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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My grandmother always fed any man who came to the door. Times were tough for her, but grandpa always had a job and she felt it was her duty to help those less fortunate.
My grandmother always fed any man who came to the door. Times were tough for her, but grandpa always had a job and she felt it was her duty to help those less fortunate.<<<
The Hoboes left chalk marks showing which houses would feed them.
My mother was the same way, she always said “add more water to the soup, it will stretch”.
she probably knows this, but she could self-publish through Lulu.com, or actually through Amazon.com. <<<
She has been self publishing for several years, but the printer is now charging more than she sells them for.
Rita is so well known in the soap world, that they are sold before they are written.
easy bread recipes! Thanks Granny.<<<
You are welcome, hurry back.
We used a peppermint& papaya pill, mixed as one pill, it works, and helps all kinds of things.
The peppermint soothes the stomach and the papaya is a natural enzyme and eats all the collected poisons out.
My source went out of business and now I do not know where to get the same thing and not get other items mixed in the pills.
Here’s how you make the Swedish Tea Ring:<<<
Looks good, thanks for posting this.
Medicinal Use and Health Benefit of Cayenne Pepper (Capsicum)
“If you master only one herb in your life, master cayenne pepper. It is more powerful than any other.” Dr. Schulze<<<
Sorry for the short answers, but this wet weather, makes typing very difficult for me.
Bill was shot in the lung, WW2, left for dead on the battle field and managed to survive, in a german prison camp 3 years.
A cold would almost kill him.
When we came to Arizona, after one of his 5 month long colds and he managed to get a job, the Indian that he worked with told him to start eating Jalapeno peppers and he would stop the colds.
I went to Mexico and bought them by the gallons.
They worked for him, as long as he ate them, he had few colds.
When I was a kid in Texas, eating at the table with many cowboys and farm hands, Cayenne pepper was in the cans on the table and used instead of black pepper by them, on their foods.
I remember my cowboy uncle, being careful to not put the pepper on the beans he would feed me, but on his half of the plate.
It must have been awful, he was 18 and a ‘real cowboy’ and when he came in to the headquarters, where we lived and worked, there I was, 2 or 3 years old, meeting him and getting almost stepped on by his horse, expecting to be hauled around and fed /loved by him.
Honey is a wonderful blessing.
When my goats scratched their udders, I washed it and smeared honey on it for healing and did not use chemicals on them.
When they gave birth, I offered a gallon of hot water with a cup of honey and a good handful of salt in it.
Some would drink it as soon as the birth was over, others would wait for hours, then all of a sudden drink it all.
Gave for preventing shock, that they and we can have after the strain of giving birth or other stress and straining activity.
LOL, there is a name for it and I forgot it.
I learned the trick from Granpa Ira, and it works.
I found it interesting, that they know when to drink it.
The Health Benefits of Cinnamon<<<
Yes, but the soapmakers are very careful with it, many cannot use it on their skin.
Traces of melamine in baby formula? But keep feeding it?
Nothing to see here folks, move right along. Crazy world we’re living in, granny.<<<
Do you get the feeling that we are all just guinea pigs, as in:
“test it on them, we may not know how much, but they do not either”.
I am glad that you had a good Thanksgiving.
Now to work on Christmas.
I love ducks, as pets, not for dinner.
The eggs I used in baking.
I am not so sure about the cross breeding being sterile as I know of flocks of them that have been growing for years and increasing, without a full blood in the lot.
Do you enjoy growing succulents?<<<
Yes, before I got sick, I had a nice collection, but most are gone now.
I grew all kinds of plants for food and flowers, in the greenhouses, but not much in our yard, due to the soil and the wind blows away all the mulch, etc.
Now, some days, I can’t even manage to water the half dozen house plants.
making guinea pig noises.... Snort
No way am I ready for Christmas—can we just skip it this year?! LOL
Did make the gbaby some jammies out of the sheepie fabric. They are too cute!
The people we have today seem like they'd just as soon take money from someone else who earned it, and then complain that they are victims. Of all the liberal junk that's going on, that's the thing that bothers my son the most - welfare dependency. He's not real happy about political correctness either, but welfare drives him crazy.
OK off my soapbox now, LOL.
Chuckling and thinking, “she better get on the ball, if Christmas is still on the 25th, then you have less than a month to get your act together...” LOL
Do I have to admit that I double checked the time/date thingy on my computer? This year was only about 6 weeks long for me.
http://store.ourhealthcoop.com
The enzymes are posted here:
http://store.ourhealthcoop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=PEV&Show=TechSpecs
They charge $8 for this product. Their company makes all kinds of supplements and charges only 5% above cost. The owner is a retired doctor who is more concerned about people being properly nourished than making a pile of money.
I also found this:
http://betterherbs.serrahost.com/Detail.bok?no=247
Papaya Mint Chewable Tablets 70 tabs
SKU: 485-6
Papaya Mint Chewable Tablets
[Digestive] nutritionally support the digestive system, but they can also be used as a tasty breath mint. Papaya fruit contains an enzyme called papain that can break down protein, while peppermint leaves contain aromatic compounds that trigger the production of digestive fluids.
Tablets contain papaya fruit, peppermint leaf, fructose and sorbitol.
Chew 2 tablets with a meal three times daily, or use between meals as a breath freshener.
My husband wanted me to take apricot pits for the multiple myeloma, but we couldn't find anything, so we bought apricot pits on the Internet (from Michigan of all places, but I bet they got the pits from the packing shed down the street LOL), and he grinds them into a powder and puts them into capsules. Our capsule maker is pretty nifty - we bought it at the health food store down the street. It's called Cap-m-Quik.
6 weeks-—yeah, that’s about right!
I hate to sound like a Scrooge, but I’m getting tired of the whole thing. Everybody has everything they need. It’s not like when we were growing up and you got new clothes or other stuff you really needed and maybe a game or two. Don’t get me wrong—I love giving presents. Because i want to and I have something special for someone—not because it’s time to go out and spend money for obligatory gifts that will be forgotten/thrown away in no time.
Papaya Mint Blend
Code: 0517
Price: $7.95
Quantity:
Papaya is a hearty fruit that is known to invigorate the mind and to restore a weary body, and so is a delicious cup of Papaya Mint Blend.
A culinary interesting combination, this tea takes the smooth taste of papaya and infuses it with the freshness of mint and herbs. A sweet collision between Hawaii and Morocco, you get the best of both culinary worlds. In addition, this tea is noted for its ability to aid in digestion.
The Papaya Mint blend is a refreshing after dinner treat that that provides warmth on a chilly winter's eve, or relief from the heat of mid-July day. This tea is great whether served hot or cold.
You and your family can enjoy up to fifty cups of tea by purchasing a three ounce package. Freshness is locked-in with a tight foil seal. Papaya Mint Blend is the best after dinner companion that provides both refreshment and relief.
I'm thinking you could pulverize this tea and put it into the cap-m-quik capsules. Would that work?
We are not rich anyway but this year has been especially tight with high medical bills, so we are doing simple gifts this year. I plan to make our gifts (this thread is full of great gift ideas) and so folks I know are getting make-a-mix foods and handmade bath products. I can get baskets at either Cost Plus or maybe the dollar store. The food products are going into Mason jars with raffia or grosgrain ribbon ties, the bath products are going into canning jars with glass lids and wire hold-downs (I don't know what they are called).
I agree with you. Too many gifts are thrown out, returned for cash or given away. My aunt has a couple of hand-painted jars I gave her a few years ago still displayed in her kitchen. Those are the kinds of gifts people appreciate and remember!
http://www.thefind.com/beauty/info-papaya-mint
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