Growing Your Own Food: An Act of Rebellion

I never imagined having a garden would be a form of rebellion; a simple act to know what goes into my body has now become questionable in some places.

When I think about a garden and some chickens, I used to see food; now I see freedom.

A way to escape a system that is trying to keep us stuck, a system that wants us sick and dependent.

This is not something I will partake in. Instead, I started a homestead and a garden.

I didn’t understand why I kept seeing the term victory garden all over social media until I looked into it. Now I understand.

The victory garden gained popularity during WW1 and WW2 when food was scarce, and times were tough.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Unless you have been unintentionally ignoring what is happening in the world, you will realize there is something wrong right now. There is talk of a worldwide famine by the end of the summer due to the ongoing war.

Rent, utilities, and food prices have skyrocketed. Thousands of people are being laid off daily, and many are even living in their cars for shelter.

Water shortages, droughts, and data centers being built where farmland once stood.

The world is in crisis.

And I sit here watching from my very own victory garden, also known as a war garden.

I lived with my grandmother in high school. She lived during the Great Depression, and some of her habits trickled down to me, along with my parents, who were old-school homesteaders and taught me never to be dependent on someone else for my survival.

A lesson I took with me and continue to think about.

Maybe that is why I fought so hard to get out of a broken system when I realized I was too embedded and knew something was off — especially when I began looking at the food systems and healthcare systems.

I came from a family of farmers, those who worked the land with their hands. I knew where food came from, but somewhere along the way, I got lost, as so many do in their younger years.

Luckily, I found my way back through healthy eating and detoxing my body and brain from the propaganda being shoved down my throat at every turn.

For me, the only way out was out, to leave everything I knew and start over.

Unfortunately, that is not always the best answer for everyone. It just happened to work out for me.

Back when I was living in LA before I left the US in 2018, I began an obsession with learning how people survived with very little.

How?

I was on a mission to figure out how other people lived and to get out of my comfort zone. I intentionally chose to live with less and discover how much I could handle.

I still live this way because I enjoy it.

Recently, I began looking into how people survived the Great Depression, which brings me back to victory gardens.

When young men were sent off to war, the government encouraged the families left behind to be self-sufficient and grow their own food, raise their own chickens, to survive.

Not to be dependent on anyone for survival.

And hence, the victory garden.

If you look around the world now, there are a lot of similarities — except one.

In the US, you are not encouraged to be self-sufficient. You are easier to control if you are dependent.

They want you to rely on them, and they are not coming to save you.

Some areas have outlawed backyard chickens. Some places don’t allow you to have a garden in your front yard.

To me, this is insanity.

I saw the writing on the wall years before I decided to leave. I saw rules and regulations around what you could do on your own land, and I did not like it.

I have always been a bit rebellious anyway, but I was not willing to be stuck in a system that wanted to control you — to have you dependent on them for anything.

We went from a nation that once encouraged self-sufficiency to one where it is frowned upon.

Possibly because dependence is easier to control.

That is something I refuse to be part of.

• Start a garden.
• Raise backyard chickens.
• Learn how to feed yourself.

Rebel against the system that wants you dependent.

I think we need to bring back backyard chickens and victory gardens.

A rebellion that can save you and your family.

XOXO

S