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October 9, 2010 at 10:44 PM #616423October 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM #615392
CricketOnTheHearth
ParticipantLarge acreage is also an insurance policy, because if things go to **** you can raise a large portion of your own food on it.
I’m serious.
The place I’m renting now has a lemon tree in the front and a loquat in the back. Both trees bombard us with way more fruit than we can ever eat. If I had access to enough space to store it (don’t, the one housemate is a pack rat), I could do some serious canning. As it is, we keep half the neighborhood in lemons and they really appreciate it, b/c lemons are expensive in the stores.
San Diego is a great place to raise fruit, potatoes (in the winter), chickens, avocados, you name it. What you don’t eat yourself you can barter off to others for what they’re growing. Farmer’s markets are booming and are all over the county now.
First thing to do when you get that house is to pick a patch of ground and start improving it for growing garden crops in it. Work in lots of compost, that stuff that “breaks up hard soil”, maybe some sand also to loosen the dirt. Start now and in a couple of years you’ll have some pretty good soil. Don’t stint on developing the dirt, then you can get good crops out of it.
Oh, and yes, you could raise chickens. They are legal in San Diego, Poway, Escondido, and quite possibly other municipalities too. Also, you can buy just hens, so you don’t have a rooster crowing to get the neighbors upset. And their are egg-laying breeds (that lay like mad even w/o a rooster) if you are not into killing and plucking chickens.
Although a friend once told me that his neighbors’ home-grown chickens were hands-down the most delicious chicken he had ever eaten.
October 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM #615478CricketOnTheHearth
ParticipantLarge acreage is also an insurance policy, because if things go to **** you can raise a large portion of your own food on it.
I’m serious.
The place I’m renting now has a lemon tree in the front and a loquat in the back. Both trees bombard us with way more fruit than we can ever eat. If I had access to enough space to store it (don’t, the one housemate is a pack rat), I could do some serious canning. As it is, we keep half the neighborhood in lemons and they really appreciate it, b/c lemons are expensive in the stores.
San Diego is a great place to raise fruit, potatoes (in the winter), chickens, avocados, you name it. What you don’t eat yourself you can barter off to others for what they’re growing. Farmer’s markets are booming and are all over the county now.
First thing to do when you get that house is to pick a patch of ground and start improving it for growing garden crops in it. Work in lots of compost, that stuff that “breaks up hard soil”, maybe some sand also to loosen the dirt. Start now and in a couple of years you’ll have some pretty good soil. Don’t stint on developing the dirt, then you can get good crops out of it.
Oh, and yes, you could raise chickens. They are legal in San Diego, Poway, Escondido, and quite possibly other municipalities too. Also, you can buy just hens, so you don’t have a rooster crowing to get the neighbors upset. And their are egg-laying breeds (that lay like mad even w/o a rooster) if you are not into killing and plucking chickens.
Although a friend once told me that his neighbors’ home-grown chickens were hands-down the most delicious chicken he had ever eaten.
October 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM #616030CricketOnTheHearth
ParticipantLarge acreage is also an insurance policy, because if things go to **** you can raise a large portion of your own food on it.
I’m serious.
The place I’m renting now has a lemon tree in the front and a loquat in the back. Both trees bombard us with way more fruit than we can ever eat. If I had access to enough space to store it (don’t, the one housemate is a pack rat), I could do some serious canning. As it is, we keep half the neighborhood in lemons and they really appreciate it, b/c lemons are expensive in the stores.
San Diego is a great place to raise fruit, potatoes (in the winter), chickens, avocados, you name it. What you don’t eat yourself you can barter off to others for what they’re growing. Farmer’s markets are booming and are all over the county now.
First thing to do when you get that house is to pick a patch of ground and start improving it for growing garden crops in it. Work in lots of compost, that stuff that “breaks up hard soil”, maybe some sand also to loosen the dirt. Start now and in a couple of years you’ll have some pretty good soil. Don’t stint on developing the dirt, then you can get good crops out of it.
