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Topic: Ever want to grow all of your own food?
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Padre35
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posted March 27, 2013 10:00 PM
  
This idea, growing all of the food you'd need for a year just sort of appeals to me and I'm curious if it does to anyone else?I'm friends with Chefs/Cooks/Expediters at several uptown eateries and we talk food all of the time. What surprises me is they lament they have to use the mass food distributors to cook with and not local ingredients for the most part. IP: Logged |
T
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posted March 27, 2013 11:24 PM
Only every day!I think it will happen someday when i have the land and supplies and knowledge needed. Looking forward to it.  For now, i will grow some cherry tomatoes, cucumber and herbs. IP: Logged |
T
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posted March 27, 2013 11:25 PM
I'd love a garden that could supply salad greens for a whole season or two. Been looking into that lately.IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted March 27, 2013 11:33 PM
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Originally posted by T:
I'd love a garden that could supply salad greens for a whole season or two. Been looking into that lately.
http://lifehacker.com/5992390/regrow-fresh-heads-of-romaine-lettuce-from-c hopped-down-lettuce-hearts How to use Romaine Hearts to grow your own supply indoors, rather easily really. I sort of like foraging, for example we have a bumper crop of spring onions coming up and all it takes is bend over and harvest the things. A sort of cool trick for pickling veggies is to use pickle jars that still have the brine in them..just wash your veggies and toss them in and wait about 2 weeks. Also learning how to make a sort of fruit brandy/wine that really just requires using the scraps, mason jars, burying then straining the pulp. You can take extra herbs, add them to an empty wine bottle, cover completely in a depth of three inches and wait a couple of months..herb infused oil that is really good.
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somethingexcellent
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posted March 27, 2013 11:36 PM
I want to garden!!!! Seriously have my own little patch of fruits and vegetables. Sounds to artsy and cute! In general I just wanna survive on plants...doing a bad job of it right now lol!
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Padre35
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posted March 27, 2013 11:40 PM
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Originally posted by somethingexcellent:
I want to garden!!!! Seriously have my own little patch of fruits and vegetables. Sounds to artsy and cute! In general I just wanna survive on plants...doing a bad job of it right now lol!
Hah! As a general rule, I eat veggie (not vegan) but admit..like the carnivore food as well Cheapy meal is to take the brined veggies and chop them, boil up some pasta and toss with that herb infused oil and some fresh bread (if you have it)..yummy and so easy to make. I'd personally like a bread machine as fresh bread is like crack for me...  IP: Logged |
Dee
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posted March 28, 2013 12:42 AM
I have been wanting to grow all my own food for awhile now. The growing season here is so short there's still snow on the ground.Im always checking out the homestead forums though http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/clay62.html IP: Logged |
T
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posted March 28, 2013 01:50 AM
Padre, thanks. Great tips. The cheapy meal sounds yum, too.Dee, awesome site!!! Bookmarking it, thank you! IP: Logged |
T
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posted March 28, 2013 01:52 AM
somethingexcellent, I saw your pinapple upsidedown cake in another thread and drooled all over my keyboard. Share your recipe?I'd like to try growing a pinapple at some point too. IP: Logged |
somethingexcellent
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posted March 28, 2013 03:54 AM
^LOL OH so you DID! see it! I literalyl JUST replied to that thread.  IP: Logged |
somethingexcellent
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posted March 28, 2013 04:03 AM
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T: Share your recipe?
I triiiied to follow an online recipe but I came up a few ingredients short plus I didn't measure half of the ingredients... I didn't use the almonds, and subbed in cinnamon (dunno how much lol! just threw some powder in) and used milk instead of sour cream.
