More likely an updated version of this:
Hopefully the tarring and feathering of traitors and useless politicians.
Does this look like a good deal? I’ve just acquired enough land for a real garden.
http://www.survivalseedbank.com/
More likely an updated version of this:
We have a large garden every summer and a flock of chickens year round. Love the fresh food but never figured a way to make money off it. Without a doubt we put much more money into both the garden and the chickens than we get out of them in food.
Kitchen Gardeners: http://www.kitchengardeners.org/
National Gardening Assn: http://www.garden.org/home
Burpee Seeds: http://www.burpee.com/
MasterGardening: http://mastergardening.com/
Harris Seeds: http://www.harrisseeds.com/
I like knowing what is in my food so growing my own veggies and canning them is wonderful. I’m seriously thinking about buying a second smaller canner so that when I make soup instead of part of it being thrown out because we can’t eat it fast enough, cannng the extra 2-3 quarts and not wasting as much as we do. The canner I have now cans 14 quarts at a time and is a little too large to drag out for only a few quarts.
I started two kinds of tomatoes, eggplants and cabbage today. And mr sneakers built an onion box this morning and we’ve got our onion sets in. He built a frame for strawberries. We’re doing several raised gardens because we have a few black walnut trees nearby.
Nothing wrong with a Franklin stove.
Pitch forks...
Added a "garlic bed" today to my garden. Never know when you might need garlic!! Got silver bullets... & wooden crosses.
Also planted variety of beans, tomatoes and squash. Fertilized the grapes before the rain came. Picked strawberries, & fresh eggs, for breakfast.
My life won’t be changing much. I married into a ‘farm family’ 15 years ago...and I grew a lot of food and herbs and flowers and fruit prior to that.
But Husband impressed the heck outta me with his garden while we were dating; it was a deal-maker. ;)
I’ve worked ‘in the biz’ for the past decade. Seed sales have been through the roof, and I predict my sales of all veggie plants will be very strong this season.
“Cultivators with years of experience worry that home gardeners lured by promises of big savings will burn out when they see the amount of labor required to get dollars from their dirt.”
BUT...this is something I warn each and every customer about. It’s work. Plain and simple. Producing food is WORK.
Funny...I haven’t had ANY customers from the local low-income housing that’s within walking distance of my garden center. Not even a community garden in their neighborhood, where they’re plenty of green space to be dug up. Go figure.
Guess when you can get the milk for free, why buy the cow?
Your Tax Dollars at work. :)
Cool! Something new to add to my CV!