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Good for you, it is the only way to survive.

If enough of us start growing our own food, maybe it will scare the fools in Washington, who think we should import every thing.

Grow all you can and buy the rest local.

The Farm Extension office, can often direct you to Farmers Markets that are held on the weekend, or talk to the local swapmeet and see if they will include one.

Fight back and we will live if we miss a year or two of the expensive items.

Keep looking and you might even find someone who will share a beef or hog with you.

We did, when we moved to Wellton, I had met a lady, a widow and she was raising her last steer, as the kids told her she was too old to keep on raising livestock and she really was.

We hauled it to the butcher shop and on the way, she said to me, “Now dear, you will have to tell the butcher how you want yours packaged.......” I was speechless.

Then she finished the deal, she said you take half my steer and then buy a day old calf and by the time it is ready for the butcher, we will have eaten this one .........

And we did.

In fact, we kept on raising calves hers and ours, but we both had fresh beef.

Her kids came and killed the rest of the chickens that summer, but in the spring I ordered 200 day old chicks and Mary had to have some of them for her place, then I got into pigeons, and she ate all the squabs and started a coop of her own.

And she ate our lamb, LOL, but not until it was 2 or 3 years old and I found out her secret.......at 2 pm every day he raised a ruckus, and she would ignore him.

I caught her, she said “Well he likes his bottle every day and I enjoy giving it to him!!”.......this from the lady who could have written the book about not getting attached to farm animals.

Get creative....