re: #22 Targetpractice

See, I don’t know about a lot of folks in the deep south, but here in VA the local farmer’s market tends to see most of its produce vendors close shop in the winter. Why? BECAUSE THERE’S NOT MUCH GROWING! It’s why you can’t grow much in your garden in the winter unless you’re operating a greenhouse because the first frost will kill it. And most local farms do not pump out crops large enough to supply a single grocery store for a week, let alone a chain for any appreciable length of time. That pack of strawberries with the “locally grown” sticker on it? Odds are it’s from a factory farm that supplies more than just your local grocery store. And when the imports of strawberries dry up, so will those packs because the factory farm is gonna sell more of its product to the companies pumping out strawberry pastries and straw daiquiri mixes than to your grocery store chain.

In those golden days many of the ignorant want to return to but have no idea how it really was forget how people used to store food, prepare food, etc.

Many times you ate from the stored food in your cold cellar, pantry, etc. Much of that was grown in the growing season then prepared for storage by the women of the family. You had potato bins, onion bins, canned fruits and vegetables, etc.

Who does that today? Really no one. And people today want to stop in their grocery store and get fresh lettuce, spinach and other veggies…they don’t want stuff that is in a mason jar. I like a good salad. When I was younger we didn’t have a lot of fresh salads during the winter because half the stuff was out of season. I don’t think you can can lettuce and spinach…you would end up with goop.

The biggest issue with people today is they live in a fantasy of what they think it was or should be. Getting real is the problem. They can’t.