By: Tauna

Tauna — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:52:43 +0000

Hi Jackie,
Enjoy that venison! You are such hard working woman! You are an inspiration to everyone.
Thanks to you I have been enjoying my own home canned chicken, hamburger and pork.

By: Jeanne Allie

Jeanne Allie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:28:30 +0000

I’d like to respond to Thomas’ question, as well. If you’ve never done much gardening before in the area where you’re living, as your neighbors what kinds of vegetables have done well in that area. They’re much better experts than the folks who want to sell you seeds. Also, you mentioned that this outfit would sell you “open-pollinated” or “hybrid” seeds. If you do buy seed, buy the varieties your neighbors have recommended, and buy open-pollinated seed. Heirloom seeds are also a good choice. These 2 kinds of seed are coming from plants that were grown naturally–which is what you want, since that’s what you’ll be doing. Hybrid seeds are a bad idea, as you cannot save the seeds for the following year. You might get something “interesting” and you may enjoy a little science project of breeding back that seed to look/taste/grow like one of its ancestors, but you will not get something like what grew the first year you grew it. So, hybrid seeds–as well as genetically engineered seed, if anyone tries to sell you any of that, and most likely it’d be corn–are dead ends. Not for people trying to grow their own food in any reliable way.
But growing your own food can be done, and can be fun, satisfying, and stand between you and hard times. Good luck!

Comments on: The good new is that I’m canning venison; the bad news is that David’s transmission broke

By: Tauna

By: Jeanne Allie