Back to Plan A

What was plan A, I hear you ask? And why did we go to Plan B? Well let me take you back a few years. About 10,000 of them actually. Before that time everyone fed themselves on what they found, and they left it there because they knew that when they came back again next year, it would give them another bunch of food like this year. They moved about and fed themselves on raspberry from the edge of that wood, and then they ate hazelnuts as they traveled through the wood. Maybe finding some Oyster mushrooms growing off an old log.

This went well for a short while... about 50,000 years. But you know how it is. There must be change or else everything will stay just like it is. Also, we have to feed the growing population. Did you know that at the last stone age census, there were fifty people living in McDonald County? How the heck are we going to feed all those people with just a few raspberries and hazelnuts. I know, lets cut down those woods, dig it all up and plant some corn in nice neat rows. Then when someone eventually invents a combine harvester, we can quickly harvest all the corn we've grown and make lots of recipes that I saw on primitive Pinterest last week.

Well that's been okay for a while but now there are thousands of people in McDonald County, and do you remember Jed Clampit found that black gold that we used to make gas for that combine harvester we eventually got invented? Well it turns out that the black gold is running dry and the insects have started eating all our corn. But we sorted out that last problem because some clever people invented a spray to kill all those insects, and they also invented a bunch of stuff to put on our crops to make them grow quicker and bigger. What does it matter that the soil is turning to dust, we just have to pour more stuff on the fields each year to make the corn grow. What? You say you don't like corn? It gives you allergies? What are allergies? We never had them when I was a kid. Must be something else we need to invent to stop that.

Now I've heard there are some strange people about these days. Subversives I dare say. They say they have come up with a really great idea. They say they are going to plant different stuff all over their farms. They say they aren't going to grow just corn, and what's more, they reckon they aren't going to use any of that brilliant stuff that the clever people invented. They say they are going to bring the soil back to what it used to be like. And they are going to let nature take it's course with the insects and stuff. It all sounds a little far fetched to me, but I do like a raspberry now and again and apparently there are more calories in hazelnuts and chestnuts than all the corn we have been growing. I do think it's a bit subversive to me. I think it will cause a lot of problems for all those clever people in time. Those clever people will probably have to get a job at Walmart. What? Walmart will be turned into a Farmers Supercenter Market? Are you telling me that I won't be able to buy my chemical enriched food anymore?

Hello, my name is Graham and I'm a subversive.