i am listening to an interview with Barbara Kingsolver about the year she spent living off of what she and her family were able to produce.

You can hear this show at Speaking of Faith:

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I love the idea of producing the food that I eat but, ultimately, it's still just easier to buy it at the farmer's market. Easier and still fairly cheap for me just to feed myself. Today, I bought, rhubarb, apples for cooking, zucchini and summer squash, potatoes, kale, cucumbers, and organic lettuse. I bought enough vegetables for myself for a week for under $15.

I do have my herb plants and a few pepper plants but those are more for my entertainment than for actual food production. Every year, I toy with the idea of signing up for a garden plot up at the community garden in the park, but I always wimp out in the end.

Hmm, maybe next year....