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  • From: "Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Interesting blog
  • Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:43:38 -0700

I would go for drying before canning myself. Much less nutrient loss and lower costs over all. Community food systems as well as individual systems will likely have to work together. The comment that he had spent so much in time and money is very telling. It isnt necessary and if a community shares the imput work you can grow much more then if everyone has their own individual plots. Our community has a poultry butchering cooperative. You put in your $300 and get the use of $3000 worth of excellent equiptment that is on a trailer that you can bring to your place. There are 15 slots so everone has the option of a minimum of 2 days a month to butcher birds. This would work well in a rural community setting. I can think of many many other options for these types of cooperative ventures including greenhouses - I am going to put in one of those pit types one of these days - hubby really likes bananas - and perhaps small processing places for community use.

Just some thoughts.

Aliza

----- Original Message ----- From: "TamesonOB" <tamesonob@metrocast.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Interesting blog


It's called canning. The growing season in NH IS very short - but hey at
least it's not Canada! In NH we're typically a zone 4 or 5 (some 6 too) and
in that you can grow potatoes, beans, peas, tomatoes, apples, onions,
garlic - the list goes on. But you get my point. Whatever you grow, you must
learn to store - be it by canning copious jars of tomato sauce or root
cellaring your apples in an old barrel (though if he lives in NH I can bet
he has a cellar, unless he lives in a mobile home). Couple that with small
scale season extensions and you can garden 3/4 of the year - with simple
plastic low tunnels and soda bottle cloches alone you can increase the yield
of any crop you grow. Imagine what he could do with a 10' greenhouse!

Tameson in NH
http://tamesonsmusings.blogspot.com/

----- Original Message ----- From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
The growing season in New Hampshire,
where we live, is very short, and his overall yield was not great enough to
cut significantly into his grocery bill except for during a few peak weeks
of production.

There's an answer to that but let's hear others first.



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