Would you produce your own food?

Would you grow and raise your own food?

  • Yes

  • No

  • I have no idea how to make potato salad so I therefore have no choice

  • I would go to a liquid diet like @broncosmitty

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Yes, we do probably 50% now, and I have the space to do more. Just can’t grow a lot of fruits up here.
 
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Scrolling through thread titles, I quickly misread this one as “Would you produce your own porn.”
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Probably not but I get my pencils from Leonard Read anyway :wink:
 
we have a typical cul de sac lot, so about 15,000sf. On it we have 4 apple trees, 3 pears, a cherry, an plum and a nectarine. We have 3 large elderberry bushes, 3 rows of raspberries and 3 rows of blackberries. We have 2 beehives but no chickens or rabbits, etc. I would guess that 75% of our protein is deer or elk.

We have a two garden areas that and grow any combination of tomatoes, beans, squash, snow peas, herbs and others.

I’ve canned a lot of shit; lots of jam, applesauce, pears, chicken, deer and elk.

For the “extras”, we sell around 7 gallons of honey, 8-10 gallons of blackberries, 10-15 quarts of elderberries.

Taking all that into account, we are a family of 5 and that takes a shit ton of food. I don’t have the freezer space or canning jars to preserve all that and feel comfortable. I think we all “could” survive by making and growing our own shit but it would not be fun, exciting or enjoyable.
 
Kburjr said:
Can't be. It's immortal.
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We bought some from Home Depot and planted in a bed and it died.

I may or may not have accidentally hit it with Round Up or planted it where I had killed weeds with Round Up (my suspicion honestly). However that information will forever be hidden from my wife and I will allow her to continue to believe she is an utter failure at farming.
 
Wild Turkey said:
We bought some from Home Depot and planted in a bed and it died.

I may or may not have accidentally hit it with Round Up or planted it where I had killed weeds with Round Up (my suspicion honestly). However that information will forever be hidden from my wife and I will allow her to continue to believe she is an utter failure at farming.
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There's the mistake.
Never buy any plants at Lowes or Home Depot.....they always struggle and die.

Find a local nursery.
Don't spend years watching a plant struggle, only to die, and have wasted years, when a better plant would have grown in like you wanted.
 
We have a bed of chocolate mint that has grown from 4 plants to about 6 sq ft. We watch out for volunteers like watching bread rise.
 
outofyourmind said:
There's the mistake.
Never buy any plants at Lowes or Home Depot.....they always struggle and die.

Find a local nursery.
Don't spend years watching a plant struggle, only to die, and have wasted years, when a better plant would have grown in like you wanted.
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See we can't buy the stuff at the right place we aren't going to be able to pull this off at all.
 
Would I? No, had enough of that growing up. I hate weeding.

But I could do it if I had to.
 
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