Posted on 03/23/2008 11:36:40 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
Americans finding soaring food prices hard to stomach can battle back by growing their own food. [Click image for a larger version] Dean Fosdick Dean Fosdick
Home vegetable gardens appear to be booming as a result of the twin movements to eat local and pinch pennies.
At the Southeastern Flower Show in Atlanta this winter, D. Landreth Seed Co. of New Freedom, Pa., sold three to four times more seed packets than last year, says Barb Melera, president. "This is the first time I've ever heard people say, 'I can grow this more cheaply than I can buy it in the supermarket.' That's a 180-degree turn from the norm."
Roger Doiron, a gardener and fresh-food advocate from Scarborough, Maine, said he turned $85 worth of seeds into more than six months of vegetables for his family of five.
A year later, he says, the family still had "several quarts of tomato sauce, bags of mixed vegetables and ice-cube trays of pesto in the freezer; 20 heads of garlic, a five-gallon crock of sauerkraut, more homegrown hot-pepper sauce than one family could comfortably eat in a year and three sorts of squash, which we make into soups, stews and bread."
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She compares the current period of market uncertainty with that of the early- to mid-20th century when the concept of victory gardens became popular.
"A lot of companies during the world wars and the Great Depression era encouraged vegetable gardening as a way of addressing layoffs, reduced wages and such," she says. "Some companies, like U.S. Steel, made gardens available at the workplace. Railroads provided easements they'd rent to employees and others for gardening."
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Compost outlaws, means, you make the compost in the bath tub and take a shower out on the front lawn, behind the
“no compost” protest sign.
Smile, I can taste them.
My friend Mary made them for me for years.
[[Candied orange peel]
My man here if from Maine. He says when we find our new place that *he* is planting blueberries. He says he’ll dig a pit and haul in the soil for ‘em. LOL - if we get to that point I’ll keep you posted.<<<
When you find your new place, plan on blue berries going in a cool spot....
There will be someplace, a gully or ? where it is a few degrees cooler.
In San Diego, for years, I bought flats of blackberries from a lady, whose father had planted them years before, he had cut a bank and they were in a canyon, on the shelf, where it was a few degrees cooler and they would grow.
Thank you and I am so glad you found the thread, you are welcome here and on the new thread at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2181392/posts?q=1&;page=51
Thank you.
Survival is the most important goal for all of us.
You are welcome here and on the new #2 thread at:
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Thanks for the links, I am so glad you found this thread and do join us on the second thread at:
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I am not going to ask for this thread to be closed, but in the future, all the new posting will have to be on the new thread.
When a thread has as many large posts as this one, it slows down the server for Free Republic and they like us not to go over 10,000 posts.
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I guess one has to do what one has to do to deal with the stress of the "bailout" and the treasury's rescue plan announced yesterday. It makes me feel that I've a lot of learning to do, and the clock is ticking faster every day. Maybe today I can go to town and pick up a few of the necessities for the 72 hour kit. I have it started and pretty much know what to get, so I need to get at it. The current tornado watches this morning only emphasize to me that "we know not the time", and I need to get at it. Sorry for the incoherent early morning rambling - I'll get awake here in a few........
I guess one has to do what one has to do to deal with the stress of the “bailout” and the treasury’s rescue plan announced yesterday. It makes me feel that I’ve a lot of learning to do, and the clock is ticking faster every day.<<<
I am truly in fear of the bailout plan and all the socialist intentions in it.
Learn, and then learn some more, it is what is in our heads that will get us over the humps in life.
I wanted to be a writer and thought that if I were ever to be a good one, then I needed to know what I was talking about, so I learned a little about many things that a normal person would not.
Also the lack of education, made me go and learn all subjects and now I am glad that I did.
These threads are meant to give you an idea of what is out there, so you will go and learn.
I pray you stay safe and we never need all this information.
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This thread never ceases to amaze me. I am going through from the beginning and copying what I need, putting them into different categories, so I do not use too much space on a .doc file. I do not have the confidence to sew. But, yesterday thought of trying to sew clothes for my children, so was searching craigslist in case anyone had any patterns they were giving away or selling. Here on 754 I see you posted clothing patterns online. Yay!
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For later reading...constant reading :)
Self-ping!
Marked...
Marking this for myself.
Depression Cooking with Clara (who’s 93 y.o.)
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92321?fp=1
http://casserolecrazy.com/2008/10/18/depression-cooking-with-clara/
Reading your words often makes me get a bit sad, wishing for a simpler time. Your stories, and the way you write, are a joy.
You are quite a woman.
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