Really getting serious about food storage

This post is inspired by this article, especially the headline:

"We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say"

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/we-are-now-one-year-and-counting-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say--2?

The problem is that it seems so close, and so completely logical. Certainly, it is likely that it will hit other areas before it hits here. Even with the issue of how misapplication of the Farm Bill leads to the bread basket of the USA being planted with corn crops that are unfit for consumption except as converted into high fructose corn syrup, I love in the beautiful and farm-friendly Pacific Northwest. However, the changes in the weather patterns are causing problems for them too. Sometimes you don't remember how fragile everything can be.

Something I had been thinking about doing lately is making up a list of what I would want in a year's supply, and then acquiring it. We have food storage now, but it could be better organized, and more complete.

So that's the next project. I will calculate the amounts and items that we want, and start building that up. It won't be that different from what I have been doing, but this is a higher level of organization, commensurate with the higher level of urgency.

I'm going to have to look at gardening too, and clearing out spaces for storage. Some things seem impractical, but I will take that as it comes. A year is not a bad amount of time for getting a good supply in, but the clock is ticking.