Yesterday Jan and I visited a local feed & seed store to purchase some vegetable plant seeds. As one of my stranger habits is to \u201ccheck out\u201d everything in the consignment isle, I moseyed over to the frozen food area. What a shock to see ground beef selling for $9.99 a pound! HAMBURG for heavens sake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly my mind was running the numbers on the value of my 500 pound Angus heifer\u2026 why anyone with the space would NOT be raising their own food escapes me. Small & Beginner Farmers of NH has supplied a short video showing the construction of an affordable high tunnel<\/a> made with cattle panels. It extends your growing season allowing you to control your growing environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Food price inflation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Food shortages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fuel price inflation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n March seems to have brought on these, and several other budgetary challenges for many families. I must admit that I immediately ordered six turkey poults and lined up a \u2018companion\u2019 for my heifer to spend some quality pasture time together this Summer. That last minute decision in December to breed our dairy goats seems to be prescient now. It\u2019s amazing how rapidly day to day life goes from predictable to \u201cSay what?!\u201d On a more positive note, mud season has become somewhat irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday Jan and I visited a local feed & seed store to purchase some vegetable plant seeds. As one of my stranger habits is to \u201ccheck out\u201d everything in the consignment isle, I moseyed over to the frozen food area. What a shock to see ground beef selling for $9.99 a pound! HAMBURG for heavens … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twillingatefarm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}