I still can't get used to our neighbors raising pigs and chickens and being able to buy eggs and meat directly from them. Perks of living in a small village.
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There's a bunch of "public order officers" (Ordgnungsamt) always roaming around my neighborhood, and they have very light trigger for fines and things like that.
So I think if it were illegal she'd gotten a fine already.
Great idea, you should continue, afterall the geat conman, fraudster, grifter, Trump, has already admitted that he won't be able to bring down the price of groceries caused by corporate greed, not Pres. Biden. Kroger's admitted to price gouging.
Last Saturday -- walked the snowy four blocks from my house to the three-block-long "center of town". Went to the (independent) bakery. Bought a still-warm-out-of-the-oven sourdough batard; chatted with the baker and a few of the staff. Walked home, slices for breakfast. Small towns!
I've gotten so sick of the crap chicken to get sold in stores that is completely unsuitable for making soup out of. I finally went to a farm market and bought some pieced up carcasses that had most of the meat taken off but still made great soup with it. I guess I'm going to have to raise my own
That's amazing. My ex-coworker and his wife left the city to a rural small village and I have huge respect for such courage. Always wanted to do the same, but still too much of a coward. One day hopefully.
Also, they would peel easier when hard-boiled. I can’t peel an egg to save my life without it bringing chunks of white off of it. Deviled eggs look like crap now
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Ah, I see. When we moved here 7 years ago, there were days where it will be quite smelly due to the pigs in a house really near us that could do a better job with cleaning them. Luckily that's no longer the case.
The chickens, yes. The pigs, they aren't small pets. Maybe we could ask when they have little ones. The kids can pet goats they bring in the town parties.
I’ll never forget visiting friends in the North Country and walking to one neighbor farm to buy eggs, and another neighbor farm to buy bacon. Best breakfast I had in my life. You hear me? IN MY LIFE!
true, it's dearer than overvalued massproduced stuff.
if you buy something that's wroth 5$ with 5$ that's totally acceptable, what's not is buying something that's worth 1.50$ with 5$.
It's why the corporate world wants us all packed into cities. Not only does it make us easier to control, it makes us dependent on them in able for us to eat.
I love it. I go to the food bank and we get a pound of hamburger and fresh meat that is from a local butcher. We also get fresh fish and vegetables and fruit all local.
Imagine if our cities wereike this, made of mainly self-sustaining communities in which skills and production are shared, with links to other places for trade. Oh well, I guess I'll just have another drink instead
I don't think it changed that much. My wife's mother garden, in another town, had a way bigger impact on me. Seeing the whole process from seed to having tomatoes in a jar for winter for example (and keeping some seeds from the best ones for next year).
To get to any of the 4 supermarkets surrounding the valley, I have to drive past at least 4 different farm-tailers, but they're mostly too expensive so I drive out of my way to go to the cheap unattended farmstand.
I live by the beach in Daytona. People have been raising hens for thousands of years. Timer on the henhouse door, one egg per chicken per day. 50# good feed $17/6wks= $0.08 per egg. And fun.
a lot of cities allow personal chickens nowadays so long as they don't roam the neighborhood. but in florida, they often get eaten by wild animals if not contained. I had a friend who lost a few and she never knew what ate them. a few were eaten next door by raccoons or maybe an owl I can't remember
the one chicken that survived next door had ptsd after the event and became mostly an indoor chicken. although, sometimes she'd escape the screened in porch and visit us during the daytime. she didn't like to be alone so she was really nice and very sociable
I've had pet hens for 12 years. Had a raccoon kill two of the five once. Replaced with two poults, three years later a huge red hawk killed one, was trying to take it home and my tuxedo cat jumped the hawk as he flew away, missing some tail feathers. Chicken feed attracts rodents, that cats control.
My neighbor forgot to put her chickens in the coop one night and a bobcat got one…then came back for another. Then another. Then finally a fourth. All on her critter cam.
I guess I'm lucky. Just south of Napa, CA, with a number of farms that sell directly and a year round farmers market. But I'd still hesitate to buy eggs right now as it's also a bird migration path. Buying natural means staying current on various issues.
