Could your family weather a depression?

[ams3651]

Even if your not looking toward a depression, many of these practices are "green" and just make sense to save money.

 

[onebuggirl]

For all you wanna be canners here is a great website to get started. www.pickyourown.org this website gives you a list of farms and farmstands to buy fresh local produce and has a link to how to can everything from a-z. I found a great way to cann apple butter using a crockpot to reduce the butter overnight verses hours of mess on the stove top. Check it out canning is easy, fun, and very Yummy!

 

[thechickenchick]

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I am one of those "wanna be canners" you speak of!!

I just checked out that site. Thanks for sharing the link. Its great! Very easy to understand, and has pictures even!!

 

[peapickinchicks]

Yes, my DH and I do worry about a depression. We did order heirloom seeds this year, we have some left over, but I will still order more next year. I plan on having a bigger garden next year, and I have been canning and stocking up on meat from a local butcher. The worry is the reason why I got chickens too. I'm still trying to talk my DH into getting a goat few goats. I love all animals everything we have will be spoiled rotten. I used to be a stay at home mom till this April gas going up so high we just could't budget anymore. So I work part-time now. We only have a mortgage payment as far as payments go, and I do worry about people in the city and stealing. I just pray that the Lord will see us all through these hard times as I know our ancestors have seen plenty of hard times as well, and made it through, I love my grandma sooo much and it breaks my heart to hear her talk of being so hungry when she was a child, she actually asked my grandpa when he asked her to marry him if he was going to let her go hungry, he said of course not and she never has. I pray that people will love one another and pull together to make it, there is still plenty of land to plant on to feed folks if people will be concerned with others well being instead of making a buck if a depression does strike, times will be hard for everyone. I do believe we need to get back to basics and learn to do for ourselves, I personally like to be self sufficient, but I know so many who do not have a clue where most food comes from but the store. I praise God for all his blessings for we are still a blessed country and God bless our troops.

 

[mistylady]

We, in my opinin, are headed into dark times. The cost of grains has skyrocketed, banks are failing and we show every sign of falling into a depression. Look at your grocery bill compared to last year at this time.

For adults only: And this article will open your eyes as well. It scared me.

http://members.aol.com/poesgirl/storing.html

and this:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...D1238EE32A25753C3A9639C946996D6CF&oref=slogin

So please be careful what you type on a public forum. Just my advice of course.

 

[werblessd1s]

I agree peapickinchicks

 

[werblessd1s]

Thanks for posting this info mistylady, It's no surprise, but I have never heard of a food hourding law. I will have to check and see if Florida has one.
That's why votors really need to be careful when they vote a president in office. If it includes the words, One World or Universal, I don't want nothing to do with it.

 

[lilshadow]

I am doing lots of canning this year, raising our own meat birds, growing a garden. It is getting really tough out there, and it is getting very scary.

 

[sweetcorn]

Do you think they could really prosecute us folks who garden , can , freeze , and raise our own meat for " hoarding " ? Our family raises livestock at the mom in laws , ( hubby has 5 bros) everybody butchers a pig and steer each year and all the wives garden and can our own grown in our yard goodies. We have pear trees, one sis in law has an apple orchard , another has peach trees and we share fruit. It's not like all of us who keep months worth of food in the house are hoarding " public" supply. Most of our food stored is food we made ourselves, not off the Wallyworld shelf ! Anybody have an opinion?

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

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Honestly, I don't know, but I expect they would try.

Yesterday we bought a jar of peaches, and this morning my husband read on the jar "Product of China"

I know that not long ago (maybe last year?) my husband read somewhere or heard it, not sure which, that Busch passed something stating that one is not to have more than a months supply of food in your home. Yea, well, my root cellar, isn't even attached to my house