a lot more possibilites
The Y2K scare convinced me to prep. We bought a few acres several miles from town, and over the years have gotten it set up. Wood heat, propane storage, a well, a garden etc. It's taken 22 years and LOTS of money, and I still have things that I wish I had accomplished but won't be able to due to lack of time and money. My heart aches for people who think things will continue on as before.
1.4 acre chick here. It took four years to get a half acre orchard/garden going. Four years. I grew in pots and I established fruit early but it took four years to get things going where I like it and I share with about 3 families. That’s it 3 and any extra goes to the other neighbors
I'm on year 2, and still have a long way to go.
And you share. It doesn't sound like that's your only food source, or theirs. People believe what they want to believe.
I'm still trying to get variety in my fruiting trees - the fig we just bought was dead before I took it out of the package. Frustrating.
We have a big lot and have been gardening on it for more than 20 years. We could probably survive off it now, but there is a lot of food we cannot grow. We provide vegetables and some fruit for another family and donate some of our extra, but that is not the same as totally living off our plot of land. We are changing what we are growing and how we are growing things in hopes of getting more out of our land. Keeping our fingers crossed too.
As a single mom, I currently work 4 jobs every week and 2 of them everyday! Yet its not enough for my family of 4. Paying for my son’s college tuition takes a lot, however, I won’t give up and tell him to quit. Hard times are here, but strong people can make it, if we keep pushing. God Bless you Patara for always thinking of everyone💜
Did that with my children in the 80th until 2000th, too. You´ll win. Go on strong Lady.
Your son can also work. I held 18 credit hours a semester, worked weekend nights (Friday/Saturday 11-7) at a convenience store and weekday afternoon evenings for a pizza place. It can be done. Every little bit helps.
@@kikitaube-hansen I’m sure your kids appreciate everything you’ve done for them. Thank you mama💜
@@kingscairn You don't have to do too much - a 4-hour shift at a close to campus sandwich shop a couple of times a week would be enough to ease some payments. I don;t think he would need to stop schooling, just work while doing so if he isn't already.
Homemade baby formula 13 Oz can of evaporated milk two and a half cups of boiled water one level teaspoon of Karo syrup this is what I raised my babies on
That's what my Mom did!!
I think people are listening to this our canned milk section has been low the last two times I was in the store.
My mom did too besides nursing the youngest, we put a little on our oatmeal and tea also on fresh blackberries. We had no fridge in those day just a box on our porch wall, high up so animals couldn't reach.
Don't forget to add the vitamins :)
Add Vitasol (Vitamin Solution) drop once a day.
PLEASE KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR US !! Finally someone taking the time to educate , encourage , share ideas and no sugar coating b.s. ,
I cant wait to listen to you everyday , you are truly one of the few highlights of my day . I LOVE your honesty and i belly laugh numerous times watching your channel! I hope you are told often from this community how much you are appreciated , you are a gem. I am way less afraid of what is happening in this world since i stumbled upon your videos and started preparing , thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving me this piece of mind .
Here here! Well said.
I retired after 30 years in the drugstore industry. I went in and talked to one of my past managers. They’re not getting hardly any baby formula in at all and the department was so empty.
Their grocery supplier is only able to deliver about a third of what they need.
They’re having calls around upcoming shortages.
All over the store there were outs like I had never seen it. In my opinion, at this point, it’s going to be irrelevant how much money you have, the product is not going to be there to buy
Scary for moms who are unable to nurse!
Apparently, officially, we aren’t even in a recession 😳 and economists predict a recession for next year…next year??🤬It’s so bad now, I feel like I’m on a nightmare game show called How Low Can We Go 😖
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They are lying to us. They have been lying to us for a long time.
