this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
503 points (98.8% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
26305 readers
3 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not only are they versatile, they're easy to grow in marginal soils without extra irrigation, store for a long time without refrigeration, can be dehydrated and stored even longer, and if it starts sprouting you can just plant it again and get more potatoes.
If there's two plants you should learn to grow for the apocalypse I recommend potatoes and pumpkins and if you can pick one it's definitely potatoes.
Now that said, potatoes only is probably not a great "Plan A."
I wonder if that was a case of a lack of genetic diversity. Potatoes are indigenous to the Americas, so there's a lot more diversity which can help protect against disease.
For Ireland at least, it seems you’re not wrong.
The Irish famine was ultimately caused because their English landlords demanded they send their cash crops away to make them money, and the main thing they had left was potatoes. The potatoes weren't plan A, they were plan Z after everything else was stolen from them. It was caused by colonialism. Yes, the potatoes were too important and the monoculture was a problem, but it's not like they didn't know that, they just didn't have the freedom to do it better.
The potato blight actually returned some years later but by that time they had organised militant eviction defense to prevent the destruction of their communities and far fewer people died.
So a lot of historians and the Irish themselves will object to calling it the "potato famine" because it grossly distorts the reality of what happened.
Technically, I never said whose Plan A...
Fair lol.
"The crisis prorduced excess mortality" is a great way of putting that
You don't even need soil, you can just put them on the ground and cover them with hay, and they grow just fine.
And they're prolific. With intensive cultivation you can get hundreds of pounds a year out of a hundred square feet.
I just watched "The Botany of Desire" with Michael Pollan, and learned a fuck ton about potatoes. I agree lol
Pumpkins I'm curious about. All I can even think of to do with a pumpkin is pie, though I'm sure there's probably more traditionally done with them
You can do a lot of the same things you do with potatoes: Boil 'em, bake 'em, fry 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. Put them together and you get a complete protein.