>>>though I’m guilty of crowding my plants sometimes. This year will be different. No, REALLY. It will, LOL!<<<
Double LOL - I always have trouble thinning - hate to kill that plant that just may provide an extra veggie or two... So, I am working lots harder controlling the seeding rates... (I too say THIS year it will be different)
Lots of people turn their noses up when see me getting baskets of pick-out apples - but I get 5 for every one they get of their ‘select’ ones ($ for $)... Great sauce, great pies, great jelly. (bet they don’t even know how to make it) Bet they think that only perfect fruit goes into what they buy in the store...
Gleaning is a lost art. I can remember feeding several pigs with corn gleaned from fields after storms lodged the crop.
I wouldn’t even think of it as bottom feeding - just smart eating...
It really irks me that they don’t allow ‘recycling’ at our landfills - I see lots of things that others no longer needed that would really be great for something I had in mind. But, they seem to think that plastic pail is better buried for a millenia than it is for it to be used to haul veggies to my chickens. Go figure...
Amazing, isn’t it? I can’t begin to tell you the ‘trash picked’ useful items that grace my home, LOL!
The rest of the main furniture pieces are antiques that have been in my family for generations. I’m continually amazed that furniture stores stay in business, but I’ve heard that some people buy whole rooms of new furniture, FINANCED, every few years! Eeeeek!
Being trapped in a furniture store is my idea of ‘Hell,’ LOL!