Lumber up another 4% today already.

No signs of abating . . .

Have you considered:
- earth bags
- aircrete
- cob
- ?

The last episode of the podcast with Christian Westbrook is free so check it out if you haven't and share.
https://rokfin.com/post/39454/

Whitney Webb has dropped our interview publicly:

Whitney Webb's Unlimited Hangout Podcast, episode 14 [April 28, 2021]: In this episode, Whitney is joined by Christian Westbrook of the Ice Age Farmer broadcast to discuss the underreported yet massive supply chain crisis and how the Davos elite plan to capitalize on that chaos to usher in AI-driven supply chains, especially as it relates agriculture.

https://youtu.be/lF9xYZXzv4g

Find Whitney Webb's exceptional work here: https://linktr.ee/whitneywebb

Japan bans export of domestic seeds/seedlings — stated reason is to protect local producers. Effect is further locking down of global food supply:

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/05/3bc70196a0c5-japan-bans-removal-of-prized-agricultural-seeds-seedlings-abroad.html

EU Endorses Beetle Larvae for Human Consumption, Touts ‘Environmental Benefits’

Representatives from the European Union’s 27 member states have approved Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae, also known as mealworms, as “innovative” food and suitable for human consumption.

[ IAF: Yeah. "Innovative." You've heard this term for other "innovative foods" — along with "replacement agriculture." ]

The EU’s executive arm explained that dried mealworms could be eaten “whole” in the “form of snacks” or as an ingredient in food. Agence France-Presse also suggested on Tuesday that they could be used in protein shakes or to make burgers.

The Commission went on to tout how eating bugs had “environmental benefits” and contributed to “sustainable diets”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/05/06/eu-endorses-beetle-larvae-for-human-consumption-touts-environmental-benefits/

I spoke recently with Mike Adams, who asked "How do you summarize the current food situation?" -- it's a big question! Here is my response, encapsulating in 7min:

- Food/grains shortage
- Supply chain disruptions
- Inflation

SHARE this to anyone who needs to better understand the turbulence ahead.

Full interview here: https://www.brighteon.com/24070697-39f7-464d-81e7-cec49f4a89e6

#1 FAQ: Where is a good place to be during #GrandSolarMinimum?

My answer: First, check out these maps of how the climate changed during previous grand minima:

http://wiki.iceagefarmer.com/wiki/Strategic_Relocation:_Maps

Use these as starting point to inform a more holistic process: there are a number of considerations beyond basic geography/climate that need to be considered. My recommendation is to run through an exercise like this as a tool to organize your thoughts:

- Make a list of what is important to you: proximity to community/family. growing more crops vs. pasture for animals. etc.

- Craft a risk analysis for each area considered: volcanic/seismic, water extremes (drought/flood), frosts ruining growing season, large population nearby, resource availability.

- Rank the risks: How likely are the risks? How tolerant of each are you? ( i.e., if you are chiefly raising animals, maybe a late frost doesn't matter. if you are skilled builder with earthbags, an earthquake may not be end of world.).

Now we have a risk matrix. Instead of just picking of a place and then enumerating the reasons it would be a bad choice (we are all likely quite good at that by now, but it gets us nowhere), now you are starting to work to match your own risk preferences against the candidate areas, and understanding WHY an area is a good balance for you/your family.

(because nothing is perfect)

Open questions: What has worked for you? Why are you where you are? How is it working? How confident are you?

Federal court upholds Impossible Foods' GMO heme to make veggie burgers "bleed", despite lack of any long-term health studies.

Unsurprising, yes, given the public (and government) has already moved on to injecting themselves with OTHER unapproved GMOs:

"Impossible Foods derives its heme from the roots of soybean plants. It claims the compound is central to the meaty, umami flavor profile of its meat substitute products – as well as giving its Impossible Burger the characteristic ability to ‘bleed’ like rare-cooked beef."

https://agfundernews.com/impossible-foods-prevails-in-us-federal-court-complaint-over-heme-safety.html

JBS (world's BIGGEST meat company) buys plant protein company Vivera for $409m - because, remember, it's Game Over for the meat industry:

Founded in the early 1990s and based in the small east Netherlands town of Holten, it offers a range of products including chicken-style nuggets and goujons, sausages, and ground ‘meat’. These are made from protein that has been derived from soybean, wheat, rice, and chickpea, among other sources.

