🤯 Life Hack Alert
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i mean the food is better when you picked it that morning. but like, i can pay someone else to pick it that morning.
Yeah, I joined a CSA so someone gets money to buy the machinery in order to farm at a larger scale than they could have on their own and I get fresh fruits, vegetables and honey periodically.
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My parent's garden has literally thousands of garlic plants that show up unplanned every year. When clearing part of the garden to plant something else, pulling up like 30 garlic stalks is normal. Come harvest time, they give away as much garlic as they can and they still have so much that they have to throw a bunch of it out because it all goes bad before they can use it.
I would say they could pickle the garlic... but then they'll probably just end up with too much pickled garlic.
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once a week i hunt for a shop and gather some groceries.
Just like my forebears
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once a week i hunt for a shop and gather some groceries.
Just like my forebears
You're descended from bears?
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This sounds like a wall-e type sci-fi concept. Except our actual future.
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There are more than 1 seed in each tomato.
My God, we're so fucking rich!
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You're descended from bears?
Helps with the hunting
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Helps with the hunting
wrote last edited by [email protected]And makes the leather fit better.
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This is how I see all of the "I'm going to move to the country and grow my own food" crowd.
They're essentially glorifying subsistence farming, a lifestyle that humans have collectively been trying to escape since we invented agriculture.
the "I'm going to move to the country and grow my own food" crowd
If this statement appeals to you (it does to me) it might mean you need to find more hobbies that keep you outdoors. (I have and it's great!)
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just discovered agriculture?
Hey, you want to make a big of money? Do what I did, get into farming
I was expecting this video.
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And makes the leather fit better.
Do you still shit in the woods?
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I have a similar philosophy with basil. It's cheap enough in our stores, but it's way more convenient to always know its outside.
I like the flowers.
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I would say they could pickle the garlic... but then they'll probably just end up with too much pickled garlic.
Garlic Confit, use like butter, also really nice on sandwiches, caprese, the oil is great for dressings
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And makes the leather fit better.
Might make some other things fit better too, but that isn't my wheelhouse, so I'll let experts weigh in.
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I have a similar philosophy with basil. It's cheap enough in our stores, but it's way more convenient to always know its outside.
i have so much goddamn basil, lemon balm, rosemary, lavender and laurel because of this philosophy. every few weeks i pick some and fill a jar for each room of the house. it smells fantastic in here.
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You're descended from bears?
Yes, four of them to be exact.
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Just don't plant cheap stuff.
I will probably never grow onions, potatoes, corn, celery and other vegetables that are always cheap.
I will plant things that are easy and or pricey. Tomatoes for sure, if I bought the tomatoes at the store I would probably have spent $500 just on tomatoes a season. Chives are also easy to manage and expensive in store. Aspargus is stupid expensive and is almost hard to get rid of once established. Some berry type fruits are also worth growing if you have spare land for them since they come back each year.
I have a similar view. Plant things that are fun. It is a hobby and it needs to be that. Why bother planting potatoes when they take up a good amount of space and they're cheap?
I plant chives as well, rocket because I love it, weird varieties of chillies, and I'm thinking of adding also other herbs that I can't get easily or that are a faff to get. Coriander is a good example, as I have to get a bag whenever I have to use a tiny bit and the rest goes to waste.
Hobby farming is fun and a great way to get you (and the family) to eat more veggies. Subsistence farming is just painful.
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As someone who has a garden and has successfully grown garlic from cut ends of store bulbs...
It's not worth the labor.
I garden, yes, but the economy of scales of buying at the grocery store is much lower than growing your own vegetables. You garden because you want to enjoy vegetables that are either heirloom or you want the freshness.
Between the labor, watering, fertilizing, maintaining, etc. it's simply cheaper to buy at the store.
It's not worth the labor.
This is my perspective. I hate weeding, more than almost anything. I hate crouching and bending over, and shuffling slowly from patch to patch. I hate gardening. I hate getting sweaty and the kind of dirty you get in the garden: gritty, and it finds its way into your shoes and gloves. Gardening sucks.
If I was really invested, I might do hydroponics. Elevated, minimum to no weeds, no crawling around in the dirt. I don't know whether, in the end, I'd actually save any money, though.
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That's pretty much all youtube shorts are now. Most are just poorly done ragebaits
