This is all just my opinion based on a flawed memory
the salmon were still running and spawning under the glaciers, which is good to think about. The Earth does not shut down, but it will get thrown out of whack. Salmon are a great food source, but they have their moments when they are not... like when the ocean currents change or... just because they are a little fickle they decide en mass to not spawn this year, and spent a two year cycle in the ocean. They can't really be relied on 100%. 99.99 maybe... but not 100 %. Even the middens of the Northwest Coast of North America showed salmon deficit layers which held way more deer and marginal fish bones and no salmon.Living on the southern end of anything resembling healthy salmon populations, I would bet a cold syear would do mostly good for these fish which need cold water to breed. The water would be my first place to look for food, as warm temperatures are killing off major ocean food sources as it is.
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Roberto pokachinni wrote:
the salmon were still running and spawning under the glaciers, which is good to think about. The Earth does not shut down, but it will get thrown out of whack. Salmon are a great food source, but they have their moments when they are not... like when the ocean currents change or... just because they are a little fickle they decide en mass to not spawn this year, and spent a two year cycle in the ocean. They can't really be relied on 100%. 99.99 maybe... but not 100 %. Even the middens of the Northwest Coast of North America showed salmon deficit layers which held way more deer and marginal fish bones and no salmon.Living on the southern end of anything resembling healthy salmon populations, I would bet a cold syear would do mostly good for these fish which need cold water to breed. The water would be my first place to look for food, as warm temperatures are killing off major ocean food sources as it is.
So the question was what would a permacultural community do if suddenly winter didn't stop for a few years. Well I would think that around here, most folks would learn to snare and be eating rabbits pretty quick... potato and rabbit stew. Gathering more nettles and chaga, and birch syrup, and other wild foods et cetera.
I'd be keeping better care of my tools. Paying more attention to the directions that the birds fly. Paying more attention in general. The permacultural observe, observe, observe motto would go a long way to ensuring survival during this time.
The local dairy farm which is a 5 minute walk away will be looking to thin it's herd because of the limited hay supply and as such I will go get me a thousand pounds of jerky in exchange for adding to the labor of the processing of their herd, or possibly exchanging veggies or wild food and medicine plants. I would do the same for some lamb.
Growing food under cover, following the 4 season garden approach and taking it to the extreme.
The landrace, seed saving, seed swapping, and probably doing a lot more of this with animals too.
I would isolate my heating area until I had a massive backlog of firewood gathered.
I would hold a community meeting to try to formulate a strategy for making sure that we are all fed and housed safely.
I would go up my creek and do a bunch of permaculture, increasing it's potential to hold winter run off, thinking that when the climate yo yo's and shifts to a hot dry period, my creek will still be productive.
Has anybody read Lucifer's Hammer? It's novel based on the idea of a oceanic meteor strike which produces as Biblical rainstorm, and the resulting crop losses. A great read. It's been more than a decade, so I can't remember much of it at this time, but I do recall some judge in central California setting up a community of some sort based around greenhouses.
This is all just my opinion based on a flawed memory
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