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Home gardening offers ways to trim grocery costs [Survival Today, an on going thread]
Dallas News.com ^ | March 14th, 2008 | DEAN FOSDICK

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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To: Uncle Ike

Lol! How to survive! Save yur old sneakers!


181 posted on 03/24/2008 8:05:59 AM PDT by djf
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To: Uncle Ike

We have 2 large rubbermaid tubs full of packages of beans and rice that we stored in a closet. They have been there since after 9-11 and never opened. Just something else our children and grandchildren will get a chuckle over when they clean out our house after we are gone.


182 posted on 03/24/2008 8:06:06 AM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: Uncle Ike

Okay, if a keyword is decided upon please let me know.


183 posted on 03/24/2008 8:07:13 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: toomanygrasshoppers

We think alike.

Years ago I just had an uneasy feeling and started stocking up on non perishable foods and a few med supplies.

I remember it crystal clear.
One week.
It was one week before 9/11

I kid you not.


184 posted on 03/24/2008 8:08:43 AM PDT by djf
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To: processing please hold; nw_arizona_granny; All

” Okay, if a keyword is decided upon please let me know. “

See my post #180 ;~)

Granny - maybe you could ping the list to it??


185 posted on 03/24/2008 8:09:23 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

As long as you’re updating your list, add me, also.


186 posted on 03/24/2008 8:09:50 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Uncle Ike

Now I really do have to go...

Starting another ****trail of breadcrumbs****


187 posted on 03/24/2008 8:11:02 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I jus' sets.........)
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To: nw_arizona_granny
You are on my...smile list.

How sweet, thank you. :)

Now if I don’t loose the paper, keep checking back, after I get some sleep, I will put up some new posts. and daily, if all goes as planned.

Will do. Being prepared is half the battle. Surviving it is the other half.

Thank you for being here.

You are more than welcome. Please keep up the good work. Many of us on FR fall under the ant and the grasshopper category.

188 posted on 03/24/2008 8:11:50 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold; Uncle Ike

I guess because we do a lot of fishing on a regular basis, I never thought of fishing gear in this way. You’re both correct fishing gear is as important as ammo or food.


189 posted on 03/24/2008 8:12:47 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Gabz; All

Thank you, I did not know there was a gardening thread, so I was no help at all.

You have children, do you know this site?

She is an author and artist, I visit to see her art work, you will find many pages to color and learning tools.

This is out of date, but it will give you an idea of what is there and would not hurt to have a few of her pages tucked away with crayons or colored pencils for emergency times.

Sign up for her newsletter and you will know when she changes the theme, for most of the important holidays.

granny

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It’s a pleasure to be in touch.

Sincerely,

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This message was sent by Jan Brett,

She is a nice person, before 9-11, we were writing to each other and I found her to be a fine person.


190 posted on 03/24/2008 8:13:27 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ... . Mark Twain)
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To: Uncle Ike
“Stinkbait”

I love it!

191 posted on 03/24/2008 8:15:46 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: djf

I’ve played out in my head what would happen if we lost the power grid in this country. No lights, communication, computers, water (most run on electric pumps), gasoline, etc. It would be suicide to try to go to the store. People would panic and you could get hurt. Cash registers would not work and there would be major looting. If you don’t have what you need prior to a disaster then you likely won’t get it for a long time. Stores will be cleaned out and no deliveries will be made. All you can safely do is hunker down and see how it all plays out.


192 posted on 03/24/2008 8:16:42 AM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("In technical terminology, he's a loon")
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To: processing please hold

When I tell my kids how we used to eat bacon grease sandwiches or butter, sprinkled with sugar ones they get a disgusting look on their faces.<<<

So did we.

I mix, honey, peanut butter and a little butter into a mixture and now use it on muffins and toast.

Keeps it from dripping down the arms.


193 posted on 03/24/2008 8:17:27 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ... . Mark Twain)
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To: djf
*snicker*

You bad, for shame. Hahahahahahaha

194 posted on 03/24/2008 8:17:34 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: nw_arizona_granny

Thanks for the links — I was not familiar with that site.

I keep art supplies of all kinds on hand one never knows when they will come in handy, and not just for the kids!!!!


195 posted on 03/24/2008 8:18:23 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: kalee

Thank you, your mothers tomato pie is a recipe that I will enjoy.

I am glad that you posted it.


196 posted on 03/24/2008 8:21:27 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ... . Mark Twain)
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To: Gabz
You’re both correct fishing gear is as important as ammo or food.

Yes it is. Hopefully lurkers on this thread will add it to their storage supplies. Nothing can be overlooked no matter how small it may appear to some.

197 posted on 03/24/2008 8:23:18 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: nw_arizona_granny; HungarianGypsy; Quix

Thanks for the thread, thanks for the ping.

(I meant this thread, Quix.)


198 posted on 03/24/2008 8:26:38 AM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: Joya

THANKS, ALL.


199 posted on 03/24/2008 8:29:21 AM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Gabz

Some people are born to work the soil, others are not.

For me, I could forget the world and see the promise that is in every seed.

Maybe we can interest more people into teaching the young to garden.

But to even suggest it, gets us lumped in with the tree sitters and that does no good.

I Think of Jeanette, who was staying with me in her 9th year, I had taken her to the doctor and not the other kids, so I suggested we stop at the nursery, she pitched a fit, but I stopped anyway.

As we were leaving she said to me “Aunt Ruth, I will go to the nursery with you anytime, I thought you were going to take me to nursery school”, so for one young lady, for an hour, there was another world, outside her own.

I can’t imagine living in town.


200 posted on 03/24/2008 8:30:01 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ... . Mark Twain)
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