“This acquisition is an important step to strengthen our global plant-based protein platform. Vivera will give JBS a stronghold in the plant-based sector, with technological knowledge and capacity for innovation,” said JBS global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni.

#WarOnMeat

https://agfundernews.com/vivera-acquired-by-jbs-for-plant-based-protein-409m.html

Scientists Create 'Flat-Pack' Pasta That Morphs Into Shape When Cooked

In our efforts to rein in our overwhelming burden upon Earth's living biosphere, every little thing adds up. Even the shape of pasta (of all things!) can make a difference in our consumption of resources.

Which is why scientists have now created flat-packed pasta that's more efficient to package and transport, but can then unfurl into shape once it's in the pot.

Food packaging is a huge contributor to landfills. In the US for instance, food packaging along with food waste makes up almost half of all solid consumer waste. But scientists estimate that flat-packed noodles could reduce pasta packaging by up to 60 percent, by eliminating all the air space included in different shaped pastas, like tubes of penne and spirals of fusilli, when packed.

Inspired by space and resource-saving flat-packed furniture, digital fabrication researcher Ye Tao from Zhejiang University and colleagues created noodles that can change shape.

Building on past experiments, where grooves stamped into flat pasta caused the noodles to spontaneously morph into 3D-shapes when submerged in water, the researchers used computer and physical tests to work out how to control these unnerving transformations.

"The groove side expands less than the smooth side, leading the pasta to morph into shape," explained Syracuse University biomechanical engineer Teng Zhang.

And the morphing pasta puts on quite a show - twisting and writhing along strategically placed grooves like an unfurling flower or wiggling worm, as it swells with water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC0Zl9T5FlM&t=22s

Marjory Wildcraft is hosting a Free Grow System Summit May 21-23!

The lineup looks like it should be a fun group: Marjory, Justin Rhodes, Paul Gautschi, David the Good, and more.

Check it out (FREE):

https://growsystemsummit.com/?oid=110&affid=139

Biden administration to announce plan to protect 30% of U.S. lands and water

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is outlining a plan to sharply increase conservation of public lands and waters over the next decade. A report to be issued Thursday recommends a series of steps to achieve a nationwide goal to conserve 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/05/06/biden-administration-to-announce-plan-to-protect-30-of-u-s-lands-and-water/

Family-owned restaurants around the U.S. are struggling to keep a steady supply of chicken tenders, wings and breasts on their customers' plates due to a nationwide poultry shortage.
Consumer demand for the bird has surged amid the coronavirus, with Americans turning to comfort foods and buying more chicken sandwiches from fast-food restaurants like KFC, McDonald's and Popeyes. As millions of Americans sat idle during stay-at-home orders last year and ordered chicken meals from local restaurants, poultry producers have been unable to keep pace.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/restaurants-face-nationwide-chicken-shortage/ar-BB1gm28c

Beef not far behind:

It's almost like building a fragile, globalized economy was a bad idea . . .

The Chip Shortage Keeps Getting Worse. Why Can’t We Just Make More?

Shortages of semiconductors are battering automakers and tech giants, raising alarm bells from Washington to Brussels to Beijing. The crunch has raised a fundamental question for policymakers, customers and investors: Why can’t we just make more chips?

There is both a simple answer and a complicated one. The simple version is that making chips is incredibly difficult—and getting tougher.

“It’s not rocket science—it’s much more difficult,” goes one of the industry’s inside jokes.

The more complicated answer is that it takes years to build semiconductor fabrication facilities and billions of dollars—and even then the economics are so brutal that you can lose out if your manufacturing expertise is a fraction behind the competition. Former Intel Corp. boss Craig Barrett called his company’s microprocessors the most complicated devices ever made by man.

This is why countries face such difficulty in achieving semiconductor self sufficiency. China has called chip independence a top national priority in its latest five-year plan, while U.S. President Joe Biden has vowed to build a secure American supply chain by reviving domestic manufacturing. Even the European Union is mulling measures to make its own chips. But success is anything but assured.

Manufacturing a chip typically takes more than three months and involves giant factories, dust-free rooms, multi-million-dollar machines, molten tin and lasers. The end goal is to transform wafers of silicon—an element extracted from plain sand—into a network of billions of tiny switches called transistors that form the basis of the circuitry that will eventually give a phone, computer, car, washing machine or satellite crucial capabilities.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/