How to Save Money

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

We are already old, lol!

My Aunt Dollie cans everything and she is 86, Joann milks cows and she is 84.
Hopefully I'll just have the big one while out picking my garden one day and not have to worry about it... but if not maybe one of our five boys or one of the grands will live here and let us have a small piece or maybe we'll sell and move to a retirement community... or... or... Usually I am just so thankful to be living the life I have now I don't spend much time worrying about how it may end.

My grandmother is up in her 80s, and still puts in a huge garden every year, and still cans herself. She never stops for long, and is still going strong.

You'll probably outlive all of us here on AFF!!! Eating all that healthy homegrown food, and getting plenty of vitamin D and exercise....

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

Yes it is but I spent many years in the California high desert and I have a son in Mesa and our family has grown successful gardens both places. The gardening season is different and fall and winter gardens tend to do better. Also raised bed or lasagna gardens work well there when combined with drip irrigation. There are few pests which is a huge bonus.

Here is a good site about growing in your area:

http://www.ag.arizona.edu/cochise/mg...tgardening.htm

Can't really look w/my current internet, but surely this site will outline "Hugel" beds (sure looks like lasagna). We're building one now, maybe "Hugelculture" is the right term--I guess it takes a year or so for the bed to become self-sustaining, no water needed. Even in the desert, I guess.

[bbyrd009]

ps Canning = 40% nutrition retention;
dehydrating = 95%

[houston]

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[ILG]

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[houston]

Originally Posted by ILG

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[bbyrd009]

[KeptByTheWord]

Originally Posted by houston

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You THAT desperate for convo?

[ILG]

Tonight, this is what I made for supper:

A few days ago, I found a chicken that was marked down to 76 cents a pound. I cooked it in a crock pot, outside, so it wouldn't heat up the house. We ate on the chicken for a couple of days including sandwiches for lunch. Today, I took the chicken off the bones (what was left) and made a chicken gravy. Then, I made mashed potatoes (from a box! Ugh! Rare, but I didn't want to go through the work of making fresh).

Then, we had garden tomatoes, garden corn, canned spinach and canned baked beans.

I boiled the carcass and poured the liquid in ice cube trays to use later for chicken broth.

Waste not, want not!

[ILG]

Last night, I made a clam chowder and used about 1/2 the ice cubes I made from the chicken broth.