Ed, we don't pay for food, we grow and catch our own - in the main and the
rest gets sold. We even grow our own tea and coffee beans. We have our own
spelt and triticale that gets stone ground for flour for bread and other
uses.
Being as old as you are, you would remember the bottling outfits, well we
bottle the fruit and freeze the vegetables in season so they we have
supplies the whole year round. What we do not have ourselves, we get from
our organic neighbours and they get from us. Paying for food is not very
smart when you can do it all yourself.
However, we are always willing to share what we have with others. I would
never see anybody go hungry or homeless.
Only filled up the freezer in the last month as the spring stock is always
the best. The goat and pork we have this year is just the best. They were
fed on the excess milk from the dairy and grazed on some of the best organic
pastures and vegetables. The kangaroo and wallaby is not as good as
previous years, because of the drought last year, but it made better jerky.
The beef has always been milk, grain and pasture fed, so cannot improve on
that. When you come over to visit, I will show you what real chicken and
duck tastes like. The new farm manageress we put on eighteen months ago has
lifted the quality of everything.
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