Re: Re: Murphy's Law
  By: Rob Mccart to GAMGEE on Tue Apr 22 2025 01:21 am

 > I'm afraid I buy my food which tarnishes my Mountain Man image.. B)
 > I was never a hunter and don't own a gun and most would not believe
 > living on the shore, I don't even fish.
 >
 > It would be possible to have a small garden built up, a few people
 > down the road do that, but I always found the amount of work to
 > grow food is a lot more than it is maybe worth in dollars by the
 > end of the season.

I don't hunt nor fish either. I don't like most fishes I could get around here,
and I don't feel like eating a wild animal who could live a happy life
otherwise.

I produce my own eggs and have a plentiful vegetable production.

The value of growing your own food is not in how much money you do save. You do
save money if you are efficient, but that is not the point, only the advantage.
The real point is that what you grow is much better than what you can buy in
most markets, and that you don't depend on anybody else for food.

Have you heard of that blackout we had in Spain? The whole country was busted.
Supermarkets closed, petrol stations didn't work, and since most cooking is done
with electricity here, people today had to eat cold meals. In this scenario,
there were only two kinds of person:

Kind one is the one who usually buys food, and spent the day scrambling around
like a beheaded chicken because water supplies weren't operational and there was
no food in the markets today.

Kind two is the one who has a year worth of canned vegetables and a room worth
of water barrels and spent the morning doing accounting and the afternoon having
a beer with his horses while reading ADMIN Network and Security.

Guess which kind of person used to laugh at which other kind of person for being
a dumb paranoid redneck :-)

So yeah, definitively there is reason to grow your own stuff. I think there is
great value of becoming less dependant.


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