At Home In The Woods

Obed · Apr 18, 2012

jinman said:
I salute your wife because gardening is hard work, but home grown veggies make it all worth the effort. You won't save a nickel over the grocery store, but your stuff will taste 10 times better.:thumbsup:

We understand that we won't save money by growing our own veggies. There's a satisfaction from growing your own that is hard to quantify in dollars. In addition, the taste of a grocery store tomato just doesn't compare to that from home. Plus, we get to determine what and how much pesticides are used.

The primary reason for growing the garden is because my wife enjoys it and reaps great satisfaction from doing so. Another benefit will be that gardening will give our little girl a format for learning a good work ethic. I whole-heartedly believe there is no better environment for raising kids than in a farm type setting. And yes, I am a proponent of child-labor.

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Depmandog · Apr 18, 2012

Obed said:
....... And yes, I am a proponent of child-labor.

Obed

I am too.....and it really SUCKS when your little slaves er I mean kids grow up and head off to college.... All that work that I now have to do myself (crying). And my grand kid .....

Well - he isn't much help right now!! (but he sure is fun to hang with!!!!!)

ruralruss · Apr 18, 2012

Obed said:
We understand that we won't save money by growing our own veggies. There's a satisfaction from growing your own that is hard to quantify in dollars. In addition, the taste of a grocery store tomato just doesn't compare to that from home. Plus, we get to determine what and how much pesticides are used.

The primary reason for growing the garden is because my wife enjoys it and reaps great satisfaction from doing so. Another benefit will be that gardening will give our little girl a format for learning a good work ethic. I whole-heartedly believe there is no better environment for raising kids than in a farm type setting. And yes, I am a proponent of child-labor.

Obed

We use no pesticides. More work, less toxins.

buckeyefarmer · Apr 18, 2012

You went over 4000 posts, and I've enjoyed the whole thing.

Obed · Apr 19, 2012

Depmandog said:
I am too.....and it really SUCKS when your little slaves er I mean kids grow up and head off to college.... All that work that I now have to do myself (crying). And my grand kid .....

Well - he isn't much help right now!! (but he sure is fun to hang with!!!!!)

Depmandog,
He sure looks like he's having a lot of fun there. Go Tigers!

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Obed · Apr 19, 2012

buckeyefarmer said:
You went over 4000 posts, and I've enjoyed the whole thing.

Woohoo!

Here are the top 10 posters:
1. dcyrilc 195
2. dstig1 172
3. CurlyDave 108
4. eepete 100
5. brin 91
6. dave1949 84
7. EddieWalker 83
8. buckeyefarmer 67
9. Coyote machine 66
10. Diamondpilot 64

Obed · Apr 19, 2012

ruralruss said:
We use no pesticides. More work, less toxins.

ruralruss,
Same here. It is a challenge though.

It is a little scary that we eat food that has poison on it strong enough to kill things. Sure we rinse the veggies we get from the store. If rinsing them with water is enough, then the first rain that occurs in the crop field would remove all the poison and the bugs would have a feast. So it seems to me that a potent amount of poison must stay on the food after rinsing it.

People are living longer now than they used to so maybe the poision on the food isn't killing us earlier. However, I wonder if we are just living longer but are sicker in our old age - more cancer, etc.

I would rather die quickly in my sleep than have a slow death by poison. I could just be paranoid...

However, I doubt anyone would argue that eating food that at one time had poison on it is healthier than eating food that never had poison on it. Of course, that's assuming you had enough to eat after the bugs got their share.

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Obed · Apr 19, 2012

This weekend I raked up the grass clippings in the back yard to try to keep them from suffocating the grass. The wild turkey was in her nest while I raked. She stays in the nest almost all the time. However, I got very close to the nest while raking and it was too close for comfort so the turkey took off. I finished raking while the turkey was gone. I dumped the clippings onto the compost pile.