What Can You Depend Upon?
My digital indoor/outdoor thermometer says it is 41 F outside predawn. The low overnight was 36 F. An old fashioned thermometer in the greenhouse says it is 33 F. It is June 9th. It is very difficult to depend on the survival of my food source for the summer. I began the challenge of gardening at 8250 feet altitude because I did not like iceberg lettuce and that was all the local store carried. I persist in gardening because of e coli and other persistent problems in food sources. In the United States you could once count on safe food. I grew up certain about water sources and safe food. If you went to Mexico or Cozumel you should not drink the water but here regardless of where you were in the country you could drink the water. Then there is Flint, Michigan. And soon a lot of other places because Trump repealed the clean water act. And clean air. In the mountain west we only had to worry about where the US stored its nuclear waste. Too much of it is in New Mex...
