I'll be better tomorrow, but I just had to vent tonight. **** Sometimes ya'll make me smile. I thought anything a person could grow, 'in kindness and healthy food and atmosphere' would be preferable to buying at the store. Which is what any homesteader is truly trying to avoid. NO, of course I wouldn't arbitrarily feed chicken shit to anything except the compost pit. OH, but we'll drive this one into the ground, won't we?
Maybe there are more 'spiritual' folk on the list than realistic homesteaders/farmers /gardeners after all. Reading this list from the outside, it would appear that most of the members exist on air and lightness, not on food from any recognizeable source. (What do you people eat, anyhow?) I love my home grown foodstuffs. I'm not ashamed to put excess wethers (castrated male goats) in the freezer and I have an abundance of milk and usually some sort of hand made cheeses besides the harvests from the fields. I try to experiment annually with different vegetables in the garden, picking out those things that are unique, have a high food value, and something I can save seed from. I'm always looking for some ways to experiment, (the fish idea being one of them), and once researched fully, have no problem laying the project aside until I can determine further if it's actually warranting a place on my farm or not. But, how highfalutin we all are...."" this isn't good, that is so bad, why would you consider anything else?"" I love a debate as much as anyone else. There are some sound ideas coming out of this group, only they're very small voices. Hidden between all the know- it-alls. martha, disappointed in the meaness and small- spiritedness of this group.
