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Originally Posted by Blufire77
Sideshow Shaman I'm curious . . . . what experience do you have growing vegetables or producing meat?
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Lots. I've lived in the center of a city now for quite a few years. So all I have in the ground right now is asparagus and horse radish. These are on my fathers property which is virgin forest.
At age 2 my family moved into a farming community, heavily dairy too. A bit funny because I have never liked dairy. Anyway, the children's (me+others) daily chores included weeding the large garden, feeding the animals, etc. We also helped at the time of planting & slaughter. The fishing rule was, You catch it you clean it. We stayed there until i was 10.
The variety of plants and animals that we grew was fairly large. Food was also gathered from the forest, mushrooms, watercress, nettles, blueberries, etc. Bartering with farmers was good too. I still enjoy hanging out with the organic farmers and trading tips when I visit.
Funny thing i noticed a couple years ago. Went back to the swamp in the state forest where a huge amount of blueberries grow free for the picking. In the 70s when our whole family would go picking there were always other people out there. if you waited until the end of the season there might not be much left. This time when we went, not only was no one else out there, the bushes had not been picked at all for the entire season! People are really losing touch.
Thanks for asking Blufire :-)
It sounds like you have a pretty good knack for growing.
I feel that if everyone had to kill & butcher their own meat, many meat eaters would suddenly lose their appetite. It is important to honor the animals that are eaten. Modern slaughter houses are truly an abomination. My experience of knowing where my food comes from seems to be fairly unusual these days.
It also seems pretty obvious that meat has been heavily over-emphasized in western culture, and increasingly so in eastern cultures. So for the most part people really should, at least, cut back on the sheer volume of meat consumed.
Everyone here should realize by now that the modern food supply has been highly, purposely, contaminated. That goes double for supermarket meat.
Beef!
it's what you're programmed to eat.
