Has anyone gotten an original Economist Black cover and run it through brightness filters to see if it IS just a black cover or is it black and slightly black, hiding an image?

Besides the grand solar minimum, the farm fields of The US have been depleted of their nutrients. So, not only is the weather going to make growing harder, the soil is going to make growing harder.

Thus, if wheat is part of your staples, buy them now.

Get a greenhouse and get growing your own food.

And buy a wood burning stove, because next year's winter is going to be worse and longer. No electricity, no heat, for a month.