Re: Looking at Farms

Posted by JD Seller on April 06, 2018 at 22:06:06 from (208.126.189.95):

In Reply to: Looking at Farms posted by Traditional Farmer on April 06, 2018 at 18:12:11:

Traditional Farmer: I have not had a garden in over twenty years. The last few we planted grew more Japanese beetles than food. The massive amounts of insecticide to fight these pests made me leery of the stuff in the garden.

YOU can buy produce cheaper than you can raise it. I am not just talking about in a store either. Locally grown produce can be bought very reasonable around here. So If I want to can green beans I can buy a few bushels for about what the seed and fertilizer cost without the time/labor in raising them. I can pickup locally raise eggs for $3-4 a dozen. A few dozen last us a month. So for less than $120 a year I can buy all the eggs we want. Fruit trees are bug havens around here anymore. 75% of the fruit not worth eating or even picking up.

Then lets look at the time/labor involved in raising a garden. I flat have not had that time since my first wife died. I can go out and earn the money to buy good quality food in way less time than it takes to raise the same amount at home. Beef and pork are exceptions to that rule for us but we grow/raise both in larger numbers for income.

So a few rows of sweet corn on the outside of a close corn field. Plus some tomatoes in the flower beds is the extent of my gardening.

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