Market Farming

["Margaret L Wilson" <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>]

IMO, security is the best feeling you get from owning your own land.  In 
troubled times having a place where you can grow some or all of your own food 
feels really good.  It may be a false sense, depending on where you live and 
how the economy goes.  

I was at the little local market yesterday.  A 4 ounce package of organic 
mesclun mix was over $3.60.  I don't shop for much.  I have 2 freezers full 
of meat, veggies and fruit and potatoes and other roots in storage,  Prices 
seemed outrageous since last time I looked. The economy is in bad shape here 
and people are hurting.  I saw an elderly lady with a list pricing items and 
putting them back.  I was listening while standing in line.  Most people were 
using charge cards to buy their groceries.  I will donate extra produce to 
the elderly here next summer.  Ironically, it is very rural here and almost 
everyone could have a small garden, a cage of rabbits and a couple laying 
hens.  I guess they are forgotten skills.

My list of potential customers is growing :-))



> What is it
> > about owning your own land?  I keep trying to tell myself that I should
> > adopt a more Native American approach to land, how can I ever really own
> > it anyways?  But it seems to me the sad fact is we live in a world where
> > having that approach leaves you vulnerable