Most of my friends here in Maine have vegetable gardens and know how to can and preserve what we grow.
As an old timer told me; “Growing food is like growing money”
Do you know where your food comes from? What happens when the shipping costs double, and that steak or chop triples in price? What happens when a disease wipes out half the country’s wheat crop because one of the five strains of seed we use becomes infected? What happens when the government and the agro-businesses decide that you can’t have potatoes anymore?
Maine is leading the county in new small farm starts.
It’s because there is a healthy demand for clean healthy food and a desire to keep our food dollars here in the state.
(Explains why the FDA just opened it’s third office in the state)
Don’t you have a super-short growing season?