Even before we were locked down, all of the stores that sell food in my area started running out of canned meats, beans, rice, canned foods, etc, not just toilet paper, it was eerie. Even the produce sections were looking bare, oddly. Then we started shopping for plants and seeds for our garden, and they were sparse as well. A nursery ow…
Even before we were locked down, all of the stores that sell food in my area started running out of canned meats, beans, rice, canned foods, etc, not just toilet paper, it was eerie. Even the produce sections were looking bare, oddly. Then we started shopping for plants and seeds for our garden, and they were sparse as well. A nursery owner told us he had a sales day midweek that rivaled his biggest weekends. All the seed companies I had subscribed to their email lists sent out emails stating they were backlogged and wouldn't be able to fill orders for a while. All of this was back in March. We decided last summer that this year we would be foregoing a vacation to put in a garden and raise more animals by raising lambs and turkeys again, adding to our laying hens, and trying out some meat chickens for the first time. When we were at the farm stores, we soon discovered others had the same idea, some buying laying chicks for the first time. I say all this because I am encouraged by the fact that many in my area and I'm sure others felt things weren't right, and prepared a little or a little more!
Even before we were locked down, all of the stores that sell food in my area started running out of canned meats, beans, rice, canned foods, etc, not just toilet paper, it was eerie. Even the produce sections were looking bare, oddly. Then we started shopping for plants and seeds for our garden, and they were sparse as well. A nursery owner told us he had a sales day midweek that rivaled his biggest weekends. All the seed companies I had subscribed to their email lists sent out emails stating they were backlogged and wouldn't be able to fill orders for a while. All of this was back in March. We decided last summer that this year we would be foregoing a vacation to put in a garden and raise more animals by raising lambs and turkeys again, adding to our laying hens, and trying out some meat chickens for the first time. When we were at the farm stores, we soon discovered others had the same idea, some buying laying chicks for the first time. I say all this because I am encouraged by the fact that many in my area and I'm sure others felt things weren't right, and prepared a little or a little more!