i haven't been posting ,and this blog has never become what i wanted it to be ,so i think it is time for that to change ,i will be going through and deleting some of the old post ,but right now what i have on my mind is food ,not the kind you go to the grocery store and pick up ,but the kind you can produce yourself ,i have a thought that keeps recurring to me ,what if all we had to get was what we could grow or raise ,how would our eating habits change ,just what can be grown here ,i know rice can be grown in the southern United States but i have no idea how to do it ,there is a book on small scale grain farming i think i will buy but i don't know if it covers rice ,how much land do i need to produce rice ,my thoughts are on healthy foods that i can grow for my family ,along with rice i think about fats is it possible to grow olives here ,i know that they grew in Turkey when my father was stationed there ,and the winters there were cold much more snow than bama gets ,so maybe ,i know i could produce lard from pigs but that's not really all that healthy ,what about salt is there a local salt mine around here

i am going to slowly stop buying foods that i know we cant get locally ,it wont shorten our list of foods all that much but there are some things i don't think we can grow here bananas and oranges being two of them

i will be making a list of the foods i know i can grow or raise ,just to see where it would leave us and others like rice i will research .

i don't know where this will lead so i will just have to up date as we go along