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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FReepmail me if you want to know the new address for this thread as it continues off site.
Thanks to all who participated!
I’ll freemail you - and granny, please don’t leave FR. But do what you think is right.
I did a search at viaLibri and just bought this for $14.00. There were other very reasonable listings and some not so reasonable. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. This thread has proved expensive. :)
LOL!
If anyone is lurking and wants to find the new thread, email me at either of the following:
vdavisson at gmail dot com
vdavisson at yahoo dot com
See you soon, I hope!
Granny and I have started a new version of this garden/recipe/survival thread over at Yahoo.com. Just email me at
vdavisson at yahoo dot com
with your FReep handle, and I give you the new site address. Once you ask, I will approve your membership. We have 80 posts over there so far.
I think this thread will remain as is, but just in case, I have a copy of the thread in Word. It’s pretty big, but if you want a copy I can send it via YouSendIt.com. They allow big files without being limited by typical email attachment size limitations.
If you only posted once on the Survival thread and don’t know what this message is about, you can always browse through the posts, or contact me and I can tell you what post you came on the thread. Still confused? No big deal, just ignore this message.
See you over at the new thread, I hope!
Hey y’all! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
New thread?????
Thanks!
I still have not got around to making that bread yet!
I just read your post a little while ago and wondered that very thing!
Once you learn how to do it, you will have confidence and feel much better about your abilities.
Do you bake regular cakes? Those are trickier than bread. If you can make a cake, you can make bread.
It’s really not hard, have faith in yourself and make an easy recipe that calls for two packages of yeast.
Oh and save me a slice, I bet it will be heavenly. Save me a slice, LOL!
OMG!
I may rethink my donations here...
Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into this Granny... you too Vicky!
I'm astounded! This thread has helped many folks here at FR, including me. Actually, I'm pissed off! There is so much pathetic crap allowed to be posted here, and the AM pulls THIS thread! OMf'nG!
I'm going to need the URL for the new thread, so please send me it... Vicky, you have FRmail... Granny, this decision makes my heart hurt.
Well to be fair to FR, the thread is not dead or pulled, and neither of us is banned. I’d rather have the thread here than offsite, but this is their domain and they have the right to dictate policy. I don’t know what the guidelines are exactly, that’s the problem. We have to play by their rules, whatever they are.
hi, thanks for the heads up.
Thanks so much for the ping.
Happy New Year to all.
Post 8907; thanks for the ping.
Post #9340
Wow, Granny, sorry to hear. I will look for you at the yahoo groups site.
See you on the yahoo groups site. My time online is limited, but I’ll be there when I can. Thanks.
Ping.
Post 9345; how to get more info on the yahoo group, for you, JDoutrider.
Thanks Joya, I’m posting as fast as I can. No one can top Granny!
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