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  • From: willowridgefarm@iowatelecom.net
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] High wheat prices raise grocery costs
  • Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:15:30 -0500 (CDT)

>
Liz,
Where do you find wheat flour in such quanities and how do you store it?
Cherie





At 01:06 PM 3/16/2008, you wrote:
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>>When I forecast rising prices and harder times, many months ago, it
>>sounded far fetched. And I said it was time to start growing our
>>own. That time has passed.
>
> When I bought two hundred pounds of wheat over the course of a couple
> of months, everyone I knew thought I was crazy. But I made six loaves
> of bread yesterday at an average cost of about 50 cents a loaf. And
> that's real bread, not the white totally nutritionless sponge you buy
> at the grocery store (which is what that woman in Texas is getting if
> she's paying $1.09 a loaf).
>
> Even so, the wheat cost twice what it did when I bought the last big
> batch of it a couple of years ago.
>
> Liz in SW VA
> http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
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