What did you do in the garden today?

Could the problem be Cleveland, OH? I just ran Goolag Streetview on it a little bit. Can't you move to the country? Some of us can't and have good reasons why. But if you could, life would improve so much. Outside of big cities, folks are friendlier and employees more knowledgeable. Even our TSC staff are about 40% good out here. You get further into the country and they get better.

Er, not to sound dismissive or rude but...

Can't I just uproot my whole life and move outside of a major city just so I can have a better garden center?

That doesn't sound like a very reasonable statement IMO.

Not that I don't have many more reasons to not move to the countryside (queer girl pagan farmers aren't popular in deep red country, lets be real here), but the above concept alone sounds rather outlandish to me.
 
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Again depends on where you go, tolerance wise. Plus, the open country is NOT less expensive. I have to pay extra for people to come out here to work, extra on gas and time to get to and from, extra for services. Then there's the costs of the things you need to maintain the property well, and the taxes, etc.

And it's not just Cleveland. The general swing towards large boxes eating small business is everywhere. Even out here in hard core farm country. I have HD, Lowes, Ace and two garden centers (all over 40 minutes one way) but they are here. Small garden centers cater to the rich city people that want planters on their deck or stone patios and pretty shrubs and green lawns. The two local green houses run by locals have gone belly up due to people wanting 99 cent 6 cell packs of marigolds.

So that's why we do a lot on our own, as do the other locals, and we swap and sell to each other.
 
Well, unfortunately I've not had great experiences around the countryside around here. :p Since I sell a lot of small livestock and network hard I meet a variety of people. There's some isolated pockets of course, locally the Roots and Reeds Skillshare group, Kellys Working Well Farm, the Tradora druids group and a few other places are pretty great so I know it can be done, especially if you have like-minds to come be with you. But I'm still building that group and the resources to make that move and in the meantime my experiences with the general country public haven't been great. I have had to rush out of experiences more often than I like to stop myself from telling people off aggressively while they unknowingly talk **** about me to my face while I'm just trying to buy/sell something. So without a support network and a lot of security I can't imagine that move would be easy.

But also moving JUST to get a new store seems silly. That's a lot of money/effort...

And yeah, even when I look at the country areas around here it's rough. There's some local places for feed but not so much plants and supplies. I've seen the bigger stores even further out and I've not seen many smaller shops just driving around.
 
Thanks for the support, Penny! I know I'm a young'n yet. :lau I have time to put it all together. I mean D is younger than me but he's even still in college after all. And I have some friends moving onto some 8 acres right now where they're looking to do a sustainable permaculture nut farm and oil press thing which is exciting! And they wanna set up some sort of a mutual aid thing between us all since I have a lot of plant growing experience and livestock that thay don't have. I'm even giving them one of my roosters this spring! Amusingly the person they're moving in with is a math professor at D's college, and D is head of his math club so they know eachother. So the pieces are all falling into place, just slowly.

I just hope I get as far as I'd like to before the degenerative arthritis the rest of my family has sets in. :p

Someday my dream is to have cows. Not just any cows but these cows:
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This is a 37" adult bull. They're so small and lovely. I want them so badly. Someday it'll happen!
 
Growing up 4-H on a farm I know had a bull I raised on a bottle I was always small for my age but he loved me Ma would open my window in the mornings he would wake me with his muzzle followed me like a puppy but the folks kept an eye on him we did allot of winning Showed him and rode my horses all with pride
 
Er, not to sound dismissive or rude but...

Can't I just uproot my whole life and move outside of a major city just so I can have a better garden center?

That doesn't sound like a very reasonable statement IMO.

Not that I don't have many more reasons to not move to the countryside (queer girl pagan farmers aren't popular in deep red country, lets be real here), but the above concept alone sounds rather outlandish to me.

Queer pagan farmer girl? Hello instant new friend! I'm another of that sort.
 

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