FJB
Patara, again--spot on! Anyone who doesn't want to do the stocking up and prepping, thinking it's all "doomsday" talk--did any of y'all think (ESPECIALLY if you are believers) that God could have us doing this right now, not so much for US, but for OTHERS? If He wanted to take us out of this mess (and He could at any time, individually or collectively), at least me personally-all the items I bought for food and emergency prep, my daughter and her family can use in the future. I've already prayed about that. But again, it does come down to the individual's own life decisions they have to make for themselves and/or their families. I'm blessed to know there's quite a number of us who are like-minded, and Patara is trying to just get people to think about the reality of what is happening out there. I appreciate all you share, Patara; God bless you and your family, and keep on with your talks! I love them!😊
The gate is wide-the road is broad that leads to destruction. The gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life and there are few who find it. Matt 7:13-14
Even Noah and Joseph did their part.
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Amen 💕
Yes, I have thought this too.
Finally a video based on reality! It took five years after we planted citrus trees here in Arizona for them to produce minimal fruit. Absolutely, these things take time. Last year a horrific wind came through and blew off all the flowers hence no fruit last year. Don’t even get me started on the challenges of trying to grow vegetables in Arizona in grow bags as we don’t have conventional soil. We would starve if we had to rely on what I produced. I buy dehydrated food and can meat just so we won’t starve! Not so easy peasy people, at least not in Arizona.
I'm south of Tucson and trying to grow here is very challenging and discouraging but I persist year after year. Every bite I can harvest is a victory.
We hear ya! Trying to grow anything in a desert is about impossible.
Ms. Patara I got my first potatoes growing!! IM SO EXCITED!!
1/2 acre here. I feed one! It's taken 20 years to settle in to the point that every inch I can use is being used, including an orchard. There is no instant homestead, it takes years of learning and work that never ends. But if you never start, you don't get there. Starting to see more neighbors start gardening, hear their roosters too!
At a grocery checkout an elderly man in front of me was paying for a single bag of potatoes half with dollar bills and the rest in change. I can’t say he was struggling but it makes you wonder.
People focus on the fairy dust and unicorns to protect themselves from stress. Your video is spot on, you speak the truth, every word. People are delusional. Things are about to get real.
I agree. Reality is too scary for some people so they distract themselves, which is not practical or helpful.
True - unfortunately the reality is not going away and they are going to be slapped very hard in the face with it soon.
Hey! To be fair, some people are also looking for a magic wand 🧚♀️😂
@@happycook6737 LOL, truth!
I’m so glad that you’re on here with the truth needed to “normies” to correct all the naïveté out there Patara. You have a gift from the Lord. You are also doing such a great job with your children. So rare to see parents speaking hard reality to their kids. No more fairy dust. It’s true love.❤️🐅
I did that with my children. And they are a blessing to theire people and community. (And to me :)
@SlimShady 76 Ha! So true. But maybe a few more may still be saved from nolmacy.
Over 50%of people now live in apartments. How are they going to deal with life?
1 acre will grow enough vegtables to feed 1 person for one year IF nothing goes wrong. No meat, no staples (salt, sugar, flour, etc) just vegetables. I grew up in a farming family and we pulled it off but, even we had to go to town for staples. The ONLY reason we could do it was because our family had been farming for generations and the infrasture (and generations of passed down knowledge) was in place. We raised hogs and butchered them ourselves then smoked the meat in the old log smokehouse at Grandma's. We raised chickens for eggs and meat (no fancy chicken plucker either, done by hand)and had both beef cattle and a few dairy cattle for milk and butter. Between my Daddy, Uncle and Grandma, our farms totaled almost 200 acres and cooperating between us we fed a dozen people. You have to remember, you must also grow the food for the animals. Hayfields take up a lot of acerage and so does field corn. Talk about misinformation! All these people saying to garden in pots or raised beds, on the balconey or terrace or in the backyard and you can sustain yourself are, please excuse my language, full of shit. Supplement yes, sustain, no. Patera, I am so proud you have publicly called this nonsense out!
