I love when a bunch of immature adults make up nonsense to justify their habit.

If you have to unwind with alcohol, then you have some serious issues bubbling beneath the surface.

oboy

hmmm

Tyler plz move to america and help me to grow the weed so we can afford to grow the best animals. I am not authentically raw paleo enough either.
 

where do you live?

It always impresses me when I see PPL living in the middle of a city with a small yard growing food. A friend of the family has a 10 by 15 foot backyard and three or four chickens on it. Some PPL have a garden that flows out to the sidewalk. Our local city council asked us if anyone would put a beehive on top of city hall and that is not uncommon on the island. This is hippie central.

We live on the outside edge of a small city. A friend helped me complete (today) a 7 foot by 19 foot greenhouse, using used sliding patio glass doors as the walls and the glass from same, covering the roof. I plan to run our roof rainwater out to it for watering, although water here is not a problem. It is practically a rainforest here compared to the rest of Canada. We only get snow maybe one day a year or not at all and last winter we had none. There is a lot of Brits living here Tyler as well as expats from over Europe. The climate is similar, but less populated.

I heard that there is a breed of lemons that will grow here, but you have to cover it over during the coldest nights of the year, but my friend gets lemons from it. We cover the figs but after a few years you don't have to apparently. We have peaches, figs, pears, apples, cherries, prune plums, raspberries, grapes and soon gojis. Even tho the honeybees didn't make it through last winter (my fault) we got mason bees in the spring, so they did an amazing job on the pears and apples. Peaches and cherries were a medium crop, last year we were drowning in peaches and pears with our honeybees. The figs are amazing. Always lots of prune plums. The grapes are in too shady an area to do much. We just got some thornless blackberries. I also harvest the rosebuds for vitamin C and I save the peach and prune pits and break them open for the B17

I also did a few things like milk thistle for the seeds (Cleans and repairs the liver), coriander seeds, potatoes, celery, tomatoes, Daikon radish, swiss chard, kale, carrots etc but each thing was generally only in small quantities. The chickens would dig up any visible soil for the worms and kill the young plants. Next year we will be better organized. Everything just grows like crazy here including weeds.

Unfortunately either a raccoon or an eagle/hawk or a weasel got our three chickens, so next year when the garden is better protected from them, we will get some again.

Our life is certainly different than when we lived in the north.

Antibiotics are dangerous anyways. Lots of better ways to fight infection/pathogens besides that garbola.

Thanks for the link Eve. That takes community garden to a different level.

I hear ya Eric, Nowadays @ the butcher I have noticed a grassfed sign. Difficulty is whether to believe it. Butcher may be honest but…..

Initially I fed my chickens what I got at the animal feed store and then I switched to one that didn't have corn (GMO) and then I thought I would try sprouted grain, then they died at the mouth of a predator. They always had access to the backyard and our food scraps.

I can tell the difference between our eggs and the farmer's market eggs. Ours were much better.

One interesting thing I found out along the way, was when I started learning about Bach Flower Remedies, I started giving them 1 drop per ounce of Rescue remedy in their drinking water.

Literally overnight the one hen that was 'henpecked' started laying daily. Previously she had layed maybe ½ dozen in the past year.

Egg production immediately increased. After awhile I added some other remedies into the mix and there seemed to be less aggression. (henpecking)

I've told others about this, but no idea if they tried it.

Here is the recipe.

Get a dropper bottle and put 2 drops of Rescue Remedy in it per 1 ounce. Then top the bottle off with very clean water (so it doesn't get scummy).

Then put one drop of the diluted RR in the dropper bottle into the drinking water for every ounce in the drinking water container.

The resultant mixture is homeopathic in action.

I raised chickens and ducks on trays or green spouted grains and seeds for years,, lots of work.  The ideal scenario would be do find a way, an Easy way, to raise bugs for them.     You can cover moist ground and discover all sorts of bugs that move in,, however everything I could think of is toxic, like plastic, and plywood, etc..

How did you do the sprouting? Did you just put it on a large tray with water?
I filled yogurt containers but it tends to get moldy fairly fast.

I think the black soldier fly larvae method is probably the easiest. Wasn't Eve doing that at one point? And Dorothy was talking about doing it.

Where do you get the BSF?

Not that raw chicken is particularly taste tempting and not that anyone here would eat stuff from a grocery store anyways, but just to let you know what is happening….
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/08/16/antibiotic-use-in-poultry.aspx?utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20160816Z1_C&et_cid=DM113985&et_rid=1621824037

svrn,
How old are you ?

Interestingly she seems to have gained weight during the filming of the commercial.

Of course this is pathetic and the topic has been covered here a few times.

One only has to visit a food store to see all of the other pathetic food production scams to see where this will go. I say that the PPL who eat this stuf will get their just deserts.