[Diana in Wisconsin]

Just let them try to stop us. :)

[AD from SpringBay]

Imagine if the vegetable gardens were treated like wages and the gardeners had to turn in 35-60% of their crops to the government, free of charge for those who did not grow their own.

[calex59]

My mother could grow anything, ANYTHING, when it came to food. She grew up on a farm and knew how to grow them. Corn, green beans, or anything you wanted eat. I, unfortunately, learned very little from her. She could even find mushrooms and tell you which ones were lethal and which ones weren't.

Nothing like her spaghetti that had wild mushrooms incorporated in the sauce.

I am so sorry I didn't listen to her, how to can, how to preserve, how to dry meat.

I leaned how to butcher animals(a good thing for survival)but disregarded the rest as "womans work". As you have probably figured out by now I am a male.

One of my biggest regrets of my life is that I did not pay attention to this woman who was a fountain of knowledge of how to survive without modern machines or government intervention!

However I am trying to relearn the things her and my aunts knew how to do without thinking about it!