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To: P8riot

Yep us too. I am planning to can as many tomatoes as I can. We can live on homemade pasta and tomatoes for a very long time and by varying the spices can make a vast array of different sauces. I have around 30# combined of several different flours in the freezer but it’s mostly Semolina. If I were braver I’d try dehydrating eggs but think I’ll just take my chances with being able to afford eggs. DFIL has chickens so might get lucky there.


5 posted on 06/08/2008 5:28:23 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: chris_bdba

I put in a 10,000 (yeah 100ftx100ft)vegetable garden this year, in addition to the chickens, rabbits, and the steer we are raising. Goats for milk. We’re OK.


8 posted on 06/08/2008 5:33:58 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: chris_bdba
I've been canning for years. We put in about 90 tomato plants of several varieties, lots of hot and sweet peppers, onions, garlic, beets, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, and broccoli this year. Usually can enough whole tomatoes, soups and sauces, and other veggies to last at least a year or 2.

And we have our own chickens too. They get to eat all of the leftovers from the garden along with the weeds and whatever they don't eat gets composted with the chicken manure.

27 posted on 06/08/2008 7:12:53 PM PDT by eggman (Democrat party - The black hole of liberalism from which no rational thought can escape.)
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