You begin to see that growing even a little of your own food is, as Wendell Berry pointed out 30 years ago, one of those solutions that, instead of begetting a new set of problems — the way “solutions” like ethanol or nuclear power inevitably do — actually beget other solutions, and not only of the kind that save carbon. Still more valuable are the habits of mind that growing a little of your own food can yield. You quickly learn that you need not be dependent on specialists to provide for yourself — that your body is still good for something and may actually be enlisted in its own support. If the experts are right, if both oil and time are running out, these are skills and habits of mind we’re all very soon going to need. We may also need the food. Could gardens provide it? Well, during World War II, victory gardens supplied as much as 40 percent of the produce Americans ate.

So…

We need to break down huge mega-farms that are so dependant on fossil fuels and get them to alternative energy ASAP to run their farms. Organic, intercropping and crop-rotation are just some of those solutions.

And we need to encourage victory gardens. Anyone reading here old enough to remember what those are? We need to have community farms and encourage less paving over of farmland. Our rich topsoil areas will be our new wealth. The same wealth we've always had and decided to ignore in favor of urban sprawl..