*nod nod* See, here's the thing: this is FABULOUS advice for someone who canned with their parents and wants to carry on or who wants to learn to can.
It's not so good for people who want to learn how to be better fed with more food security. Gardening is also this way:
Unless you *already know how to do them* gardening and canning do NOT necessarily save money/increase food security over buying canned.
If you're living a marginal life, it *decreases* your food security: when you commit that much of your resources to A Project, you raise the risks of losing that whole large chunk instead of a few much smaller chunks here and there.
Gardening has the same problem, magnified variously according to one's living access to good soil and one's climate zone, among other issues: might be great. Might eat your money and give you back $15.00/kg lopsided tomatoes and more experience of the life cycle of the potato weevil than anyone anywhere ever ought to have.
As with your great suggestion, there are ways to reduce the start up costs of gardening, but they, too, require you to have access to a) a car b) gas money c) time.
Hunting is a third thing I'd class in this category of stuff which can, if you already enjoy it, be used to improve your food security but aren't generally worth taking up with that in mind.
I may do a post on those three things, actually, hmm.
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Re: repurposed jars
Date: 2011-12-15 06:52 am (UTC)It's not so good for people who want to learn how to be better fed with more food security. Gardening is also this way:
Unless you *already know how to do them* gardening and canning do NOT necessarily save money/increase food security over buying canned.
If you're living a marginal life, it *decreases* your food security: when you commit that much of your resources to A Project, you raise the risks of losing that whole large chunk instead of a few much smaller chunks here and there.
Gardening has the same problem, magnified variously according to one's living access to good soil and one's climate zone, among other issues: might be great. Might eat your money and give you back $15.00/kg lopsided tomatoes and more experience of the life cycle of the potato weevil than anyone anywhere ever ought to have.
As with your great suggestion, there are ways to reduce the start up costs of gardening, but they, too, require you to have access to a) a car b) gas money c) time.
Hunting is a third thing I'd class in this category of stuff which can, if you already enjoy it, be used to improve your food security but aren't generally worth taking up with that in mind.
I may do a post on those three things, actually, hmm.