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ALL FOOD IS GROWN AT GROCERY STORE

4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
This is what my grown kids think. They laugh at me every spring when I start plowing.I raise a rather large garden every year,I enjoy the work.I believe the day will come when food will be scarce and you better know how to survive on your own. No I am not paranoid,I BELIEVE IT PAYS TO BE PREPARED!!!

"It was like that when I got here".
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My family always had a small garden which always appeard to be monstrous when it came time to pull the weeds. However, even a small garden will keep you feasting on vegetables that the grocery store can't beat. I live in an apartment now but I'm planning on getting a large planter that will take up about half my deck so that I can grow my own beans. Nothing like fresh-grown beans with that steak and potatoes.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    1 percent of this countries population feed this country and half the rest of the world!! I hope I live to see the day when everyone gets down on their knees and begs a farmer for something to eat!!!!!!! This country has never gone hungry and that's why you have that "my food comes from the grocery store" mentality. A couple of weeks ago there was a topic on here about the truckers having to pay to upgrade I-81 thru VA and how it wasn't fair to make the truckers pay for it. I had a reply to that thread and discussed the agricultural side of the argument. If you build more buildings, more roads, more houses,more anything there is one common denominator, everybody on the road, in the house, in the mall, in the office gets hungry!! Ya'll better respect the farmers because we feed everybody!!! GHD
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  • Rafter-SRafter-S Member Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't think you are paranoid. We have a 6000 square foot garden and the plan for next year is to double its size. We raise enough food for ourselves and a couple of other families. Do it without chemicals too. We can and freeze vegetables and enjoy the fruits of our labor all year. We also eat beef (without the chemicals) and hogs trapped in the creek bottoms. And my daughter has a bunch of range chickens that produce eggs you wouldn't believe.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was younger, I raised animals and had a 10,000 sq ft garden. Kept my parents busy freezing and canning, but they sure didn't mind. I don't have the time to do that now, but I could if I needed to do so. There is no comparison between fresh food and supermarket fare. And I agree w/ GHD; American agriculture is, diplomatically, under-appreciated.
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  • TeamblueTeamblue Member Posts: 782 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Never cuss a farmer on a full stomach."

    My hat is always off to our nation's farmers. Never before have so few fed so many for so little. God bless them each and every one.

    Justice through Valor 1*
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    4wheeler:

    'sides that, it's just plain fun to grow stuff.

    I'm an apple grower. 15 bushels of grade A apples off two trees last year. And they are the 'Delicous' variety, one red and one gold. Not supposed to grow here. Oh yeah.


    Clouder..
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Goes back to what I said sometime last year. Unless people have experienced some kind of hardship they are simply unable to appreciate what they have. My uncle told me a story about his childhood (1940's in Austria) and they went into the woods looking for an apple tree just to have something to eat.

    Hey farmers, thanks!

    G36

    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Whiteclouder---apples and peachs are raised in this neck of the woods. They are good.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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