And I put all the cake ingredients in together. I read that it said to beat sugar and butter separately and freaked because it was already all in one bowl lollll. And the caramel mix started bubbling up from under it onto the pan handles and that made me nervous, but it was still delicious. IP: Logged |
T
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posted March 28, 2013 03:39 PM
Thanks! Will try it sometime  IP: Logged |
somethingexcellent
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posted March 28, 2013 07:48 PM
Oh and I didn't have salt either lol! Be sure to send a slice my way. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted March 28, 2013 08:03 PM
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Originally posted by Dee:
I have been wanting to grow all my own food for awhile now. The growing season here is so short there's still snow on the ground.Im always checking out the homestead forums though http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/clay62.html
I love Backwoods Home, in fact at one time was quiet the online friend to Claire Wolfe and she sent me a "Freedom is Beautiful" poster with a personal message Anywho, Homesteading is not as applicable everywhere, at least not in a sort of raise goats style of doing so. In urban areas things like Community Gardens and Container Gardens and occasional trips to the store would probably work as well. IP: Logged |
LionFish
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posted March 29, 2013 01:37 AM
YES all the time. At least that way I'd know how it was grown..IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted March 29, 2013 10:10 PM
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Originally posted by LionFish:
YES all the time. At least that way I'd know how it was grown..
True, there are also health and financial reasons to grow your own. Sort of "you grew them, now eat your veggies!"
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SpooL
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posted April 05, 2013 08:18 PM
Lovely idea.In elementary school, a classmate would bring vegetables from her garden. "She would say I picked this from our garden, for you". I think you should do the same. One of my family friends grew up on a farm and every summer, he plants tomatoes, squash and cucumbers in his backyard. Surprisingly, you really don't need that much space. The average backyard should be good enough. Only once did he have a bad growing season because of drought and a municipal water ban, every other season has been a success. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted April 05, 2013 08:25 PM
I'm trying. I need to get the square-foot gardening mixture of earth in somehow, and that costs money. I don't want to be using Miracle Gro again (apparently leaves lead in the food  ). If I could do that, and plan it just right. I could have much of my own grocery list taken care of. I'm using a lot of zuchini, carrots, cucumber, onions, romaine lettuce, spinach, kale, tomatoes, mint, basil, peppers. That's mostly what I buy. IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 05, 2013 09:26 PM
Can't wait for my tomatoes to be ready for the picking. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted April 05, 2013 09:36 PM
I found heirloom seeds at the Raisin rack last week, but they were mostly sold out and we also couldn't afford them. My poor dad was already helping me to buy the water, a sugar substitute, something else I can't remember, and then buying things for my sister. I hope I manage to actually grow bunches of lettuce this year, rather than a smattering of leaves. I need a lot for my smoothies that I've been supposed to be drinking for well over a year now. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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posted April 05, 2013 11:09 PM
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Originally posted by teasel:
I found heirloom seeds at the Raisin rack last week, but they were mostly sold out and we also couldn't afford them. My poor dad was already helping me to buy the water, a sugar substitute, something else I can't remember, and then buying things for my sister. I hope I manage to actually grow bunches of lettuce this year, rather than a smattering of leaves. I need a lot for my smoothies that I've been supposed to be drinking for well over a year now.
Hello Teasel, please allow me to point out you can grow lettuce from lettuce hearts that are usually thrown out just via placing them into a cup of water and letting nature take her course. IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 05, 2013 11:10 PM
I'd also like to grow salad greens. Too bad you couldnt get some heirloom seeds. I've always wanted some too.Hope you have some help from garden fairies and yours does better than expected this year.   IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 05, 2013 11:12 PM
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Originally posted by Padre35:
Hello Teasel, please allow me to point out you can grow lettuce from lettuce hearts that are usually thrown out just via placing them into a cup of water and letting nature take her course.
Oh yeah! Completely forgot about that one. I want to try that too.  IP: Logged |
T
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posted April 05, 2013 11:13 PM
(btw he shared a link on it, earlier in the thread)IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted April 05, 2013 11:25 PM
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Originally posted by Padre35:
Hello Teasel, please allow me to point out you can grow lettuce from lettuce hearts that are usually thrown out just via placing them into a cup of water and letting nature take her course.
Hi Padre! I've tried - they just go moldy and die. IP: Logged |
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