Oh, and yes, you could raise chickens. They are legal in San Diego, Poway, Escondido, and quite possibly other municipalities too. Also, you can buy just hens, so you don’t have a rooster crowing to get the neighbors upset. And their are egg-laying breeds (that lay like mad even w/o a rooster) if you are not into killing and plucking chickens.
Although a friend once told me that his neighbors’ home-grown chickens were hands-down the most delicious chicken he had ever eaten.
October 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM #616151CricketOnTheHearth
ParticipantLarge acreage is also an insurance policy, because if things go to **** you can raise a large portion of your own food on it.
I’m serious.
The place I’m renting now has a lemon tree in the front and a loquat in the back. Both trees bombard us with way more fruit than we can ever eat. If I had access to enough space to store it (don’t, the one housemate is a pack rat), I could do some serious canning. As it is, we keep half the neighborhood in lemons and they really appreciate it, b/c lemons are expensive in the stores.
San Diego is a great place to raise fruit, potatoes (in the winter), chickens, avocados, you name it. What you don’t eat yourself you can barter off to others for what they’re growing. Farmer’s markets are booming and are all over the county now.
First thing to do when you get that house is to pick a patch of ground and start improving it for growing garden crops in it. Work in lots of compost, that stuff that “breaks up hard soil”, maybe some sand also to loosen the dirt. Start now and in a couple of years you’ll have some pretty good soil. Don’t stint on developing the dirt, then you can get good crops out of it.
Oh, and yes, you could raise chickens. They are legal in San Diego, Poway, Escondido, and quite possibly other municipalities too. Also, you can buy just hens, so you don’t have a rooster crowing to get the neighbors upset. And their are egg-laying breeds (that lay like mad even w/o a rooster) if you are not into killing and plucking chickens.
Although a friend once told me that his neighbors’ home-grown chickens were hands-down the most delicious chicken he had ever eaten.
October 10, 2010 at 7:56 AM #616468CricketOnTheHearth
ParticipantLarge acreage is also an insurance policy, because if things go to **** you can raise a large portion of your own food on it.
I’m serious.
The place I’m renting now has a lemon tree in the front and a loquat in the back. Both trees bombard us with way more fruit than we can ever eat. If I had access to enough space to store it (don’t, the one housemate is a pack rat), I could do some serious canning. As it is, we keep half the neighborhood in lemons and they really appreciate it, b/c lemons are expensive in the stores.
San Diego is a great place to raise fruit, potatoes (in the winter), chickens, avocados, you name it. What you don’t eat yourself you can barter off to others for what they’re growing. Farmer’s markets are booming and are all over the county now.
First thing to do when you get that house is to pick a patch of ground and start improving it for growing garden crops in it. Work in lots of compost, that stuff that “breaks up hard soil”, maybe some sand also to loosen the dirt. Start now and in a couple of years you’ll have some pretty good soil. Don’t stint on developing the dirt, then you can get good crops out of it.
Oh, and yes, you could raise chickens. They are legal in San Diego, Poway, Escondido, and quite possibly other municipalities too. Also, you can buy just hens, so you don’t have a rooster crowing to get the neighbors upset. And their are egg-laying breeds (that lay like mad even w/o a rooster) if you are not into killing and plucking chickens.
Although a friend once told me that his neighbors’ home-grown chickens were hands-down the most delicious chicken he had ever eaten.
October 10, 2010 at 8:16 AM #615422jpinpb
Participantyes, scaredy. Cricket is right. I wish I could find a place 50% off w/some land where I’m looking. You can garden and grow your own food. That is extra insurance b/c it makes you jsut a little more self-reliant.
Ok. Now I’m jealous. Be happy, scaredy. You are doing good. Keep us posted.
October 10, 2010 at 8:16 AM #615506jpinpb
Participantyes, scaredy. Cricket is right. I wish I could find a place 50% off w/some land where I’m looking. You can garden and grow your own food. That is extra insurance b/c it makes you jsut a little more self-reliant.
Ok. Now I’m jealous. Be happy, scaredy. You are doing good. Keep us posted.
October 10, 2010 at 8:16 AM #616060jpinpb
Participantyes, scaredy. Cricket is right. I wish I could find a place 50% off w/some land where I’m looking. You can garden and grow your own food. That is extra insurance b/c it makes you jsut a little more self-reliant.
