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Generations of Americans are facing threadbare finances in retirement: Judging by what people say they expect to spend versus what they expect to take in, the disparity between income and expenses will be severe.

Social Security's trust fund is in the long, slow process of collapsing because it won't have enough funds to pay its promised benefits. Sound like a Ponzi scheme? Perhaps, but at least this "scheme" is one in which you can come out ahead -- especially if you start preparing now.

"It's the economy," John Kallas was telling a friend. I was browsing a street fair here in Portland when I saw the booth of Kallas, a local wildcrafting expert. It was hard not for a sustainable food geek like me to get excited, what with the jars of wild edibles ranging from black walnuts to...