High prices for food... why do people with a yard or land complain about high

[Destined]

food prices when they can? garden, raise chickens, turkeys, ducks, goats and other things for food?

And what about having a neighborhood communal garden?
I raised my own crops on an acre of land and raised chickens, turkeys and baked my own bread... it is EASY if you want it to be.... there is absolutely no excuse... I also did this while working AND TAKING care of my father with cancer and my two year old niece...

I raised my own crops on an acre of land and raised chickens, turkeys and baked my own bread... it is EASY if you want it to be.... there is absolutely no excuse... I also did this while working AND TAKING care of my father with cancer and my two year old niece...

[meanolmaw]

it's not as easy as you seem to think it is.... if I grew corn, I cold eat some for supper.... what about this winter?.... oh, yeah... now I have to 'can' some.... same with beans and tomatoes and tomato sauce, and all those other things you think are so quickly obtained from a garden..... I'd go broke buying canning jars, and parafin and a pressure canner and a hot water bath and rings and lids and don't even ask me how I feel about shuckin' corn, peeling parboiled tomatoes, and snappin' beans!!.... and then there's the potatoes.... I don't have a cold cellar... and my apples have worm holes, too!.....

it's nice to think about... alot harder to actually DO.... it would have to be an emergency to get most of us to that point again!!!.....and I'd still have to ask my HOA if it's 'allowed'... HA!!!

[fishineasy]

It's not all together easy to grow your own things. I don't know of but a few people who could really do that.....I mean to really make it work. We have our own garden where we grow tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, okra, squash and some other things. But we don't have a cow and chickens are expensive to feed unless you feed them scraps and we don't have many of them. You have to look at the whole picture.

nfd?