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Posted on 06/11/2011 3:46:44 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Pollster1
Not many squirrels, here. But pigeon, quail, waterfowl...
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:53:21 AM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: NVDave
Ok, what are you going to do with these seeds? Dig them in with a stick? Harvest everything by hand?Oh, no! That's exactly how I do it in my garden. Am I doing it wrong?!?!?!
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:56:18 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: bgill
“Am I doing it wrong?!?!?!”
Heck yeah. You need Mexicans.
OK Mexicans don’t work in agriculture. I made it up.
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posted on
06/12/2011 9:59:52 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Pollster1
Can you say where you live (in general if you prefer to avoid specifics) and what you plant for each seasonal crop?Check on your local County Extension website for seasonal crops as well as preserving. Great source of info.
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:07:00 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: freedumb2003
But most people in the USA live in cities/suburbs. We rely on manufactured products such as gasoline, refined sugar (yes, that is manufactured), plastics, clothing, booze, etc.Zombieland. Don't expect the rest of us on here to feel any sympathy when the zombies stumble out of the city. You say it won't happen, yet you keep posting.
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:15:46 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: memcindoe
I knew that fresh crops taste way better than anything I could buy at the grocery storeMunching on homegrown cherry tomatoes as we speak. Yumm. Just like candy.
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:21:57 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: reformedliberal
I’ve had bugs eating the broccoli and cauliflower but taking my thumb and forefinger to them has solved the problem. Squish!
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:30:03 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: freedumb2003
If a heat wave were to hit would your garden survive?We've had high 90's to 100 degree temps for two months and the garden is happy. Summer doesn't start for another two weeks. What do you consider a heat wave?
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:40:51 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: driftdiver
Your biker gang will be shot on the second house and their gas taken for someones generator.As Sipsey says in Fried Green Tomatoes (another great dish from home gardens), "The secret's in the sauce."
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posted on
06/12/2011 10:48:34 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: reformedliberal
With CDs paying so little in interest and then having to return part of that pittance back to the government at the end of the year and considering it might not be so easy to get to it when you need it, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to dig a hole and bury it.
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posted on
06/12/2011 11:01:33 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: goat granny
Canning meat isn’t that difficult. Home canned chili - yumm. My bunch pig out on homemade jerky.
Because of their high acidity, tomatoes can be canned in a homemade solar oven.
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posted on
06/12/2011 11:14:56 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: freedumb2003; RegulatorCountry
Said tiller/lawnmower uses gasoline (and oil), right? What do you do when the gasoline stops?... Your checking on cars wont help when me and my zombie biker gang I'm betting Regulator's tiller uses the same gas and oil as a motorcycle. Cool, front door fuel delivery and it'll last for many a growing season.
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posted on
06/12/2011 11:22:33 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: freedumb2003
Years worth? Really?Yes, there are people who do have gas stored on their property. Do you seriously think people drive their tractors into town for fill ups at the convenience store pumps? Hahahahaha, your gang wouldn't last a mile past the city limit sign if you even make it that far before an inner city gang takes your bikes for themselves.
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posted on
06/12/2011 11:33:03 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: PA Engineer; goat granny
Don’t you still have to replace the jar rubbers?
granny - Do you have an old Betty Crocker Cookbook? There’s a recipe in there for “filled cookies” that is da bomb for using up old jam. The best filling is tomato preserves, yum. It’s basically two sugar cookies with jam between much like a pop tart. They freeze well, too.
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posted on
06/12/2011 11:56:18 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: driftdiver
Here in Florida (Hurricane Country) the State analysis has shown 80% of people dont have 3 DAYS of food or water in their home.Which is why store shelves so soon go empty and the ones who didn't make it there in time are left complaining to tv cameras. It plays out like that each and every time. You'd think they'd have found a clue by now.
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:02:37 PM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:30:17 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: bgill
“You’d think they’d have found a clue by now.”
They are too busy making fun of those who do prepare.
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:46:20 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: bgill
Here in the Mid-Atlantic, folks clear the shelves at the first forecast of snow. It doesn’t take much to freak ‘em out.
My favorite laugh from the days just before Y2K when I went to the food store with my mother, who was in her early 70’s at the time. A friend of hers was there with half her cart loaded up with loaves of bread and couldn’t seem to understand why Mom wasn’t doing the same. Mom pointed to the 10-lb bag of bread flour and jar of yeast in her own cart and said “I am. I just store it differently than you do.”
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:46:42 PM PDT
by
memcindoe
(My ancestral motto: This I Will Defend!)
To: Kartographer
the fact remains that up until very recently (perhaps the last three to four decades) barter and independent trade was commonplace in this country.I have not read all the comments, so this may have already been addressed.
I do not know who this "Randy" is but if he believes that until the past 30 to 40 years Americans did most of their commerce by bartering and independent trade, he is FOS. I have been around for over 70 years and I cannot recall a time wherein it was NOT the practice to use MONEY to BUY goods and services.
But some people, the world began when they were born.
To: bgill
A couple of my son's like to make their own jerky. One jerks when he gets a deer, makes deer jerky...There are a lot of things to can and if one knows how, like another freeper said up thread, you spend all your time canning once the season starts....I quit canning tomato's etc when we purchased the farm...It was easier to just freeze tomatoes and peppers etc. Never had any luck with corn still on the cob...It always came out of the freezer and turned to mushy cob. But off the cob it freezes well...tastes better when you do it yourself also....I cannot stand fruit in the grocery store, it has no taste.But pluck it off your own tree, and the juice runs down your chin.....yummy
One year I had a pear in a coke bottle, no one knew how I did it....easy. Right after its done flowering, and has a tiny fruit, put a bottle over it and it grows in the bottle.. sometimes you have to tie the bottle to the branch...works with pears and peaches, I didn't have any apple tree's on the farm....To the little kids you become an instant genius....LOL
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