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Gardening

Mr.Bill

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6. My wife does a lot of canning, and we grow and buy a lot of organic vegetables from local farms.

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Thu Aug 20, 2020, 02:22 PM

Aug 2020

We don't do it to save money. We do it because it's a good retirement hobby, and because we know what we can has not had a chemical spraying airplane dump who knows what on our vegetables.

And some of the things we can can not be matched in quality by anything at the grocery store, or doesn't exist period.

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The economics of canning [View all] Kaleva Aug 2020 OP

what or how do you serve fermented tomatoes...what are they called? Kali Aug 2020 #1

Fermented tomatoes are popular in Eastern Europe Kaleva Aug 2020 #2

interesting, never heard of it Kali Aug 2020 #4

I've never heard of fermented tomatoes. How long do they keep and how do you use them? Arkansas Granny Aug 2020 #3

If you do a search on YouTube, you'd find lots of videos. Kaleva Aug 2020 #5

My wife does a lot of canning, and we grow and buy a lot of organic vegetables from local farms. Mr.Bill Aug 2020 #6

Some people really enjoy canning and as I said, they find great value in that. Kaleva Aug 2020 #8

I'm doing some canning this year forkol Aug 2020 #7

Like raising chickens. For most, it doesn't make economic sense. Kaleva Aug 2020 #9