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Growing food is secondary to storing food. If you just grow your own food without thinking about preservation, it's very easy to run into the situation you ment
by kilpikaarna 2y ago
Growing food is secondary to storing food. If you just grow your own food without thinking about preservation, it's very easy to run into the situation you mention. Where you have a larger harvest of something than you are able to use at once, and no method of keeping it from spoiling.
Conversely, if you know how to pickle and can, and have a chest freezer and maybe a food processor, it's very easy to buy bulk amounts of vegetables when they are in season and store for later. You get basically the same benefits as with growing your own, for much less effort, and quite possibly less expense.
- diggan 2y agoAlternatively, something that doesn't seem to be mentioned so far in this comment threads, is befriending your neighbors and gifting them what vegetables/fruits they don't have and them doing the same to you, hopefully leading to less stock of everything but more variety.
- kilpikaarna 2y agoOne potential problem I see is that if your neighbors are into gardening, they're likely to have had the same type of things do well that particular season. So sure, if your neighbor has some apple variety you don't, you can swap. Or your broccoli for their cauliflower or other Brassica. But it might not mean that much for variety in the end. But giving food away and getting nothing in return is preferable to having it spoil, obviously. And every situation is different.