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["Wendy Gulliver" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Get a diesel truck and make your biodiesel from used restaruant fryer oil. 
Not hard and dirt cheap.

Wendy



> The farmers' market led to a much more brisk trade of us making delivery
> rounds on a regular basis.   But, shades of things to come, being located 
> far
> enough away from  towns to have enough farm land, the cost of motor fuel 
> to make
> the rounds went over the limit and it is no longer profitable (i.e. people
> aren't willing to pay that much extra) and our time is better spent on 
> other
> cottage industries.   Gardens and chickens this year were cut back to only 
> what we
> need and a little more for barter in the hollow.
>
> I expect this is only the beginning of such.