Boy do I get what your saying airdale.

I'm in northern Alabama and put all my eggs in the permaculture basket. I have a little over half an acre in a subdivision, but I planted it with assorted fruit and nut trees.

Thanks to the false spring and late freeze this year I got zip. Just when the fruit and nut trees were mature enough to start producing significant crops, the spiky weather killed them, lost all the fruit and it actually killed my pecan trees.

Then it was followed by drought.

Then last week everything got covered in a cloud of smoke from the fires in Georgia. The trees were not happy about that (nor was my asthma)

It's just barely June, an already everything is dieing in the heat.

According to the history channel. When the weather got wild a couple of centuries ago, farmer switched to root crops like potatoes because the could survive the weather spikes. While the grains would be wiped out .

It certainly seemed easier to plant a garden back in Pennsylvania when I was a kid. Predictable rains and better soil.