You are correct. They estimate that to feed a family of four strictly on a home-grown diet of vegetables, you'd need 1.76 acres of land (which would yield 2,300 calories per person per day).
I started my garden 2 years ago and amended soil etc. still to this day the soil is not hood enough to feed our family completely. It takes years to do that.
I canned chili for the first time yesterday. Two of them sealed, and two didn't. So I am gonna try again with the two that didn't with new seal/lid. I can do it! I thought it would be hard, but it really isn't. Thank you for your encouragement and reality. You rock!
Maybe oil residue on the rim of the jar? Wishing you luck on your next batch.
Use a little more headspace in the jar, make sure you clean the rim well, and don't make drastic temp changes when bringing it up to temp or once you start adjusting to find the sweet spot to keep it at pressure.
Lol I canned chili for the first time last night as well. Before that I've done chicken and hamburger. It's so exciting when you hear that pop sound as the lids seal.
Are you pressure canning your foods that have meats?
I redid them and they sealed. I was using "true living" brand jars from dollar general and the seals are thin. It looked like a few of them are also bent, so I had to go through the box to find ones I could use. Probably not buying this brand again. 😂
Good morning Patara i hope you had AWESOME weekend. My husband and i celebrated our 65th wedding ANNIVERSARY and my 83rd birthday was monday.i will be planting bell peppers today. Watch you everyday.
Congratulations on 65 years! What an accomplishment! Happy 83rd as well.
Congratulations,And Happy BELATED BIRTHDAY!!💐🎈🎂
@@HoneyBee-lj7ig THANK YOU!!!
@@hearthecrysofthecrusaders3357 THANK YOU!!!!!
Straight talker from the heart…. “Calling a Spade a Spade” love your UA-cam info & no bill crap honest views on what’s currently happening.. 💕💕
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, to be in the real world. Many, many people have been living through a filter of Social Media or other entertainment. Don't discount the very high level of people that have mental illnesses. It's so sad the level of fraud that has been perpetrated against us.
I planted 28 tomato plants in the garden......birds pinched the tops out of 13. I put out the aluminum pie pans to fly in the breeze yesterday! On a lighter note, we ate our first bunch of greens from the garden for dinner last night. Yum. Kale, turnip and mustard greens.
I keep hearing your voice “now is not the time to slow down.” I’m doing those extra things planting, canning and gathering every single day because “now is not the time to slow down” thank you for the motivation.
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So true. Bought bologna at Walmart a few days back. Price listed as a dollar, checked it twice. At checkout it was $4.09. This same product has been a standard price of $2.00 for ages. Went ahead and got it, but not again. As for gardening; the hardest physical work I've done in decades. Sometimes the out come can just be tears. But you have to keep trying.
keep going Joyce 🌼 I use rubbing alcohol for my soreness, put it on liberally before bed helps while you rest then again in the a.m. & keep a hankie in your pocket 💞
Walmart's bait and switch is illegal. Stores are supposed to honor the advertised price.
@@thelmaavila3685 This is true, but you have to be willing to call them on it and wait while they send someone back to check. There's pressure put on people who do this.
@@thelmaavila3685A month ago I picked up canning lids at Walmart an hour from my home because I had been having trouble finding them. They were marked $2.18 but rang up $2.97. I called the attendant over and told her. I was informed that they didn't honor the shelf prices anymore because prices changed so fast the stockers couldn't keep up. I told her to remove from my bill and found some at the local Mennonites a week later.
@@jillmartin6878 It’s illegal. I always tell them I’ll be happy to discuss the issue with our Secretary of State.
Yes ma'am, most everyone is in a uproar! Baby formula for my great granddaughter is impossible to find. I put back several things today at Walmart! I'm pissed! I'm so pissed! Gas is skyrocketing! Food skyrocketing! But no formula! This old grandma knows how to make formula. If I have too I will be making it. Now they are saying making it homemade could be bad! Well my children are grown and well. My granddaughter will eat! I bought 5 cans of evaporated milk today! If it needs to be used for her to eat, by golly it will..I will be picking up more tomorrow. First I was scared, not now. IM PISSED! Mama Bear is roaring! Lies, Lies, Lies!!!! Sickening!! We don't even want to talk about property taxes! Theives!! Ok...I'll hush now!!!!
