Home gardening offers ways to trim grocery costs [Survival Today, an on going thread]

Dallas News.com ^ | March 14th, 2008 | DEAN FOSDICK

[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."

[JDoutrider]

Having a bad time at the yahoo site... mail starts loading and even being a new account is taking 30 or so minutes to load... my air card is like 40 up and 23 down, bad as dialup, but better than nothing which is what we have out here in the woods... nothing! That's why I haven't been on there!

F R U S T R A T I N G ! ! !

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

testing... testing

[upcountry miss]

I would say a lot are rethinking their donation by the slowness of the money coming in. I, for one am disgusted by this post from the AM.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Hi WPTG... we have moved the thread to Yahoo groups. In the meantime, Granny’s computer went down. Let me know via FReepmail if you want the new thread address.

[WestCoastGal]

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Ping

[Velveeta]

Hi All,

I never heard back from either Jim or the Admin Mod regarding our letter. Perhaps FReepmail wasn’t the best venue to try to get in touch.

I have hit “abuse” on this thread and sent a copy of our letter via abuse.

Hopefully, we’ll hear back soon.

Hugs to you all,
Vel

[Cindy]

Thanks Vel.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Jim would you please take a look this post 9,340 and reconsidered and apologize to NW_ arizona_granny. She has left FR and THAT is OUR lost.

Just a little history, Granny is a shut in, that lives alone and FR is all I think she lives for. This thread used by many on FR and has been my dinner more than one time, with many thanks from my husband.

The much more serious of her threads is the World Terrorism thread and you know what? I thought she was a little overreact when she posted the Communist Manifesto, but now I can see clearly that we are headed in that direction. Granny has far too much knowledge to let her slip away over this.

We have far more threads on FR that uses up tons of bandwidth
from zot thread to vanities.

This thread is more than just recipes, it also contains knowledge and wisdom of someone whom has had a long life sort of like your grandmother. Have you ever rung a chicken necks or even know how that day may come and granny can tell you how. Please take time to read more of the thread. My grandmother is dead and I wish I had listened to her more. So now I have granny.

Spamming FR
From Admin Moderator | 12/26/2008 6:39:01 PM PST read

Please **quit** spamming FR with the recipes...

Simply post the links. There’s absolutely no reason to post the content if you post the link to the content.

It’s wasting FR resources...

Thanks,

AM

[Admin Moderator]

I am sorry this took so long, but no one posted to the Abuse Reports where the moderators look most of the time. You are more than welcome to post recipes as you have been doing. I am sorry you were warned on a thread clearly about this sort of material.

[Gabz]

Over here folks!!!!!!!!!!!

[Velveeta]

Thank you very much, Admin Moderator.

[Velveeta]

Granny,

Your presence is requested here by many who love you.
Get that computer fixed and get back here!!!!

[Velveeta]

Champagne Celebration Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 oz Brandy
4 oz Champagne
1/2 oz Cointreau
1 cubes Sugar
Peychaud Bitters

Directions

Add Cointreau, Brandy and a sugar cube saturated with Peychaud Bitters to a champagne flute. Fill with your favorite champagne. Garnish with an orange twist.

Serve in a Champagne Flute

[samiam1972]

Ping to myself to browse later.

[yorkie]

We NEED you back, Granny,
Your Carriage is waiting!

[JDoutrider]

Well Done! Bravo Zulu! Davey!

[JDoutrider]

THANK YOU ADMIN MODERATOR!!!

[metmom]

Thank you. Granny is such a wealth of knowledge, much of which has been lost through recent generations. Through folks like her, we can hope to get some of that back and pass it on to our kids.

It’s more critical than ever, from what I can see of the way things are going. If what’s happened in the last week since obama got sworn in (and in and in) is any indication, we’re going to need all the help we can get.

And thank you granny. I’m looking forward to hearing from you again. Spring is coming (some day).