Joanna
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I need information and reason to make decisions about the future of my household. Religion ain’t it, especially the Abrahamic-flavored ones. Let’s hope to see no more of this kind of thing here, and I regretfully will not take future posts from Ash with the same consideration as previously. I tried to participate in other online communities with similar outlooks on ‘doom’ and economics but that were majority christians. It wasn’t possible to coexist with that level of self-disillusion.
I hope TAE distances itself from this religion nonsense.
We used plain old fir/hemlock 2x6s for the frames and they are holding up fine after being out in all kinds of weather. We try not to use more plastic than absolutely necessary, so we invested in sturdier conduit for our hoops. So far the cheap visqueen is the only part that needs seasonal replacement. And we reuse the scraps of that a few times before chucking it. We also don’t use the frames to make a raised bed, since all our planting areas are really great soil. They’re just to anchor the hoops. Our hens take care of most of the slugs, and we take care of the weeds.
Pretty low profile, low maintenance, easy to lift and move to new areas or into storage zones for winter.
Planting season is just getting underway here, so our hoops will be filled with tomatos & peppers soon.
We use this recipe too (or at least something similar). It’s great for pizza crust and we make flat thin circles of it, fill with something tasty like BBQ pork, close the dough around it like a filled bun, and bake.
We use a mix of whole wheat and unbleached bread flour grown & milled locally. Really good bread!
As a non-productive food grower, this post really hit home with me. I work full time off-site, then bust my ass at home to grow food that money can’t buy. It is really tough for many people to understand why I do this to the extent I do (i.e. subsistence farming, not a hobby garden) when I can just buy cheaper food elsewhere.
And food is just one facet of this systemic problem. People are taught that accepting a more hands-on life is either ‘cracker’ or elitist depending on the point of view. What we the people need to know is the true cost of store-bought lifestyles, of externalization.
Those ‘poor’ susbistence farmers in other countries, and in our past, used to have access to common lands, grazing areas and “waste” lands. Loss or degradtion of these buffer zones threw people into hunger which led them to accept terrible conditions in return for a cash wage to buy the food they could no longer grow or glean themselves. I think that is the real tragedy of the commons.As far as liberal progressive types, I think they like their money as much as the rest of that class. They just like to feel philanthropic AND wealthy. So their resource acquisition comes with ‘aid’ and ‘progress’. There, all better. Never mind the destroyed societies and lifeways, have some Plumpy’nut.
Your comment about a payout taking place at $400/mo to infinity caught my attention.
My first thought was that all those tea-baggers who rail against welfare and unemployment ‘entitlements’ might jump at salvation by ‘payout’.
After enough hedonic adjustment in paychecks, getting your own money back (or whatever spin they’d want to put on mass bribery of the populace) via monthly check (Walmart cash card?) might seem oh so patriotic.A politician/government who could throw a palatable bone to voters would be a shoo-in, and not many would look that gift horse in the mouth.
