I do my best and buy about half my food from local farmers (and that isn’t easy in northern Ontario, especially during winter) … a bit expensive, but so is buying from the grocery store too, so it works out.
I live in the suburbs so Sprouts is the closest I get to “local”. I keep chickens and a garden but most of my food comes from Kroger. It is what it is.
Every year I grow more food than the previous year. Someday I’m hoping to grow most of my non-meat items and then fork over the money for local organic meat and freeze it.
I’m no good with crops, but our salad/salsa garden is successful.
If you’re allowed them, laying hens are stupid easy to keep. I don’t do roasters because we have a 5 bird limit in our suburb and honestly harvesting chickens is messy and time consuming.
E: oh, and free range eggs will absolutely ruin you for regular eggs. It’s like the difference in one of your tomatoes and the ones from the grocery.
I’ve had multiple unsuccessful attempts at a garden but two successful attempts with livestock: Pigs and chickens. It’s helpful that they make noise when there’s something wrong.
+1 for free range eggs. Plus there’s no bugs in your yard. Where I live now I can’t keep chickens but I’m allowed to have ducks, so I think I’ll do that in the spring.
Gardening isn’t all that complicated. Plants need water, nutrients and sun. The chicken manure you have is great for a garden. If you have clean wood ashes, scatter them around. Timing when you plant is also important - too early, when the soil is cold may prevent germination, while planting too late may put plants into a dry spell.
Above all, visit your garden for a few minutes each day to see if it needs some action like watering, weeding or bug remediation. Finally, keep your soil loose. Don’t over-till though.
BTW, I do not plow, till or do much weeding because I use a sand and mulch approach. It can sometimes be tricky.
You can still take steps to undermine the system while your forced participation is taking place. You could try local farmers markets, used goods, and the always fruitful five finger discount.
Very true. You can also decide not to pay for IP which is a lie anyway and freely watch and listen to and read whatever you like, play all the games that are not gambling dens in a box and use libre software whenever you can and most importantly tell all your friends about it.
(Under capitalism it’s profits over people. Profits over feeding people. How could you ever justify food insecurity in a country like the US otherwise?)
You first. I like food
I do my best and buy about half my food from local farmers (and that isn’t easy in northern Ontario, especially during winter) … a bit expensive, but so is buying from the grocery store too, so it works out.
I live in the suburbs so Sprouts is the closest I get to “local”. I keep chickens and a garden but most of my food comes from Kroger. It is what it is.
I gotta go to work.
Every year I grow more food than the previous year. Someday I’m hoping to grow most of my non-meat items and then fork over the money for local organic meat and freeze it.
I’m no good with crops, but our salad/salsa garden is successful.
If you’re allowed them, laying hens are stupid easy to keep. I don’t do roasters because we have a 5 bird limit in our suburb and honestly harvesting chickens is messy and time consuming.
E: oh, and free range eggs will absolutely ruin you for regular eggs. It’s like the difference in one of your tomatoes and the ones from the grocery.
I’ve had multiple unsuccessful attempts at a garden but two successful attempts with livestock: Pigs and chickens. It’s helpful that they make noise when there’s something wrong.
+1 for free range eggs. Plus there’s no bugs in your yard. Where I live now I can’t keep chickens but I’m allowed to have ducks, so I think I’ll do that in the spring.
Gardening isn’t all that complicated. Plants need water, nutrients and sun. The chicken manure you have is great for a garden. If you have clean wood ashes, scatter them around. Timing when you plant is also important - too early, when the soil is cold may prevent germination, while planting too late may put plants into a dry spell. Above all, visit your garden for a few minutes each day to see if it needs some action like watering, weeding or bug remediation. Finally, keep your soil loose. Don’t over-till though.
BTW, I do not plow, till or do much weeding because I use a sand and mulch approach. It can sometimes be tricky.
We ended up with some Easter ducks and now everyone prefers duck eggs. They are more consistent winter layers too.
Many people do not know this but it is true.
You can still take steps to undermine the system while your forced participation is taking place. You could try local farmers markets, used goods, and the always fruitful five finger discount.
Very true. You can also decide not to pay for IP which is a lie anyway and freely watch and listen to and read whatever you like, play all the games that are not gambling dens in a box and use libre software whenever you can and most importantly tell all your friends about it.
just Gonna leave this here since you mentioned it… https://github.com/recloudstream/cloudstream
Thats pretty awesome. Thanks for mentioning it.
I also like food, which is why I hate capitalism
(Under capitalism it’s profits over people. Profits over feeding people. How could you ever justify food insecurity in a country like the US otherwise?)
In a capitalist society, farms produce food to make money, not to feed people.
Watch this…
https://youtu.be/PaASqPnpq5Y