My little victory garden has yielded a nice bounty. Sugar snap peas and tomatoes are ready now, and the blueberry bushes aren’t yet picked clean. I took a bunch of the tomatoes over to a friend of mine to have then canned. Canning is going in in earnest now. We’ll get some fall crops and the greenhouses will help out a bit during the winter, but we’ve got to can what we have now. The less that we dive into the food rations the better. Last winter went deep into the negative with the food store, but we’re chalking that up to unpreparedness and don’t expect it to happen this year. The great thing about the victory gardens is that they’re one of the few things that are ours, meaning unrationed. You keep what you grow (minus the credits for the canning effort), and you can trade what you don’t want. I think eventually the capitalist spirit will return here in full force, but I agree that it’s not the best idea just yet.
On another note, I had to refill my scrip for indocin the other day. I’ve been taking one a day instead of the two a day that were recommended. The inventory says I have eight years on two a day, but I’m not taking any chances. If any of it is damaged, or it needs to be prescribed to someone else, that cuts into that eight years. We added a few bottles on a mule run to a CVS a few months back, but there’s no guarantee that this stuff stays fresh. Sky Fortress is supposed to looking into a location for a pharmaceutical plant, but I think something like that is way off given our current state.