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There's things that lots of folks just can't justify when it comes to food-price.
We do the 90/10 when it comes to eating and it seems to be a plan that works. (eat 90% of the time really well-10% not so)
This way the body can deal with the 10% quite well-where as the other way around the 10% good isn't going to help too much.
Apples are probably one of the best examples regarding taste-ourselves and like minded folks all say we can taste the difference between organic and a regular produced one.

Probably one of the grossest things I ever came across was a large plot for a local market garden.
It was across the 404 Hwy from the Buttonville Airport in the GTA.
I had plotted a homestead and it looked like a field, so I drove up to have a look and to seek out a permission.

I pulled up and walked to the edge of the site and it was covered in grey sewage effluent.
Now some folks would think this was ok, great fertilizer, nutrients for growing crops.

I drove by this location many times going up the freeway to other permissions and it vegetables were lush and green.....YAK!

Here's a quick chart (off our frig door:)) By "Dirty" she means Loaded with chemicals ! Judy is a Nut when it comes to food (what to eat & what not to eat)
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Argh! I don’t think there’s enough coffee to keep me awake today!


Roger, thanks for the lists! Good information.
 

WD,

Your retirement is off to a good start....a sleepless night and not enough coffee in the morning....:laughing7::laughing7::laughing7::laughing7:
 

Roger,

Just curious if you and the missus grow a garden in the summer. It's worth it for the flavor alone let alone any cost savings. We just use compost and some bagged manure that's it.
 

Roger,

Just curious if you and the missus grow a garden in the summer. It's worth it for the flavor alone let alone any cost savings. We just use compost and some bagged manure that's it.

LOL she has no luck at gardens .But she has over the years grown some tomatoes that probably cost $20.00 per pound when you figure it out :( LOL:BangHead::BangHead:
 

9AM ...blue skies...and 64 Degrees :) O yeah Baby :thumbsup::occasion14::hello2::occasion18:
 

LOL she has no luck at gardens .But she has over the years grown some tomatoes that probably cost $20.00 per pound when you figure it out :( LOL:BangHead::BangHead:

Roger it's never about the money.:laughing7:

My eggs are worth more than the $6.00 a dozen we get for them it doesn't even cover the feed costs, no wonder folks ask $8+ for the organic.

Now my berry patch will save me lots of money and time-each berry will be treated like a fragile Faberge egg-as what it has cost in time and putting it in those berries (if I even get one) will be savoured. :laughing7:

But growing/producing one's own food cuts the multi handling out of the picture.

Crack an egg into the pan when it's still warm from being laid-nothing fresher.

An unwashed egg will last 3 weeks on the counter-3 months in the fridge.

Back in the mid 70's I had a job at a chick hatchery-the little store across the street from where we lived was an easy for food. The owner and me struck up a chat about eggs and how long they lasted. He figured on the average the eggs he sold were 6-8 weeks old.

Well it's been 9 days for the hanging beef-another 12 before it's cut/ground up. Looking forward in boiling up the soup bones again for broth-we only took 30 lbs from the last stocker-and we ran out.....

Got a call yesterday that the April 21 Turkey chicks were sold out, now it's being bounced up to the May 19th hatching. Oh well they'll be prime for the Thanksgiving feast this year. Ordered up 500 lbs of Turkey starter to put some meat on their bones-:icon_scratch: just had a thought-maybe I should be eating that high protein feed as I could use a few extra on the bones.:laughing7:
 

9AM ...blue skies...and 64 Degrees :) O yeah Baby :thumbsup::occasion14::hello2::occasion18:

50 Degrees, grey, lights on, pouring cats and dogs, thundering, lightning. Oh ya......Yippee.
 

Roger it's never about the money.:laughing7:

My eggs are worth more than the $6.00 a dozen we get for them it doesn't even cover the feed costs, no wonder folks ask $8+ for the organic.

Now my berry patch will save me lots of money and time-each berry will be treated like a fragile Faberge egg-as what it has cost in time and putting it in those berries (if I even get one) will be savoured. :laughing7:

But growing/producing one's own food cuts the multi handling out of the picture.

Crack an egg into the pan when it's still warm from being laid-nothing fresher.

An unwashed egg will last 3 weeks on the counter-3 months in the fridge.

Back in the mid 70's I had a job at a chick hatchery-the little store across the street from where we lived was an easy for food. The owner and me struck up a chat about eggs and how long they lasted. He figured on the average the eggs he sold were 6-8 weeks old.

