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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Colds, of course, occur much more frequently. According to the American Lung Association, “Adults get an average of two to four colds per year, mostly between September and May.” (Children get six to eight.)
This adds up. According to the CDC, “In the course of a year, people in the United States suffer 1 billion colds.”
You can get a cold by touching your eyes or nose after you touch surfaces with cold germs on them. You can also inhale the germs. Symptoms usually begin 2 or 3 days after infection and last 2 to 14 days. Washing your hands and staying away from people with colds will help you avoid colds.
There is no cure for the common cold. For relief, try
* Getting plenty of rest
* Drinking fluids
* Gargling with warm salt water
* Using cough drops or throat sprays - but not cough medicine for children under four
* Taking over-the-counter pain or cold medicines - but not aspirin for children
Earlier this year, if you remember, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended against giving over-the-counter cold and cough medicines to children under the age of two. In general, this stuff needs to be stored where curious little people can’t get to it. Says the CDC:
An estimated 7,000 children ages 11 and younger are treated in hospital emergency departments each year because of cough and cold medications, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately two-thirds of those incidents were due to unsupervised ingestion (i.e., children taking the medication without a parent?s knowledge).
Read the complete study published earlier this year in the journal Pediatrics.
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Bookmarked.
“Bank runs/Bank closings are coming.”
Prophetic.
“Have you ever eaten a cold bacon grease sandwich?”
Dad was a poor preacher in a small rural town. We ate bacon grease on toast instead of butter. But the cold thing sounds ikky. (Now, I’m finding out that bacon grease can make a lot of things mighty tasty!)
This is an interesting thread.. begun months ago.
Does anyone know anything about a “rain barrel drain system”? Is it simply for extra non-potable water, or does/can it get complicated to filter, cleanse, etc.?
A house on our “to see” list for retirement lists this feature.
1. Infant Death Prompts Recall To Repair 600,000 Drop Side Cribs By Delta Enterprise; Spring Peg Failure Can Cause Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09016.html)
2. Infant Death Prompts Recall to Repair 985,000 Delta Enterprise Drop Side Cribs; Missing Safety Pegs Can Cause Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09017.html)
3. Defects Identified by CPSC Early Warning System Prompt Crib Warning to Parents; CPSC to consider rulemaking to address crib defects (http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09018.html)
Check your pings!
Check your pings!<<<
I am afraid to ..........I am a week or more behind on them.
LOL and thanks.
Does anyone know anything about a “rain barrel drain system”?<<<
Rain? what is that? Not in Arizona.
I do not have personal knowledge of using the barrels, one of the Yahoo lists that I sometimes read, does talk about them, if I can figure out which one it is, I will send you the link.
Anyone else work with these?
Thanks for visiting the thread, you are welcome here.
I try to post a variety and am thinking that the posts that I posted yesterday, had your rain barrels on them, check some of the links.
“Bank runs/Bank closings are coming.”<<<
We did not really know what was coming, when this thread started, but a lot of us could feel it in the air.
Then there are a few who really do know how to read the signs....As does JD.
Welcome, come in and visit, when you have time.
Thanks for the bump.
Hope you are safe.
LOL, Jelly will top beads any day.
I thought you might have a few beads around.
Miss working with them.
Did you know that if you boil all the meat off a snake, and put them in the sun, they make a wonderful bead, with a natural opening?
My friend Mary made mine, we had to kill the snakes, they wanted in the house.
Rattlesnakes and I do not agree on our living quarters.
She would throw them in the chicken pen, after killing them and let the chickens eat the meat, then boil the bones to clean them and string and hang in the sun.
If it was fresh and fat, she dressed and and froze the meat for visitors, who wanted to eat it.
Not i.
The jelly came out good! I like the purple better than the bronze. More of a grape taste.
Snakes? Shudder I leave them alone if they’re out in the woods or non poisonous. if they’re in the yard and deadly, they’re toast. We have copperheads, rattlers, moccasins/cottonmouths. And yes, they’re on the endangered list. They’re definitely on the endangered list if they’re in my yard!
Never thot about making beads out of their bones. Never even considered eating them! Yuck!
Yes to the reg beads! I have tons! LOL
Have been sewing, think I told you, for my baby sister’s baby, due next month. Haven’t sewn in a while.
Don’t know anything about rain barrel drain systems. Had rain barrels when I was a kid. You could get in a lot of trouble playing in them—I remember that! LOL
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Don’t know anything about rain barrel drain systems. Had rain barrels when I was a kid. You could get in a lot of trouble playing in them—I remember that! LOL<<<
Yes, we had them when I was a kid, but all I remember is they thought the rainwater was good for the hair.
Here, there are lots of folks, that do not have a water supply and they bury 2,000 water tanks, which are filled by a water trucking company or by hauling it in 500 gallon tanks....
Sewing and jelly, you are busy.
If I were hungry enough, snake might be food, they say it is a cross between chicken and tuna, but I am not interested.
LOL, for several years, Mary thought that I was a vegetarian, as I did not eat meat at her house.........too risky, as she ate any type she could get.
Keep canning, you will need it, in this unsettled world of today.
By the way, I tried out that See's candy Fudge recipe, but added a bunch more milky chocolate chips to it (along with the semi chocolate)... Whew! The recipe made 5 POUNDS!
I gave most of it away... I'm getting calls from strange women propositioning me! LOL!
It DID come out better than I thought it would!
A good group for survival information and they do answer questions:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simplyoffgrid/
This is a member’s post, shows promise, it is only a day or so old.
Hi folks, I have decided to try my hand creating a free online
monthly newspaper just for us homesteaders, gardeners, and off-
gridders.
I need your help and I am asking (begging) for articles, stories,
pics, jokes, classifieds, how-to’s and anything you can contribute
to get the first monthly issue out by January 2009.
You can see the rough ouline here:
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This will be a completely free online newspaper and classifieds are
also free if you have something to trade or sell.
You can send your submissions to me at homesteadernews@yahoo.com
I will do my best to print every article that is in good taste and
relevent to homesteading. There are sections on homestead animals,
gardening, building, solar and wind power, current events,
homesteader cooking, and lots more.
Please help us get this going and if you are a group owner or have a
link to your favorite homesteader groups please add them to the link
page on the newspaper and lets help each other.
Thank you all!
Thank you. It will take forever to read all of this, but I am going to give it a shot!
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