❤️❤️❤️ great grandma here. I understand. Sheep gone! Lions are coming out!
Preach!!!! We grands will do anything for our grandbabies!!
You are so right, Patara. I've noticed an obvious absence of people shopping at WM. I wonder if they think they are going to wait until prices come back down? Not ever going to happen. What is going to happen is: what seems like high prices today, will seem like a bargain next week. My husband and I can only afford to buy for us so anyone who thinks we are buying for them, needs their head examined. They have the same opportunity and access to information that I have. Decisions have consequences! I've heard people say they just want to live a normal life. They are the ones who will starve. Hard times are just around the corner and there will be a whole bunch of people who are not prepared and may show up at your door. Decide, now, what your response will be when they ask for food. If you have 2 months of food stored, 2 more mouths to feed make that 1 month. They won't ask just once, either. I've stopped trying to warn people. If they don't choose to listen, that's on them. Remember, Noah took 100 years to build the ark and everyone ridiculed him. When the time came to close the door, only Noah's family was on board. Growing a garden is hard, dirty work. Sometimes the plants grow, sometimes the bugs eat them. I'm the only one I see working in the sweltering heat.
9 years to get my dirt to come back to life and I keep hearing how you just buy acreage and you will succeed!
There are none so blind as those that refuse to see. It is easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled.
So true!
I’m old, 68, and go grocery shopping every day just to get out of the house. I only buy a few items at a time so I can monitor the scanners and make sure the pricing is right. When I buy more stuff shopping it’s amazing how many times things are mispriced or not put into the shopping bags.
I take pictures of the prices marked on the shelves. The price on kitchen trash bags were $1 more than listed on the shelf.
Yes Patara we are IN a recession! We need to become more and more active in growing and putting up food. Having wisdom in these days of dwindling common sense, is Powerful! My electric is over $100 a month in Ohio and believe me when I say, I do not watch TV, I wash clothes once a week which is 2 loads...my heat stayed at 62 all winter, my stove is gas and so is my dryer!...its horrible! I am 70 and and trying my best to grow what I can. Seed saving is really important this year as well! Keep spreading the truth! 🗣
We live in an all electric mobile home,our electric bill runs about 300.00 a month. Its horrible. My cookstove quit on me over a year ago,I just cook with my instant pot and crockpot now and we still cant get the electric to go down. Everyone complains how high the electric is with this coop. I dont know what to do anymore.
Hi Donita, I´m in with you. With 62 in winter _ halleluja. Respect.
We were doing really well filling our pantry and stocking up months ago. Now our stock up has slowed a lot. Things are getting too expensive and we can't afford what we used to. It's really starting to affect our family a lot. Praying for some relief soon.
Amen to that. Adding my prayers to yours. 🙏
I grew up with parents that moved us from the city to the middle of nowhere. We bought 2 1/2 acres and we began a small homestead. I almost died more times than I can count and I learned that raising animals and food is NO JOKE AND NOT MAGIC ! It is hard back breaking , heartbreaking, devastated Dreams and also sometimes the very best thing in the whole world ! I still miss that land. I still miss my bridge that finally brought me home on rainy days when before I had to Wade through a rushing wash.
I will not say that there isn’t something romantic about it , however the reality snaps you back into the real world daily. Keep saying it Patera ! Much love from Az
Ford worker here. Look forward to your videos on first break! 😀 Garden in. High tunnel and grow bags in pools. Corn plot. Basement pantry stocked.. Solar generator. "How your FV works" rofl You go girl! People are in denial.
