Re: Feeding the Family

I've seen lots of these types of gardens all through my childhood. Next door neighbours from India often shared their produce.

During WW I and II there were Victory Gardens. In England there were Land Girls, who helped on the farms.

We were told that the average back yard could support 4 adults for one year.

In a rural town near here people canned chickens and every kind of fruit and vegetale.

I remember my grandmother putting down salmon in tiny jars. Her cool basement canning cupboard was a picture to behold. And people always brought us smelts when the run was on. One day I watched a man collect the smelts from his net and stash the harvest in his swim trunks.

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It was a matter of being frugal, in my time.

Now, of course, we must ask the previous owner what he knows of wastes dumped on our property, etc.

I saw a fellow on TV, years ago, who was restoring soil containing petroleum wastes. What he did was to fill the soil with a certain bacteria, and add oxygen.

The bacteria ate the pollutant as long as the oxygen was supplied, and, when it wasn't, the bacteria died.

Now...were the dead bodies of the bacteria toxic?

:)


If people only realized the dollar value of 'heritage land'.

I like wild land that belongs to anyone and is not far above the water table. I'd like to scatter seeds there, like Hubbard squash.

A lady in Washington State did that near the outskirts of the rain forest, because she knew there were people living in there.

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