I dreamt I was helping an old woman and her family I guess but only saw her harvest something that was not a food crop like tobacco. My family grew tobacco all of our lives. The house she lived in was run down the paint was peeling and the roof was bad. I said to her seeing on the table a very bottom piece of the lettuce head a few pieces of potatoes and a carrot or two. I said you better get that stuff in the ground now or this winter you are going to starve. Stop planting whatever it was she had been planting. And start planting food and growing it while there is still time or you and yours will surely starve this winter. She agreed.
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Something that strikes me today about your dream -- winter cold is setting in, in my region. People don't plant, but they could. Farmers put in winter wheat. Cabbage and root vegetables like in your dream, handle the cold. Onions and garlic can be dug up, parsley often stays green.
As though your dream is not just saying to garden, but to stay gardening through winter.
Fast price increases, true. A relative that went through hyperinflation said they'd walk out of a store and back in, and prices changed again.
Inflation stats are much lower than reality. Most food increased fourfold since cvd started 2019.
Stats are pinned to specific products and container sizes-- so those might stay stable, while adjacent products rise in cost.
In the dream, growing seemed sufficient to sustain. I've heard this from interviews with people who went through crises -- they just didn't go into stores and buy, so prices were less relevant.
When I was young, neighbors would grow vegetables and bring over a pile, and we'd give them something we grew too much of, or canned. It wasn't even bartering -- it was just sharing out of abundance and friendship.
I love the smell of tobacco, even though I don't smoke. Your home must have smelled great.
Proverbs 24:27 comes to mind -- prepare your field before your house.
It seems she did that -- putting everything into the business, both money and time.
In your dream, it hadn't paid off. I've been part of small businesses, where people pour their entire lives into their work.
Hard work doesn't always lead to profit, but smart moves can be made to switch products/services.
It's difficult for a visionary to change their vision, but in your dream it was a matter of survival.
This message might be for us all. I find some of the things I work on would collapse in a long-term blackout, or economic crisis. All the work I'd done would become a burden instead of a storehouse.
Similar to tobacco, which doesn't feed people in a famine.
It struck me that she had the meager starters for a food garden -- lettuce core, carrot, potato chunks with eyes can be planted. She could either eat these, or plant them to generate more.