Ok. Now I’m jealous. Be happy, scaredy. You are doing good. Keep us posted.
October 10, 2010 at 8:16 AM #616181jpinpb
Participantyes, scaredy. Cricket is right. I wish I could find a place 50% off w/some land where I’m looking. You can garden and grow your own food. That is extra insurance b/c it makes you jsut a little more self-reliant.
Ok. Now I’m jealous. Be happy, scaredy. You are doing good. Keep us posted.
October 10, 2010 at 8:16 AM #616497jpinpb
Participantyes, scaredy. Cricket is right. I wish I could find a place 50% off w/some land where I’m looking. You can garden and grow your own food. That is extra insurance b/c it makes you jsut a little more self-reliant.
Ok. Now I’m jealous. Be happy, scaredy. You are doing good. Keep us posted.
October 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM #615525joec
Participant[quote=walterwhite]i had a pal who lived in a cheap motor home out near work for a year or so. I submit you do not need a house to live in.[/quote]
You don’t need much of anything in life. As I mentioned in another post, most of probably what other people spend their money on is probably a waste of money for you.
Your original comment above of: “I need to because my wife wants to do this.”
alone is enough for you and probably a lot of us to just buy a place and be done with it.
I was in the same boat, no regrets…
Also, like the other comment, if you had a baggillion dollars everywhere else but housing, putting 500k is probably a prudent move since you’re diversifying and again, you must have a place to live. Who knows, maybe the government will offer everyone who is a home owner 1% loans that they can also deduct on the tax returns directly and cut out all the banks with no income or asset verification.
Most folks would probably find it cheaper to buy than rent.
October 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM #615610joec
Participant[quote=walterwhite]i had a pal who lived in a cheap motor home out near work for a year or so. I submit you do not need a house to live in.[/quote]
You don’t need much of anything in life. As I mentioned in another post, most of probably what other people spend their money on is probably a waste of money for you.
Your original comment above of: “I need to because my wife wants to do this.”
alone is enough for you and probably a lot of us to just buy a place and be done with it.
I was in the same boat, no regrets…
Also, like the other comment, if you had a baggillion dollars everywhere else but housing, putting 500k is probably a prudent move since you’re diversifying and again, you must have a place to live. Who knows, maybe the government will offer everyone who is a home owner 1% loans that they can also deduct on the tax returns directly and cut out all the banks with no income or asset verification.
Most folks would probably find it cheaper to buy than rent.
October 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM #616165joec
Participant[quote=walterwhite]i had a pal who lived in a cheap motor home out near work for a year or so. I submit you do not need a house to live in.[/quote]
You don’t need much of anything in life. As I mentioned in another post, most of probably what other people spend their money on is probably a waste of money for you.
Your original comment above of: “I need to because my wife wants to do this.”
alone is enough for you and probably a lot of us to just buy a place and be done with it.
I was in the same boat, no regrets…
Also, like the other comment, if you had a baggillion dollars everywhere else but housing, putting 500k is probably a prudent move since you’re diversifying and again, you must have a place to live. Who knows, maybe the government will offer everyone who is a home owner 1% loans that they can also deduct on the tax returns directly and cut out all the banks with no income or asset verification.
Most folks would probably find it cheaper to buy than rent.
October 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM #616286joec
Participant[quote=walterwhite]i had a pal who lived in a cheap motor home out near work for a year or so. I submit you do not need a house to live in.[/quote]
You don’t need much of anything in life. As I mentioned in another post, most of probably what other people spend their money on is probably a waste of money for you.
Your original comment above of: “I need to because my wife wants to do this.”
alone is enough for you and probably a lot of us to just buy a place and be done with it.
I was in the same boat, no regrets…
Also, like the other comment, if you had a baggillion dollars everywhere else but housing, putting 500k is probably a prudent move since you’re diversifying and again, you must have a place to live. Who knows, maybe the government will offer everyone who is a home owner 1% loans that they can also deduct on the tax returns directly and cut out all the banks with no income or asset verification.
Most folks would probably find it cheaper to buy than rent.
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