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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Thanks JD, just what I need, more stuff to read. LOL at this rate I’ll need to live to be 180 years old to finish my reading list.
So much for spring, I heard the local radio say that dreaded word ‘rain’.
Had to laugh, as the man who is going to put tar on one of the leaks, laughed yesterday and said I would not know if he had got the leak stopped, until months later, wait for it to rain.
Thanks for the pest control and companion plants posts last night I copied them and sent them on to my sister.
“My Dad would like a German Chocolate Cake version.
Now you’ve got me thinking . . . Oh Whee.”
When you get the recipe tested be sure to post it back and ping LucyT to it. Revenge!
We’re coming up on the anniversary of Dale’s death. Somewhere I found a copy of Garth Brook’s song “The Dance” with commentary about Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s last race in the background. Very moving.
My stepdaughter cried for hours that day. She’s is very tenderhearted. I’ve tried to get her to sign onto this thread, she’d enjoy the heck out of it. I hope she does join us sometime.
Granny, on TV the other night the newscaster was talking about a computer virus that was called the “plague.” If you see anything about that can you post it here? I’d look it up but I’ve been doing my posting from work and my time is a bit limited. When my computer finally agrees to go online I’ll be able to keep up better.
Anyway, most of the pleasure is in the planning, so here I sit, perusing seed catalogs, planning and wiling away a snowy day.<<<
You do get it.
Gardening is for dreamers.
Gardens are where I talk to God the most.......LOL, never waste your breath explaining to the preacher that you were not in church last Sunday, but were closer to God in the garden, he must not have been a gardener.
You can dream anything you want, with a good catalog.
Yes, I traded a nice home to move to the desert, and for the first year, slept outdoors, even had a stove out there in the patio and mostly lived in the patio.
We had a 26’ mobile, but it was not big enough for my kind of living.
I trained to be a florist. Today, if I need to send flowers to someone, or a family that has lost a loved one, I send a tree, or the money for a tree, it really does not matter if it goes into a fruit or shade tree, we need both here.
When I got sick, I was all set for getting into the old varieties of roses, so many of them cross over into the healing world and the rose hips are good food.
I am so glad you are living your dream, that makes all the years of work worth while.
Your husband sounds like my brother and husband.
I have Mary’s horse drawn cultivator, sitting out there in the yard, never had a horse to pull it, but Mary worked the farm with it and I have it now.
We grew rabbits, and I sold them frozen, several people bought them, until Bill said no more killing would be done by him.
During WW2, my dad grew them and sold them on the black market, as people would buy anything, to get meat, and his rabbits were not rationed on the black market.
Why not check with the 4-H groups or other children’s groups and see which breed they want to grow, maybe you can get in the “pet” rabbit business.
If times get rough, folks will be pleased with a rabbit dinner.
I do know how you feel about eating pets, but once it is in the freezer, after a few weeks, I quit calling it by its name.
I have had several pet pigs, I like them.
I thought the onions were too strong after seeding and the seed will draw all the goodies out of the onion, so that there is not much of it left.
The split off onions are fine.
Welcome back granny. Very good to have you.
Any more info about the explosives car? I’d like to post it.
Kingman was a cold town 30 years ago, without the meth.
There is a lot of meth in the younger crowd, but we have more seniors here than young.
Many of them moved here from California and are busy getting all the Calif. laws on the books here.
It is an odd town, not one I would have chosen.
The only people that I have met here and liked, were at the college, the students have brains that they have not put in the freezer.
computer virus that was called the “plague.” <<<
I may have it, as I still have several thousand emails that I have not waded through. I will watch for it and post it.
Maybe the people that has the poultry down the road would take care of them for you.
Mature Guinea hen flocks will almost take care of themselves, if they get water and feed.
Ours lived in the haystack and under it, they were fun, as they make their runs/searches on set routes, at set times, you know what the time is, by where they are in the yard.
LOL and I always got a kick out of watching the males raise the babies. All males are the daddy, and it is a tribal effort.
The eggs are about the same as chicken eggs.
We did not eat poultry, or very rarely, so I do not know how tasty they are, but they are pricey if eaten in a restaurant.
Sure.
Thanks.
Not today. Today is a teaching day. But the end of my week. LOL.
They seem pretty lean to me, so they might not be very good eating. Fresh eggs would be nice, though, and tick control would certainly be a benefit as well.
KAAA Radio, local news for Kingman, Arizona.
The Dolan Springs school was under lock down yesterday.
A 5’7” man, wearing a black ski mask and a black cap with the letter A on it, managed to get on campus and he wrecked one
[?] room or area and he had a gun.
Dolan Springs is about 35 miles north of Kingman and 10 miles off Hwy 93, the Las Vegas road.
On the bus crash there last week [with 7 dead], it was near the turn off.
There is some mystery about the crash and the bus is stored by the Highway Patrol in a Kingman lot.
There are sure a lot of schools shut down because of men with guns...why? Why take a gun to school?
I have heard several on different radio stations.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1990507/posts?page=9444#9444
That is the latest that I saw, also see post 9433.
It is off the news broadcasts on 850koa.com radio news.
I haven’t had a chance to check all the mail in yahoo, will take several days, as I could not see the messages with the old computer.
So forgive me if I am sending you stuff that you posted days ago, as LOL, I haven’t got to them as yet.
The Guinea’ meat may be all dark meat.
LOL, don’t ask me where I got that idea, it floated through my mind.
The 2 ducks that I cooked were dark meat...LOL, gave us an excuse to never eat them again.
Fish and poultry do not tempt me, well except for once a year I will want to have the old style Kentucky fried chicken with all the trimmings. We have a good Kentucky Fried Chicken shop in Kingman.
I love KFC, but it’s been a few years since I have had it. My husband is diabetic.
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I love KFC, but it’s been a few years since I have had it.<<<
That proves that we know good food.
I am so sorry that your husband cannot still enjoy KFC, I know it is rough on him.
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