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I know that I am one of the ones that mentioned that my mom put up over 1500 
quarts of canned goods every year, not including dehydrated foods (she had 
two running almost constantly, as I recall, one of which my Dad had made for 
her and had 23 3' by 3' trays. It was taller than I am). However, just so you 
know, I am the oldest of 15 kids. While we did not always consume a season of 
the preserved food in a year, we put a real good notch in it. Now, of course, 
she does not do as much, and is constantly giving any of her kids who want, 
jars of food. The last ones we got were salsa and pizza sauce from 1988. 
Salsa is still good, pizza sauce not so much ;-) Of course, I re-use the jars 
in my own canning, and the tradition continues...

Of course, I come absolutely nowhere close the the sheer volume of what she 
did. I look back, and am amazed, impressed, and awed.

Ray



-----Original Message-----
From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com; homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 9:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Homestead] pigs





Leslie wrote:
> I'm looking out my window at my weed covered sandy desert land.... 
> and smiling and thinking "what pasture?"   I will try to find out 
> from the "earthship" guy if his pigs, when he had them, ate the 
> typical desert weeds.  Although I can see he kept them in a rather 
> small penned area.

Even if they don't eat them, they will uproot them and you will nicely
tilled soil.

> 
> Oh,,,,,,,,,,, I've seen some people post they can 1000s of jars of 
> food a year.  For how many people is that?  And is that 1000 jars 
> eaten every year, or is there a rotatation going on where food grown 
> one year is to cover 2 years of eating or what....

For the latter question, both.
With respect to the former question, if 1000 seems like a lot, count the
cans and packages in your pantry and in your freezer.  Estimate your
yearly use to put it in perspective.


> 
> I asked him where he got the tires.  A local tire store, paid him to 
> accept delivery of them.  He received 600 tires and they paid him 
> $300 (half the going rate at the time).   LOL.

I told you there were places that would pay you...

B


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not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge
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