Posted on 01/29/2009 1:58:59 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Believe me, this isn't going to 'create jobs.' Most people would quit after one DAY of the physical labor that growing food entails.
I swear, in my next life, I am teaching people basic survival skills. Gardening, cooking from scratch, baking bread, sewing, small animal husbandry, etc. So many are utterly HELPLESS...and just where Mother Government wants them! :(
Gardening & Foodie Ping!
Vote here, if you’d like. Farmers are listed by state on the left of the page:
Most people have no idea of the LABOR that goes into growing their food! Evidently, growing it is supposed to be as easy as going to the Farmer’s Market and picking through until you find what you want! BWAHAHA
Can I be on your teaching team?! LOL Just this am as I was driving to work, two dj’s were “discussing” cows. I swear to you, one of the dj’s admitted that he did not know that milk came from female cows, nor did he know that dairy cows and beef cattle were seperate critters. Shaking head.
Had a customer come in a couple weeks ago and wanted to know where she could get her chickens processed—because “back home” she could get them slaughtered and cleaned for $5. I just looked at her and told her there weren’t any slaughter houses around here, most people killed/cleaned their own. She left. I’m left thinking—you raised these chickens to “save money”, you’ve fed them for months, and now you’re going to pay somebody to off them? Why not just buy them at the store?
Gonna raise some water melons and blackeye peas???
Reckon he’d eat them?
Obama just wants to be able to watch some white folks do the dirty work from his perch in the big house.
Probably - as long as the black eyes don’t have pork in them.
No pork?! They really taste like dirt then! LOL
It hasn’t been too bad, actually. It stopped snowing on us for a while, then got really, really cold. I have the day off, so I’ve been out in the sunshine with the dogs today as much as possible.
We totally missed the bad storm that went through the mid-section of America this past week. Thank God! :)
This upcoming week it’s to be above freezing for the first time since January 4th. That will be a welcome relief. :)
Remember those horrid cartoons of Condi Rice as President Bush’s lackey? Those STILL burn me up!
Of course now that ‘Mr. Cool’ is President, we’ll have NONE of that. Yeesh!
Where was *back home*?
Garden Ping...........
Y’all gotta read Diana’s comments in Post #1
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Oy vey.
How’d you guess?! Daddy’s people are Welsh and Cherokee from the mountains of NC. They moved to and through Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, back to Ohio, and I ended up on the coast o NC!
BEP taste like hot dirt in the summer. Beets taste like cool moist dirt in the spring when you first start plowing. I happen to like dirt. :)
Oh. Her “back home”! Up north somewhere. Definitely not a local!
You can’t teach what people don’t want to learn.
Most of the people I know who have any inclination towards self sufficiency came to it later in life and only after facing a prolonged power outage. Sitting in the dark and cold does wonders for clarity of thought.
There’s a wealth of information available on the net to anyone who has the slightest desire to learn to do those things you listed. Here are a couple of web addresses to information you and others might find useful.
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
http://survive.urbanbushpeople.org/
There’s some good things and some crap, but I’ll leave it up to anyone interested in downloading and reading the files to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
Enjoy!
I guess the cartoon of watermelons growing in the front yard of the White House wasn’t so far off...
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