Raising Food

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It isn't easy, working on building a greenhouse next. Lots of new plants started, 50 potato hills, 12 hill each of cantaloupe, cucumber, squash, zucchini, and watermelon. 4 rows of beans two large rows of okra. A dozen pepper and tomato plants ready to plant along with 6 to 8 of each already producing. My old Bolens and Monkey Wards helped a bunch.

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Just got in from the garden and field, weeding, mixing mulch, planting seeds in containers, put a tailgate on the tilt trailer and finished up the back side, built cages for ten tomato plants installed pavers as a sidewalk inside and outside gates to front and back door, installed two rain barrels, mowed two acres and watered all the garden before dark. Going to watch Yellowstone as a treat.

[onlyhomelites]

Damn, I'm impressed and a bit jealous...someday I hope to be able to spend more time gardening and have more space to do it.

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Aug 14, 2018 22:09:28 GMT -5 onlyhomelites said:

Damn, I'm impressed and a bit jealous...someday I hope to be able to spend more time gardening and have more space to do it.

It's easy, just quit your job. I made 837.00 last month on eBay, 300.00 more pays every bill I have including food and gas.
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[RandyMac]

www.midwestgrowkits.com/Mega-Mushroom-Growing-and-Incubator-Kit

Any 'shroom growers here?

[jerseyhighlander]

Yah, what Leon said... I'm envious as well, but making plans for a location/lifestyle change very soon. Preferably before New Jersey sucks the life out of me.

Food always taste extra good when it comes from your own land and hard work. Looks like you've got good soil too.

[jerseyhighlander]

Aug 15, 2018 23:38:44 GMT -5 RandyMac said:

www.midwestgrowkits.com/Mega-Mushroom-Growing-and-Incubator-Kit

Any 'shroom growers here?

I have thought of that many times. Living in the heavily shaded woods, with really crappy soil, shrooms are one of the few things that do pretty well here. Only problem is the never ending feud with the wildlife about who they belong to. Once I move up north, I'll just make the wildlife part of the meal. Except the slugs, I am just not eating slugs.

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Aug 15, 2018 23:56:53 GMT -5 jerseyhighlander said:

Yah, what Leon said... I'm envious as well, but making plans for a location/lifestyle change very soon. Preferably before New Jersey sucks the life out of me.

Food always taste extra good when it comes from your own land and hard work. Looks like you've got good soil too.

Its not just the taste. Most store bought food is hybrid variety that has had its DNA altered. Its FrankenFood, no taste, no minerals or benefits to speak of. People are getting sicker because we aren't eating real food. It takes years to get a good crop from heirloom varieties, but you can plant the seed from the fruit (cant do that with any hybrid fruit) and it gets better every year. I use Basil and other herbs to word off pests and rubber snakes to deter birds.

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Things are growing, except weeds, I pick weeds daily

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[jerseyhighlander]

Looks great.

We get all of our produce from a CSA farm that we buy a yearly share of the output from. Our weekly trips lately have been bringing home roughly 30lbs of veggies, picked that morning. We stop at another farm on the way home from there and pick up our beef, pork, chicken, eggs & milk and we are set for the week. No intention of ever going back to the grocery store for that stuff.

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Thanks guys I really enjoy growing our own organic foods

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Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRjz8LDTB0&t=91s