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An Off Grid Life Helping you become more self-reliant. Last week, I told you about the Black Bean and Stealth Pea Chili Disaster that occurred when I hit the absolute bottom of my root-vegetable bins during the June Gap. Once the dust settled and our shelves were (somewhat) replenished, I had to sit down and do the math. Why did we run out? When I looked back at the numbers, the answer wasn't a failure of the soil. It was a failure of logistics. A northern logistics nightmare At the time, we...