Well it's been 9 days for the hanging beef-another 12 before it's cut/ground up. Looking forward in boiling up the soup bones again for broth-we only took 30 lbs from the last stocker-and we ran out.....

Got a call yesterday that the April 21 Turkey chicks were sold out, now it's being bounced up to the May 19th hatching. Oh well they'll be prime for the Thanksgiving feast this year. Ordered up 500 lbs of Turkey starter to put some meat on their bones-:icon_scratch: just had a thought-maybe I should be eating that high protein feed as I could use a few extra on the bones.:laughing7:

Berry patch ? This is what I do with fruits of all types :)020.JPG002.JPG002.JPG002.JPG:occasion14::occasion14::occasion14:
 

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Jim,

Yep lots of questionable practices used in what's called modern agriculture. I've heard that some farmers use liquified manure to fertilize their crops, problem being it's not been composted to kill any possible pathogens.

Then people wonder why there's recalls on lettuce and other leafy greens due to e coli, etc....

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2018/05/no-quick-or-easy-answers-for-using-raw-manure-on-food-crops/

Good article Bill.

I'm not sure if you watch any of the Market Place shows. They had one on lettuces and contamination/recalls on Romaine. Interesting theory that the Yuma stock yards are right next to the lettuce crops with a water cane separating the two-one wonders why there's a problem.
Factory beef-yup the supermarket/fast food's dream supplier.
The brown area is the stockyard. The population of Yuma is 91,000. According to the 2015 Arizona State Agriculture Overview, there are about 911,000 cattle in the area. That's roughly ten to one — cows to people.Feb. 5, 2017

I remember driving through from the panhandle of TX-in through Oklahoma and the air conditioner in the /76 Tbird gave up. 100+ degrees and I was a gagging on the smell coming through the windows and vents.
When i stopped for fuel I asked the attendant "What's that smell"?
"Oh those are the stockyards"
Must be a tad hard living next door to that
"Oh no sir-those are 60 miles away up north"
WHAT!
 

What is that now-something high proof?

I was told yesterday that my 200 strawberry plants and the 120-4yr old high bush blueberry plants will be still a couple of weeks away from picking them up. 800km/500mile round trip-yippee a road trip.
 

37 and wet out not really rain not really snow, moisture. I have a steam juicer. A3 part pan you put on a stove burner.
The first holds water, fill to mark the second is the juice catcher, it has a bunt cake pan shape, tall in the middle and open, the third pan is tall and you fill up with whatever fruit your juicing.
Boil the water and steam go up to fruit and the juice runs into catch and than put to a jar one the counter. It works slick. We have 2 of them going when the plumbs, choke cherrys, currents and grapes are ready
 

Mornin all!

Stopped at the farm store for some dogfood for some of the dogs...
I avoided looking at chicks (chicken chicks , not human chicks...).

At check out there was a stack of flyers (papers , not flying fowl) with a picture of a chicken on them.
Thinking it was a chick price list I peered at one.
Hens ready to lay , $14.00 (?) each.
First I've seen that advertised at a store.

Coops are priced outrageously online locally.
Someone is making money...
I've joked online discussing folks getting started with a flock when they get excited about thier first egg and I suggest it should be bronzed for the cost it took...
But it's getting crazy on cost.
Ah well. Fresh sassy eggs anyways.

I suggested three chickens , and was told we don't eat enough eggs.
I replied , the dogs can eat eggs.
My feed bill is about ridiculous for the dogs. Why not add chickens too. L.o.l...
 

37 and wet out not really rain not really snow, moisture. I have a steam juicer. A3 part pan you put on a stove burner.
The first holds water, fill to mark the second is the juice catcher, it has a bunt cake pan shape, tall in the middle and open, the third pan is tall and you fill up with whatever fruit your juicing.
Boil the water and steam go up to fruit and the juice runs into catch and than put to a jar one the counter. It works slick. We have 2 of them going when the plumbs, choke cherrys, currents and grapes are ready
Now that sounds like "The cat's ass" Fat.
Post up a link/pic
My head is working on the possibilities.
 

Its 2 o'clock and 80 degrees .Just finished mowing and I need a cold one...or 6 or :):occasion14:
 

On Wikipedia...Check out steam juicer or steam extractor. That pic is exactly what I use. After reading the info about, it says it pasteurizes juice with this process also.
 

My new garden addition...

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Learning a new language...

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Meanwhile...in Miami....

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