Currently playing the game of how much can i reduce my grocery bill by growing as much food as possible.

7 chickens give me about 5 eggs a day. I eat about 3 per day and freeze the rest into egg patties for breakfast sandwitches and use in cooking stuff like fried rice.

4 Apple Trees gave me around 10 bushels of apples last year. Looking for 12 this year. 3 gallons of sauce made last year, looking for 4-5 this year.

Cherry Tree gave me only a gallon or so of cherries, the damn birds eat them the day they turn ripe. I think i'm going to let them have them as they're too tart to eat. Baking cherries only.

2 Pear trees gave me 2 bushels last year. Looking to double that, eat most of them in the fall but i peal, halve, boil, add cinnamon, and freeze a lot.

15 foot x 50 foot red raspberry patch, last year I harvested only about 10 gallons of berries. WAY down from 2016 due to bad rain/heat index. Season looking good. Looking for 30 gallons of berries, half or more frozen. 1-2 batches of preserves = whole year of jelly. Quarter that out of my smaller black raspberry patch, if i'm lucky.

5 18 inch diameter pots allocated to spring onions, rotate them 3-2 so after a few weeks i have small onions all year, i grow these in our porch and they over-winter well.

2 36 inch whisky barrels for spring lettuce mix. 3 foot x 6 foot raised bed with 10 varieties of lettuce. Grown with zero space between = no weeding, stops water from evaporating. Once mature you cut an entire row of lettuce and let it grow back. Last year we got so much lettuce i was giving half to the chickens and we ate so many salads i thought i'd shit pure green. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWeFH1MVHko

3 foot x 6 foot bed of strawberries. As this is year 2, and i wasn't even supposed to get fruit last year (got about 3 gallons on the year) i'm shooting for about 10 gallons of berries on the season.

6 broccoli plants, 6 cauliflower plants, large bed of carrots, large bed of potatoes, large bed of onions, 2 varieties of peas, 2 varieties of beans, 2 varieties of cucumbers, 2 varieties of Kale, sweet corn, 3 hot peppers, 4 bell peppers, 2 canning tomatoes, 2 cherry tomatoes, separate bed of sorghum and pumpkins for the chickens to eat.

3 deer tags filled, 10 rabbits, 3 pheasant, 4 ducks, 20 lbs fish, is my game goal.

This post was edited by thesnipa on May 7 2018 08:42am

Eggs are so cheap now that you almost break even if you're buying scratch feed

The main thing I like is that if you're feeding your birds properly the eggshells aren't super thin so you don't need to keep them in the fridge

Yup, its basically a break even endeavor on grains. I feed mine all of my food scraps, and at the end of the year we always purge all of our meat that's 2 years old. I have a big old kettle, and i dice everything up and put it on the camp fire with all of the leftover pumpkins diced up from the year. It makes a big mushy lump paste that we freeze and feed to the birds to get them some protein all winter. This was our first winter doing that and we only went through 1 bag of grain feed all winter to supplement. Makes good use of shitty old containers also since freezer burn wont stop the birds, we freeze most of it in gallon zip locs that we wash and save from the year. I feed them back their shells all year so they have really hard shells.

between tomatoes, grass clippings, pumpkins, and other assorted stuff we feed them all summer on almost no grain. I have a sweeper for my mower so i get all their bedding for the run for free. the coop i fill with paper shreddings rather than pine shavings, so that's free as well. Even have a rain barrel to fill their waterer.

year one i spent WAY too much on my birds. figuring i'd get more eggs if i pampered them with good grain feed, but they produce better on scraps and veggies.

Ill send u fish via mail

Lmk

lol plenty of fish on a normal year. we do a week long fishing trip and i usually go out trolling for walleye a few times each summer. last year we came back from up north with like 15 lbs of panfish.

what fishing you normally do?

Wading in salt water 4 reds

1 sec ill get a pic



This post was edited by Haseo on May 7 2018 12:13pm

damn nice! never done any salt water fishing personally but always wanted to

Sadly they aren't coming out like this now season is just starting... needs warmer water i think..

And you caught none of those lel

send me fresh eggs plz i pay in lvl 24 gear