Food Shortage Ahead? My Buddy Says 'Yes!'
Tim says a serious food shortage is coming soon and that Halifax cantaloupes have changed. |
My old buddy Tim, whose Rolling Meadows farm truck is generally parked at Roanoke City Market this time of year, has a pretty dire prediction for the coming months--as is his usual bent. Tim is not the most optimistic of us, but he's usually right, from what I've been able to gauge.
This began because I asked him where the farmers were. The market is nearly empty, save for his booth. His response: bring back the customers and the farmers will follow. I looked around. Almost no customers. It's been that way since long before Covid-19 made it almost impossible to shop or do anything else, but I thought we were easing our way out of it.
Tim doesn't see that light at the end of the tunnel and he seriously believes a serious food shortage--for the entire country--is the next big challenge for Americans, who have endured Covid, the Republican Party, Donald Trump, Afghanistan, police murdering citizens and god knows whatall the past months.
But please, please don't rush to Kroger and hoard food. That will pretty ensure Tim being right.
Oh, and one other thing I learned from him (he's full of great trivia): Halifax cantaloupes aren't what they used to be. Literally. They are a completely different brand of seed than was initially used and which, like Vidalia onions, became an icon. Tim grows the same kind of seeds they grow in Halifax County and his farm is in Martinsville--not that far from Halifax--and has the same soil. "I sell the same cantaloupes they sell, but mine can't be called 'Halifax.'"
That is your lesson for today, boys and girls.
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