We save by having a garden. We can all our veggies. We also watch the weekly sales for meat. When it is cheap, I buy in bulk to can. Also we hit roadside stands and farmers markets for any good deals. Right now we have about a year’s worth of food stored that we rotate and eat. We also got a great deal on long term freeze dried and dehydrated foods from a company that was going out of business. So we really scored there. That food we don’t use as it is a backup in case we have a bad year for gardening. That has happened a couple of times do to the amount of rain we got. More than usual rain than our garden could take. So lost on 2 years before. No one around here has fruit nor nut trees of any kind. I am thinking about a couple of apple trees and not sure what else yet. Need to be careful where I plant them as we don’t want them to shade the garden. Might have to plant in front yard. That would be questionable as people might take what they want. We had a pecan tree in backyard year’s ago and neighbors behind us while we were at work, stripped the tree dry of nuts. We drove up and caught them. The lady bragged how she got 13 grocery bags of nuts. We went off on her as we had none for that year because of her. She bought us back one bag and said we didn’t need these. How thoughtful of her to give us one bag back of our pecans. Thank goodness they have since moved away. Bad neighbors in more ways than one. We also had a neighbor that said her mother came home from work and someone stripped her garden of the butterbeans. She had a fenced in yard. So problems do arise as to what you can plant and do in a neighborhood. I want to find out where we can glean food at some farms. Farms are getting scarce around here as they are selling off the farm land. Sad situation. Our biggest problem is fruit. It is expensive around here for the most part. We are growing blueberries so far though, but the birds seem to beat us to them. Need to figure out a netting for them.
