Posted on 08/22/2009 12:49:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I love Eliot Coleman! His wife, Barbara Damrosch, deserves a lot of credit, too. she works as hard as he does on that farm!
Her book, ‘The Garden Primer’ is a must-have for any newbie gardener. She also has a good one on raising chickens; I forget the title. :)
I have a small, unheated greenhouse, and Husband is building me a cold frame this fall. I’m going to try really hard to keep growing greens as far as I can into the winter this year. :)
“Having a garage sale would be classy and sooooo compassionate.”
They can’t. Hillary! made off with all the good stuff when she left, LOL!
I live in California land of Fruits and Nuts, of course I have heard of organic crap that taste like well, crap.
Oh good grief --- you are sooooooooooo bad woman!!!!!!!!
ROFLMSS!!!!
Time to start dinner: baked stuffed clams, oven "fried" potatoes, and tomato salad.
I broke down and bought the clams from our friend the clam man, the taters came from a friend's field, and the maters came from under my kitchen window!!!
Wonder who really keeps that garden at the White House. I know who does not temd it except in front of television cameras.
What a joke the Obamas are.
I do know there is a statute against such practices. It was made just to stop this sort of stuff and turning DC into an extension of the plantations.
Want proof. Just south of the Washington Monument there is an open air fish market. About a dozen vendors hawk their products from boats. You heard me right, from boats. These use mini-barges in the Potomac river tied up to the bank so they don't have an open market on land.
I don't know the name of it but I just go there almost every time when in DC. Great place.
The permit for this effort will be turned down.
Oh wait, this is gonna be "Obama Patch" so it will be OK.
I don't disagree that you can save money and get better nutrition from home cooked meals. I can make better, cheaper spaghetti than anything Chefboyardee or Hormel can come up with. But there's no denying the fact that convenient "junk" food is usually cheaper than convenient healthy food.
Where I live, cheap apples are $1.59-$1.79lb. Oranges can sometimes be .79each. If you've got 3 kids...are you going to make them split 2 apples or share a $2 bag of chips? For $2.50, you can get a whole tray of Oreo cookies. For $3, I can make homemade chocolate chip cookies. lol
But if Obama is going to preach nutrition and good food choices, then he needs to understand that not everyone can afford lobster on beds of arugula with a $9trillion + dollar deficit looming over their heads.
After private healthcare insurance companies demise, are supermarkets next?
Exactly. How many gardens did they cultivate whilst residing in Chicago?
All this is duplicitous PR to make the Obamas appear to be the opposite of what they actually are.
another conservative spoil sport trying to ruin the "feel good" story of the year.........
The verbose one will sit back and shut up. He will keep his powder dry. And it is best that he not unleash the fury that exists within his gentle gardening soul. Rage has not been seen. This administration ... such an inept word for the bunch of 60’s dropouts, dope infused communist bag fastard’s ...that has publicly made a mockery of our country, has made this one speachless. Again, I am a keg of powder, vowing to keep my powder dry. The warning is clear .. one spark is about to set off a conflagration one has never seen. Ooops .. the verbose one has struck again
Yeah. They’ll love the veggies coming out of the White House metal and sludge contaminated garden.
LOL!
Next will be the collective farms... All hail Obummer!
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Only if current history is an indication of future success.
This administration is clueless.
Wait a second... Wasn’t there a law passed regarding regulations for those farms choosing to participate in Farmer’s Markets? I’m guessing the WH won’t have to abide by those regulations, will they?
Depends on what you want and/or how involved you wish to get.
I'm cooking a boneless pork roast tomorrow (5.99/lb, on sale for 3.99/lb - managers special red tag 1.99/lb) in the crockpot because it is too bloody hot to do it otherwise. It's going into the crockpot with handfuls of concord grapes and a bit of apple juice.
Raisins are simple to make, especially if you have a dehydrator, as is jam. I don't bother trying to make grape jelly because it is too much trouble, but the jam is simple.
But there's no denying the fact that convenient "junk" food is usually cheaper than convenient healthy food.
And that is EXACTLY why I am in favor of what I said earlier about cooking and budgting classes. When done properly healthy food is by FAR cheaper than convenience food. For 20 bucks I can make enough lasagna for 6 meals for my family of 3, and have leftovers for 2 more meals for the family. IOW I can feed the 3 of us 18 times for 1/3 the cost of feeding a family of 3 Stouffer's lasagna 6 times.
I will pick this back up when I finish serving and eating the dinner of baked clams, potatoes, and tomatoes that cost me less than $5 for the 3 of us.
There are no farmers markets in Baltimore or DC? I find that hard to believe.
Don’t feel bad about that last part - we just applied this week... Although I’m crossing my fingers cause hubby has a big interview (2nd with all the bosses this time) on Monday... Maybe we won’t need it after all. When I heard how much we were eligible for though my mouth hit the floor. I haven’t spent that much on groceries in a LONG time — even with 6 mouths to feed! I told my husband - if I keep shopping the same way we’ll be eating like KINGS!
As you said, a big part of how far the money goes is knowing how to shop, and how to cook. I’m grateful to my mom, and Grandma (and 4-H) for teaching me those things...
I remember a while back (probably 20 years now) where there was a big to-do about the prices in Chicago’s inner-city supermarkets in the low-income areas vs. the higher income areas. They figured that since these people usually didn’t have access to cars and the like that they’d take advantage of their being “locked” into the neighborhood to do their shopping... It’s definitely nothing new re: price gouging in some low-income areas. So, in some ways you’re definitely right — not much choice for some in order to improve their situation. It’s too bad they can’t put together some sort of co-op in their neighborhoods. I remember my Mom being part of one when I was young — incredible savings, and it was fun when everything got delivered to our home to “host” the pickups. Don’t know if the laws would allow that nowadays though either...
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