~SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR CHALLENGING TIMES

[sumisu]

Timely post 'wow happens'

Today I had lunch with a gardening friend, the source of many new ideas for my garden.

She is married to an American and in her early life she lived in Asia, basically a jungle area. A member of a large family, she was the chief hunter for game. I never asked her the specifics, but she is now a vegetarian due to having hunted so many animals. However, she still believes in hunting plus harvesting roadkill as a source of food. Whatever the source, it always come down to survival in her mind.

Having finally retired last year, she can fill her days with gardening a huge garden in part of my city and it is relatively secluded in the woods, but with plenty of sun and wells that she hand dug in a very high water table.

Last autumn I visited a cousin in upstate New York. She has a fabulous garden supplying a stream of veggies augmented by a yearly deer by her husband who uses a cross bow. Her son, now married and with a family, uses a cross bow too.

When I visited her in early October, she harvested a meat chicken for one of our dinners. Her garden produce is rich due to using aged horse manure. Her Yukon potatoes were easily twice the size of mine!

I know one thing for sure; in the time of a food crises, those in the country are a lot better off than the rest of us!

Thanks for your post, wow!

sumi