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It sure would. But people aren't being asked to do that. Now they're being asked to "get out there and go shopping!"

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normallysilent, I wish i could give you a thousand positive comment ratings for that comment. My family always raised their own gardens, fresh everything, even down to the fruit, and my Dad used to grind corn for cornmeal too. Great food.

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What percentage of people in the area of the story, have a single square space of greenery to grow anything?

How many have a cellar ?

The U.S. ( and the rest of the world ) is a more urban population that it was in WW2.

When you live in an apartment on the 10th floor of a city building, you can only shop cheaper.

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You're totally missing the point. The reason so much food isn't being produced is for the bio-fuel mandates. As to small gardens, there's nothing wrong with that but you can't expect that to solve the world hunger problem created by the tree hugging ethanol crowd.

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"Its nice going to the cellar instead of the store."

Absolutely. There's something to be said for planting a victory garden. It's especially gratifying to rip up all that useless grass from friends' yards when you help them to plant a garden. It's probably one of the easiest and most rewarding things you can do to help save the planet. On top of that the food tastes 10x better. Tomatos actually taste like tomatos.

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normallysilent-

i thought you'd like these lyrics-

"Well, let the wild winter wind bellow and blow.

I'm as warm as a July tomato.

There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin.

Supper's ready, everybody come on in.

Taste a little of the summer.

Grandma put it all in jars.

Well, there's a root cellar, fruit cellar, down below.

Watch your head now, and down we go.

Oh, she got magic in her, you know what I mean.

She puts the sun and rain in with her beans.

What with the snow and the economy and everything,

I think I'll just stay down here and eat until spring.

She cans the pickles, sweet and dill,

And the songs of the whip-or-will,

And the morning dew and the evening moon,

I really gotta go down and see her soon.

'Cause the canned goods that I buy at the store

Ain't got the summer in 'em anymore.

You bet, Grandma, as sure as you're born,

I'll take some more potatoes and a thunderstorm."

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"It would help if everyone did like they were asked to do back during WW2. Plant those gardens. Provide for yourself a little. Help take the load off the system."

normallysilent, what you speak of is HERESY! Heresy, I say! Heresy, slander and lies!! NO ONE must provide for themselves!! There is a government to do that for us! NO ONE must assume ANY personal responsibility - - it is fully up to our government to provide for us, to tell us what to do, to solve every problem that comes down the pike!! I know this, because Barack Obama TOLD me so!! He says we must rely on HOPE! HOPE and his able leadership is all we need to solve all the world's problems!! We citizens needn't lift a finger - Barack will take care of EVERYTHING for us!! He will broker world peace, solve the oil crisis, provide jobs for everyone, reduce the world population, and free donuts for everyone on Fridays!! I tell you, HE is the ANSWER. All we have to do is vote, and wait....

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