We have all our own chickens, horses and moose for meat and garden for almost year round vegetables. It's a game changer to not rely on food sources 100%. Start your own little garden in raised planters if you don't have a lot of space! 🥰
Patio tomatoes grow great in 5-gallon buckets! Lettuce will grow if you use an old pallet as a planter leaned up on its side! If you have any sort of supports (think deck or carport) you can grow container cukes! Its so gratifying too.
You have to be careful these days raising chickens yourself. We just had the first bird flu death in the USA, which the woman caught from her back yard chickens.
My hometown is like this still, I get eggs and raid my dads freezer whenever I visit. I didn't realize that most folks buy their eggs from the grocery store until I went to college. Like, I knew people in cities did but I thought that was the exception not the norm.
My daughter has done that
for yrs You will wish you did moving forward. She’s not on a farm, she has just under 1 acre in the suburbs she pays
a small fee to the town for the permits to have chickens or goat so we don’t have pigs, but we have goats, sheep
You should! That's a beautiful example of community and mutual aid and supporting local farmers. I am quite jealous of you for having access to farm fresh eggs so easily.
I live in central NJ and get my eggs from a neighboring farm. I used to live in a NJ town that was more dense than Queens and my neighbors had egg laying chickens.
I dreamed of being able to give my neighbors eggs. Lived here my whole life. The folks that moved in around us are bigots though and I refuse to even talk to them. They can buy the expensive crappy eggs at the store. 😅 I wish I had good neighbors.
😭 The struggle is real. Born and raised in North Georgia, but my hopes will forever be that I can find and cultivate a community of good inclusive folks up here.
I'm trying to talk friends into moving into the area, but they aren't comfortable living as rural as I do specifically because of the bigots. It's a catch 22.
Since it's winter here in the north and the daylight is so short, our local hens are on strike and not laying much until it gets warmer and the daylight longer. So, if we want eggs now, it's grocery store. (I miss my local farm eggs of many sizes and colors.)
I'm just throwing it out there. If you buy eggs in "bulk" from your local farmer, you can water glass the eggs, and they can be stored on a pantry shelf for up to 18 months.
That must have been so nice. I grew up in a medium size town surrounded by fields in Argentina, but we never got fresh milk or meat there. Here in the village in Hungary, once a week there is someone coming to the town with fresh milk. Very good to prepare dulce de leche, that I miss from Argentina.
My ex wife and I raised goats and chickens when we had a small spread in a rural part of the central valley in California.
Would be nice to do that again here in Georgia. Help my neighbors out and make a few extra bucks now and then.
Plus... the care of livestock is a relaxing and rewarding way
Around us, four neighbors have chickens and two pigs. They are killing a pig on Saturday and they sell to others in the village as it's too much for a single family. It's still common in small places in Hungary.
Main reason to move here was for our kids. There are also hourses, sheep, and cows in the skirts of the village. They have the typical hungarian cows, Magyar Szürke.
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I recently moved but still pretty close-by so I can still benefit from some of it from my parents.
I live very much in the center of Berlin though. Only apartments, no houses, no private gardens around…
she already looks a big fed up with people staring, I wonder if someone makes an inappropriate question like that
So I think if it were illegal she'd gotten a fine already.
So that makes her a magician, because most landlords don't accept even small dogs...
if you buy something that's wroth 5$ with 5$ that's totally acceptable, what's not is buying something that's worth 1.50$ with 5$.
Also id want to play/hunt thous chickens
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Those chickens and pigs sure are something else.
I can buy fresh farm produce, meats and eggs in many towns that border my own.
people just see the immediate cost of an extra 10 minutes drives or $20 on groceries as "not worth it"
like sorry the rulers don't make the metrics of community health more perceivable but I swear it's a better deal overall lmao
for yrs You will wish you did moving forward. She’s not on a farm, she has just under 1 acre in the suburbs she pays
a small fee to the town for the permits to have chickens or goat so we don’t have pigs, but we have goats, sheep
You have to get them CLEANED but not WASHED.
Not all pigs are chickens.
Would be nice to do that again here in Georgia. Help my neighbors out and make a few extra bucks now and then.
Plus... the care of livestock is a relaxing and rewarding way
but seriously what