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Broody
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I know how and I do. Been doing it for well over a decade here. We raise most of our produce, lettuces, spinach, carrots, turnip, potatoes, onions, garlic, tomato, bell and hot peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, yellow squash, a few jack o'lantern pumpkins, several field pumpkins, acorn squash, peas, a few lentils like pinto beans and lima beans, a handful of other greens (mustard, kale) and a few herbs as well. We also have black berries and grapevines, walnut, olive (I gave up on the brining of olives years ago) I raise a few stalks of corn for the summer - we have fresh corn on the cob. I did try a few times to raise corn for year round - it required too much space. We actually eat more varieties of vegetable and more vegetables simply because I do grow them. Previously we stuck to a very narrow bandwidth of veg in our diet.
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I know how and have done it for many years in the past, at least up until we moved here 4 years ago. Most of our food was raised or grown by us. We didn't do things like wheat and soy, but just about everything else we could. And if you use heirloom seeds or at least, seeds that are not hybrid, you can save the seeds from one year to the next which really saves you money as those seed packets rally add up! We grew a good part of our fruit as well. We found it to be very cost effective. I stayed home and took care of the ranch so had time to work in the garden and raise the animals. We ate a lot of veggies which lowered our need for more expensive store bought foods. We made all our own baked goods, like bread bagels, muffins and desserts, and got the flour and supplies from a co-op that was nearly all organic. We were healthier and we lived very well on less money.
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I have, in the past, but my present situation makes it very difficult, as I have no land and it would have to be done completely indoors.
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I would love to grow my own vegetables.
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