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Compost ingredients?
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I could relate to the difficulty of eating vegetarian in Alaska. It was even worse when I was there in the 1970s; there was no farmer's market and hardly anybody was a vegetarian. When I moved down the Coast to Oregon (I later settled in the Seattle area), I was overwhelmed by the bounty of good produce. When I was going to the U of O, there were FREE plums, apples, tomatoes, etc., from people's gardens--they would just put them out on the curb, or put up a sign saying, "Please pick the plums." I loved it! "Jan Flora" wrote in message ... In article , Pat Meadows wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 12:28:36 -0700, wrote: Eggs don't have faces, neither does milk. However seafood does. These people need to make up their minds. It's simple - the generally accepted definitions go like this: vegetarian - eats no dead animals (this is the simplest way to express it), many eat both eggs and milk, some eat one but not the other [1]. vegan - eats no dead animals and no animal products either (no eggs, no dairy foods, usually no honey) Many vegans also do not use leather, or other similar animal-based products. [2]. It's somewhat irritating to vegetarians when those who eat seafood or chicken (for instance) call themselves 'vegetarians' because this creates confusion. Yep, it does cause confusion. I know a lot of folks who don't eat red meat, but eat seafood & poultry and call themselves vegetarians. I have a cousin who is a vegan, who always looks too thin & puny. It's hard in Alaska to be able to afford a totally veggie diet, because veggies are *so* expensive up here. A cucumber is $1.49 at the market. A peach is $1.50. An organic cuke at the Farmer's Market can cost you $3. (We can't grow peaches here.) An artichoke is normally $3. OTOH, 10# of Alaska-grown spuds is $2.99 and 5# of Alaska-grown carrots is $2.99. We can grow root crops and brassicas up here like crazy, but can't grow hot weather crops commercially and sell them cheaply. Hothouse 'maters up here are $4/lb all year long. I don't know what the organic 'maters cost at the Farmers Market. Rice & beans are cheap up here, by the 50 or 100# sacks, but you need a balanced diet and greens are just flat expensive in the north. Lots of us forage for greens and mushrooms, but we have 7 months of snow here, so the foraging season is limited. I don't think of tofu as "food," but you probably do. Someone gave me a soyburger once without telling me what it was. I commented on it tasting funny. She spat, "It's soy, what's wrong with it??" I said, "It ain't bad, but I'm a beef cattle rancher." She inspected her shoes, until her face quit being red. [...] Pat (not a vegetarian at the moment, but have been one in the past and likely will be again in the future) I've never been a vegetarian, per se, but at times have quit eating meat because I was too poor to buy meat (going to college) or for health reasons, when I had to take the heavy protein load off my system. I feel better when I limit my meat intake. Pop lives on meat and spuds. I'm able to juggle our menu so he gets lots of meat and I get big salads and some meat, and we're both happy. Tofu sucks, IMO. Big salads, OTOH, rock, especially when they come out of your own garden : ) And, IMO, broccali is a food group. I just love it, so I have 8 broccali plants in my garden. (I'm misspelling it, huh? *laugh*) Jan PS: Since this thread started with compost, I have to report that the compost pile I started at about the same time we started this thread -- well, it's done. It got hot; it cooked along; I turned it last night and it's done. I found a good website for any northern gardeners who don't think they can make good, hot compost, written by a gal down on Kodiak Island, Alaska. (150 miles south of me.) Also looked at the Compost Calculator website and got my C:: N ratio pretty close. That's probably what did the trick. That's a *very* cool website. |
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