DIY Home made foods. Post them up!

snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Actually, most of the food that is grown and sold at supermarkets - not just including wal-mart is grown in fields that are deficient in a whole wide range of minerals. Yes, you can fertilize plants with a 13-13-13 fertilizer and water them and they will grow - but the soil that they are grown in has been completely used up of all the minerals. Commercial farming does not concern themselves with this loss in mineral content of their produce. Also, something else that you haven't mentioned yet - is that most of the produce sold at supermarkets and such are picked while it is still green, and then artificially ripened. While crops are usually a monoculture - and taylored to be the same size, shape and texture - this leads not only to mineral deficiency but also to a tasteless product.
That's why I grow all of my own produce - pesticide free. I use a pound of solar salt per half an acre to put minerals back into the soil and use a 13-13-13 fertilizer disc'd in to the soil - that is now mainly compost from the previous years silage. Anyways, ... yes, I am a gardener too, not just a saltwater hobbyist. :D I have a B3030 tractor too. lol
 
travelerjp98

travelerjp98

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Lol Seth, now who sounds like the health nut?
What you just said is what I'm kinda trying to argue...
You know that I garden too!
 
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smallreef

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Farmers used to rotate crops on their acreage.. but now with the big companies owning the land they want money out of the dirt.. they dont care if its stripped... and that is why my grandpa sold his farm...
I will eventually have a 'mini farm' with some planted acreage and a few (very few) animals... thinking of doing a B&B working farm wherever we retire...
 
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siptang

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wow... we are going to see the down side to this very soon... sad..
 
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smallreef

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its just like with to much soy... boys under 12 should NOT be substituting all of their dairy with soy as it elevates estrogen.. if a boy drinks it exclusively how is his testosterone supposed to catch up for puberty?
 
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flower

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Originally Posted by smallreef http:///t/392620/diy-home-made-foods-post-them-up/40#post_3488250
Farmers used to rotate crops on their acreage.. but now with the big companies owning the land they want money out of the dirt.. they dont care if its stripped... and that is why my grandpa sold his farm...
I will eventually have a 'mini farm' with some planted acreage and a few (very few) animals... thinking of doing a B&B working farm wherever we retire...
You plan to work a B&B mini farm when you are in your late 60s to early 70s...???? Wow, you are optimistic. A word of advice, don't wait for retirement to do something you always wanted to do. Grab the bull by the horns and live your life in the here and now, because tomorrow is not promised.
 
snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Originally Posted by smallreef http:///t/392620/diy-home-made-foods-post-them-up/40#post_3488250
Farmers used to rotate crops on their acreage.. but now with the big companies owning the land they want money out of the dirt.. they dont care if its stripped... and that is why my grandpa sold his farm...
I will eventually have a 'mini farm' with some planted acreage and a few (very few) animals... thinking of doing a B&B working farm wherever we retire...
If you want to do that, you better start while you are young. There is not better time than the present. Working even a "mini" farm requires a lot of hard work and dedication. I know that once I get out of school I am getting a rural development loan and buying a house in the country. I don't mind a small drive - I just don't want neighbors and I want to have the ability to burn trash, cut wood and shoot guns when I need to.
 
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siptang

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Originally Posted by SnakeBlitz33 http:///t/392620/diy-home-made-foods-post-them-up/40#post_3488760
If you want to do that, you better start while you are young. There is not better time than the present. Working even a "mini" farm requires a lot of hard work and dedication. I know that once I get out of school I am getting a rural development loan and buying a house in the country. I don't mind a small drive - I just don't want neighbors and I want to have the ability to burn trash, cut wood and shoot guns when I need to.
+1 I want to do that now lol.
 
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smallreef

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Well... we wont be doing that until my husband retires.. what we are thinking is we have a set of friends that want to run a Bed and Breakfast... we'd like to have a small working farm to make goat cheeses and such, maybe 1 or 2 beef cows a pig and some chickens and quails....
SO... I'm hopefully going to have my CPA in 3 years and we are stuck here for another 5.5years... after that I think we may move back to WA and figure out what we are all doing :)
My husband can retire whenever he wants but he wants more out of his career and is happy to keep working for a few more years til all of our debt is paid off (other than another house) and I have my BSBA and CPA...and hopefully a few corp. clients that I can work for out of my home no matter what state i'm in...
 
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smallreef

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And my grandparents kept a running farm (30-50 cows, 5 pigs, chickens and about 30 acres of corn) until he was 70 years old... then they moved into town,lol SO I think im good for another couple of years til I start... and if we ever were unable to care for the animals or do what needed done we'd hire someone, lol
 
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