Believe me, this isn't going to 'create jobs.' Most people would quit after one DAY of the physical labor that growing food entails.
I swear, in my next life, I am teaching people basic survival skills. Gardening, cooking from scratch, baking bread, sewing, small animal husbandry, etc. So many are utterly HELPLESS...and just where Mother Government wants them! :(
Gardening & Foodie Ping!
Most people have no idea of the LABOR that goes into growing their food! Evidently, growing it is supposed to be as easy as going to the Farmer’s Market and picking through until you find what you want! BWAHAHA
Can I be on your teaching team?! LOL Just this am as I was driving to work, two dj’s were “discussing” cows. I swear to you, one of the dj’s admitted that he did not know that milk came from female cows, nor did he know that dairy cows and beef cattle were seperate critters. Shaking head.
Had a customer come in a couple weeks ago and wanted to know where she could get her chickens processed—because “back home” she could get them slaughtered and cleaned for $5. I just looked at her and told her there weren’t any slaughter houses around here, most people killed/cleaned their own. She left. I’m left thinking—you raised these chickens to “save money”, you’ve fed them for months, and now you’re going to pay somebody to off them? Why not just buy them at the store?
Obama just wants to be able to watch some white folks do the dirty work from his perch in the big house.
Garden Ping...........
Y’all gotta read Diana’s comments in Post #1
You can’t teach what people don’t want to learn.
Most of the people I know who have any inclination towards self sufficiency came to it later in life and only after facing a prolonged power outage. Sitting in the dark and cold does wonders for clarity of thought.
There’s a wealth of information available on the net to anyone who has the slightest desire to learn to do those things you listed. Here are a couple of web addresses to information you and others might find useful.
http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
http://survive.urbanbushpeople.org/
There’s some good things and some crap, but I’ll leave it up to anyone interested in downloading and reading the files to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
Enjoy!
I guess the cartoon of watermelons growing in the front yard of the White House wasn’t so far off...
Oh gag. Now it’s going to ruin my fun gardening.
I’ve been gardening for decades because I like it. Now everyone is going to think I’m doing it because of obama.
Puke....
I hate having people think that I’m following the crowd.
>:(
I don't make long range plans these days! The Constitution was always my guarantee, but it doesn't mean a thing today!
I hereby nominate Roscoe Filburn.
With security and all, it ought to come in at about $30k/cucumber.
...journalist Michael Pollan... suggested replacing five acres of the White House's South Lawn with an organic fruit and vegetable garden.Thanks gabz.
$200,000 income per acre??????
Incredible.
Been wanting to buy my fathers farm. But frankly I can’t find a way of financing and paying for it.
But if that $200k is for real, there is a chance. But somehow I just can’t believe it to be true. Veggies are not that profitable.
You are so right. I’ll never forget the scene: walked into a room and my daughter was holding a phillips head screwdriver in one hand and a flat head screwdriver in the other hand and she was giving her late twenties, Masters Degree boyfriend instructions in how to use screwdrivers.
That boy couldn’t do anything, even paint. Relationship didn’t last.