I think this is going to be happenig all over the country. Fuel and energy costs are thru the roof. Who knows when the next "scare" is going to happen with the food we buy. Mad cow disease, e.coli, what's next? I heard on the radio a while back that about 1/2 of the apple juice we drink in this country comes from China. Apple juice! There's just something wrong with that.
Just talked with a diet expert a week ago and he tested lemons. It would take 12 lemons(store bought) to get equal value of one organic lemon. Something is wrong with this picture..
JC--I should shut my mouth in this forum and let other people post but its a topic near and dear to me. I live this lifestyle and its the first topic I go to daily. Just tell me to shut up.
Post by acewoodsman on Feb 5, 2008 17:47:09 GMT -5
i'll have to say homesteading is the way to go! we can everything ,have a small tater cellar, we butcher all our own meat we have apple trees, rasbery blackberry an strawberry patches an we try not to buy anything but the nessities from the store an i'd sure like to get rid of the electric co. which we're working on ! ;D i sure didn't know we get our apple juice from china what are they thinking
JC--I should shut my mouth in this forum and let other people post
Heck No buddy, Except for the summer months when Mike and Dale are taunting us with their awesome gardens, this board is usually pretty quiet. Thanks to you jumpstarting it again it's been hopping and I love it ;D I'd like to see more homesteading topics on here such as smoking and canning meat, beer making and food dehydrating.
Ace, It sounds like you've got a great thing going ;D Now I've decided that I need Johnporter, Mike692, Badger, Hounddog and Acewoodsman living on my street Man what a neighborhood that would be
JC--I should shut my mouth in this forum and let other people post but its a topic near and dear to me. I live this lifestyle and its the first topic I go to daily. Just tell me to shut up.
You can grow lemons anywhere in the country in a sunny window. Just sayin'. ;D
Yep, JC, this is by far my favorite part of the forum! Love it!!!
Trapping and homesteading go together like franks and beans.
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You can grow lemons anywhere in the country in a sunny window. Just sayin'. ;D
Mike, can you elaborate on this? Lemons grow on trees don't they?
Yes. But there is a variety called a Meyer lemon. It's a dwarf variety. I grow them in pots. Greenhouse in the summer and sunny window in the kitchen in the winter.
You can see them in my mushroom pic;
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do u get the lemons off them an how long does it have to grow for that , thats pretty cool ;D
The tree I have are a couple years old. I've gotten a half dozen lemons so far. They don't grow alot of them obviously. This year, they bloomed in the greenhouse in May. I am harvesting the lemons now. There are alot of other kinds of dwarf citrus too.
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yes it is good to see all the folks posting on thsi board.i love doing stuff like this.i grew up like this but got away form it a bit a few years ago.but as of last summer i really started back at it.i filled my freezer with garden goods and meat and lots of canning jars full of different things.i think we will start seing more of this across the country as more hardtimes fall upo all of us with all the riseing costs of energy and such.soon it will be more cost effective to grow here than transport across the world form china or where ever.keep up the good work folks!!!! ;D ;D ;D
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. ......Henry David Thoreau