Frightening Food Shortage Facts
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Worldwide efforts to eliminate hunger and malnutrition aren’t succeeding. A 2022 World Health Organization report found that around 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021. That’s 46 million more than in 2020 and 150 million more than in 2019.
Now the largest region in the world that grows wheat and grain is at war with itself. Russia and Ukraine have not planted the seeds needed to feed the world.
India has closed its borders to the export of wheat and grain.
Media and world governments all are predicting increases in the cost of grains resulting in hunger and famine for those vulnerable to any increase in the cost of food.
Bureaucracy is making the wheat and grain shortage worse. In the United States, many farmers' hands are tied by federal funding that has prioritized growing soybeans by issuing subsidies and incentives.
In America, we the people must be the ones to plant wheat and grain in our front yards to ensure hunger has no place to reside in our communities.
The Good News: You Can Grow Grain!
History tells us it is time to plant wheat and grain to be able to share bread within our local communities to prevent hunger. We need to look at our abundance of time, land, and ability to participate in fortifying our society in new ways.
Fortunately, growing wheat and grain in small amounts is very easy and requires no special equipment. If you have dirt and water, you can grow wheat and grain.
I have chosen to use 1,000 square feet of my front yard to plant and grow winter rye and buckwheat for donation to my local SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) food bank. My intention is to feed any of my neighbors who is hungry or struggling to place food on their tables. My vision is for my town to be a leader in innovating food prosperity.
Kat’s Grain Garden
I am putting my words into action by trying to grow wheat in my front yard in an area that previously had wild grasses. I want to do my part to help feed my home fresh wheat and share my abundance with local people in need of fresh food. My vision is that the wheat products my household does not buy in the store can be shared globally with countries facing hunger and starvation or be purchased by local homes who do not have land to grow their own food.
I am just learning how to grow my own wheat. To know how to grow wheat and about wheat, watch the video below. It really made it easy to understand what I needed to do to have success in planting and growing wheat and what to do at harvest time.
In early June, we prepared the field in the front of my house by tilling the soil, making sure to mix the compost with our topsoil. We then used our hands to spread the seed on the field.
The wheat seed started to sprout within the week of being planted. The photos at left (above in mobile view), taken three weeks after planting, show how quickly the wheat grew. The patches of wheat are because some of the wheat grains haven't sprouted yet, but we believe we just need to give the grain more time to sprout. It hasn't rained, but we hired a water tank to get us through the first few weeks with no rain.