Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

A great idea, co-op butchering, and obviously cost efficient. The big snag
with butchering for sale is USDA. We learned there's a USDA certified
butcher only seven miles from us, and it happens to be the only one in the
state. I recall as a kid we had one steer butchered each year in town where
they had a frozen locker onsite. When they went into town once a month for
the main grocery shopping they'd stop at the locker for our beef.
Registered hereford at that. As for the milch cow, I don't even want to
remember that.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/20/2008 at 10:43 AM Aliza wrote:

>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" 
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>Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:37 AM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Interesting blog
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>
>> 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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