Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules. Ok, maybe we need a few ground rules. Buying from the local farm market is ok for things we cannot/ don't want to grow ourselves. For example dear son #2 is a huge (and I mean huge) blueberry fan. Blueberries are notoriously difficult to grow, but are very popular as a commercial crop in our area. There are numerous U-pick/ ready pick opportunities in our community. I don't mind buying from local growers and contributing to the local economy. The cost is still much less than if we purchased from the grocery store and we can plan ahead to get the freshest harvest possible to bring home. We also luck into some terrific sweet corn from a dear friend of the family. We do the labor to preserve the corn, but do not have to input the labor to grow it. Free food is good in my book - and we make sure to payback the family in other ways. Buying from the local little ole man who sits at his roadside stand every day is also a-ok in my book too. He has yummy melons and there is another roadside stand by the lake that has some terrific sweet onions, so we might just continue to pick some of those up.
Hmm....I can't think of any other rules right now. Maybe that means I am a nonconformist, or maybe it just means that we have not thought this whole thing through yet. *shrug* Just like so many other things in my life, I guess we will figure it out as we go.
An online friend pointed out that we are going to need a bigger freezer. That is on the wish list. The house we bought needed some work, including an addition of family room, mud room and garage (and to hear the kids tell it - a pool and party deck). The freezer purchase is pending the completion of the addition because there is just no where to put it right now.
Personally I think we did pretty good filling the freezer this year, considering that we started on July 1st. OF course the boys cannot wait for it to be winter because they want to dig into that yummy sweet corn.
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