Baymule
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Those Amish auctions sound like a lot of fun and some really good deals.
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Mike CHS
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A lot of people buy in bulk at the auction and resell at Farmers Market plus a lot of restaurant folks buy there also.
Bruce
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Obviously one can have a garden because they like to be out playing in the dirt. But those prices do make it sound like you should be growing things they do not. I tried corn, miserable failure and there is a guy at the Farmer's Market that has great corn. Not near as cheap as what you are being charged though. So what do they NOT grow that you would want?
greybeard
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oil wells?
Bruce
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yeah those are a wee bit hard to grow, especially if there isn't any oil to pump.
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Mike CHS
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We will probably always (at least as long as we can) have a garden but we have scaled it down to less than half of what it had been. I have let the area around the fruit trees go back to grass that was all planted last year. We will keep growing okra since that is one thing that isn't the best of quality at the auction or the farms, no idea why. We will keep growing enough for daily use since it's so convenient but most of our canning/freezing will come off of their farms.
CntryBoy777
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The good thing about it is ya have a bunch to do with and once the process is done it can be cleaned up and left alone for a while.....instead of doing smaller bunches more often....of course ya have to have the freezer or shelf space for it.....
Ridgetop
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If you have the space to store it, canning is the best way to go since the freezer gets filled fast. If you are trying to can enough to keep you all year, you need plenty of shelf space and a basement or root cellar. Also about 2000 jars - anyone want to drive to California and get some jars? I have about 1000 still stored. LOL
Baymule
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I sure wish you were closer! I'd gladly take those jars! But you would have to throw in the basement and that might be a little hard to do......
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Mike CHS
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Ridgetop - When we renovated our house we put storage space at the top of the priority list. We have a 10'X10' space with wall to wall shelves in the shop dedicated to food storage. We turned most of a laundry room into a panty with wall to wall shelves on 2 walls and we have two 22 cubic foot freezers to take the excess the two refrigerators can't handle. All of the bulky food processing gadgets get stored on the enclosed porch that we added.
Fred - that's what we did last year - we bought a couple of bushels of cucumbers, corn, assorted peppers and tomatoes and did all of our canning for the next season in a couple of days. One of the neighbors also bought a bunch and we turned an area outside into an outdoor kitchen under the canopy and used the big camp stove to keep the heat outside.
Fred - that's what we did last year - we bought a couple of bushels of cucumbers, corn, assorted peppers and tomatoes and did all of our canning for the next season in a couple of days. One of the neighbors also bought a bunch and we turned an area outside into an outdoor kitchen under the canopy and used the big camp stove to keep the heat outside.