Some of us are listening and stocking everything! My Grandkids are thinking I've lost my mind but, they know that everything in that pantry, basement, every cabinet in the house, is there to take care of them. I've been trying to get plenty of animal feed on hand for my pigs and chickens. Lol I've even got 100lbs if rabbit pellets and don't even have my rabbits yet. (My Grandkids may be right). I'm just trying to get my protein sources lined up.
Thank you for telling it like it is about the homesteading lies circulating. My husband and I have been talking about this for a long while.
i spent 5 years building soil in my last home. 400 yds wood chips added to a 2/3 acre lot, and only after 5 years did the soils start to produce anything useful at all. it took years and thousands of dollars to collect trees, berries, asparagus and the like and none of them were really at producing age.
I clean houses, and seeing their pantry terrifies me. The majority don't have a week's worth of food.
You’re right
I feel this way, if they say the US won’T have food shortages then you better be prepping like nobody’s business! You’ll never know till it’s to late!
During the Great Depression my MIL's family had a garden the size of an acre, PLUS skim milk, corn meal and pork. That is what it took to feed a family with 3 children, and they were farmers and knew what they were doing.
This is going to be worse than the great depression. Much worse. Many people don't know the prophecies of the last days. The Bible just barely scratches the surface
Went to Aldi today - prices were so high I got indigestion. Yup came home with heartburn. Bought a gob of items that were cheaper than Walmart. I have the luxury to shop every week where about 80 of the items are for the pantry. Been stocking up for 2 years. My husband finally TODAY said he was proud of me. The crap already hit the fan and is about to get smeared all over.
I meant 80% of the items
You're a wise woman Patera. Thank you for all your wisdom and candor. It's a truth that needs to be heard and heeded.
Thank for preparedness. You may just bless someone. I had so much Similac I was able to give a new mother six cans today. You can barely find it now. Fortunately, my son is on whole milk and we didn’t need it.
Thank you for keeping it real!! Gardening is hard along with taking care of your animals. Getting the soil prepared is expensive too. Fortunately we have been trying different crops over the past several years to see what will flourish in our area. So many in my community aren’t doing anything to prepare.
My wife says: People are smart and are capable of creativity and inventiveness. They haven't needed to use these qualities just to survive or thrive. However, when this system breaks down, (and it's already happening), they will probably start using their potential. For example, during the lockdown, there was a shortage of flour and yeast because we were baking our own bread instead of conveniently buying it. I expect to see more intelligent and frugal living as time goes on. Still, this depression will hurt a lot of us. Some people may even cause food riots like in Venezuela when they are totally relying on the govt. to provide for them.
Don't get on the bus😲
Amen, Sister! You are speaking some truth. 1 season of trying to garden for the first time was a big wake up call for me! Still learning, but I’ve come a long way. So thankful God put it in my heart 4 years ago while I still had time to learn. People are in for a rude awakening very soon.
First off, this is all being done intensionally. I am 58 years old & I have been working for a long time. I had to turn down agood paying job offer yesterday due to the price of gas because it would have cost me at $125.00 week just to get to work & home. Instead, I took a work at home job offer which pays much less. I just have to consider the options which are, my vehicle is 17 years -old & in perfect condition, I won't have to buy a lot of clothes or shoes for work, I too can eat lunch at home & it won't take me two hours to get there & back so, to me, it's worth making much less to spend much less, plus the time & convenience. If gas is $4.00 per gallon in my state which is Mississippi, I can only imagine what is in other states.
California, down the road, it’s $5.95 - $6.05 gal.
4.79 here in southeast Wisconsin
It's almost $5.00/gallon in Texas I believe. Depends on where you live.
Lies appear to be the currency of the country at this time. My wife and are the elderly you spoke of. However, there was one trick I found out accidentally. We have wild blackberries growing around our fence. Last winter I was washing all the puppy poop over to the fence line, and low and behold this spring those blackberries produced bigger and better than ever. I have a new respect for puppy poop fertilizer. LOL