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General Discussion => Share Your Badassity => Topic started by: Gone Fishing on July 13, 2017, 08:11:16 PM
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Made shepherd's pie tonight with homegrown potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash and hunted deer meat. Sure was fine! Post your "homegrown" meals...
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Caught a fish, fried it, done!
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I wouldn't call "hunted deer meat" as something that's "homegrown" but do get the sentiment.
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I wouldn't call "hunted deer meat" as something that's "homegrown" but do get the sentiment.
They are when they eat my vegetables!
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Didn't raise the chicken, but canned it myself. Mixed with homemade zucchini relish (zucchini, peppers, and onions out of the garden) and mayo. Really good, especially on homemade bread.
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It's a pretty empowering thing, isn't it? Today I fed six people (with enough leftovers to feed us all tomorrow) with 5lbs of potatoes and 1lb of carrots, all freshly killed, from our garden. I added some garlic and herbs (also from our garden), some lentils (from a local organic wholesaler), and some chicken stock we'd made by roasting and then boiling a chicken carcass (which had already given us two or three meals). Add an onion, a few spices, and some feta cheese. It's a traditional Greek soup; our guests loved it.
I don't just think about the money saved; equally nice to me is that all I had to do was to outside and dig my hands into the dirt rather than drive to the grocery store. Less time, more pleasurable.
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I started a compost month ago.. It motivates me to eat more fruits and vegetables, so I have more "waste" to compost. I truly believe it will give nice boost for the soil, and that it will help me to grow vegetables next year (it will be tight schedule, but faith is faith).. I know it's a lot of work, but still.. If i grow my own food, I do not need to commute, nor pay taxes from my energy (work), nor pay 20% VAT on vegetables I would buy, so its pretty much a saving scheme also (or at least overpissing the system).. Only true future reality will show,if I was right, but I am sure, I will be :)
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This spring I started with vermi compost in my tiny back yard. I used its bounty to grow cherry tomatoes which I used today in guacamole. The peppers/paprika are not ripe yet, but have also benefited from my wriggly friends!
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I shopped a meat sale, and along with what I bought I made a pot roast with lots of backyard carrots and potatos.
I also have a pot of green onions on the back deck for when I make omelets with the eggs from my pet chickens.