I purposely chose the cutest eggplant for the photo shoot, there were many vying for the opportunity.
It's good to hear your accelerating your gardening and think it'll pay dividends. I watched a show on Netflix last night called, Buy More and it's alarming at the rate at which we fuck up this planet...it'll come to a head at some point and those with more "human" skills will appreciate that they took the time to acquire them. I also think that skills or produce for a barter system will be a valuable thing for a person to have. I don't know when this will all play out, maybe not my lifetime, but play out it will.
I've not yet seen that show, but can imagine what it contains. By the sheer amount of garbage I see people put out for the trash collection, it won't be long till we're living on islands of garbage. In our local barter/trade group many have joined but then fall off the rolls, and I just don't get it. There are just a few actively participating.
I don't know when it will all play out either, but it's ramping up quickly. Between the governments, weather woes and warfare it could be sooner rather than later. Best to be prepared.
It's pretty confronting, the waste and disgusting behaviours such as companies taking goods for "recycling" that go straight to groundfill and Amazon putting brand new products under ground (landfill) because it's cheaper than selling off or disposing in other ways, the fact that most "recyclable" packaging isn't recyclable at all...just a few examples.
The fall is coming T, it's on the way for sure, and we are racing eagerly forward to it one needless purchase at a time.
So true....and it doesn't help that it is getting more and more difficult to buy quality products...ones built to last. Easier and cheaper to buy low quality imports, but the cost year over year amounts to alot of money and fodder for those landfills. They do the recycling here as well, and yep, it goes to the landfill, for the most part.
Society doesn't want quality it seems, just more, and more and more, and more and more and more and more and more, and more and more and more...You get the idea. So products are designed to last for a pre-deternkned time and then...landfill. people are delusional including those who bury their head in the sand and say things like, we're on the right track.