Them leopards is hungry for faces
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Leopards & Faces, all the way down.
Nope. Them and H1B ... as much as I hate it... time to pay the piper.
The piper never actually gets paid.
Well, they could pay for the process (and probably make a few donations to speed it up) to make these workers citizens.
Then the workers would have the documentation to get less stressful jobs that pay better.
ahahahahahahahahaha
This is complicated and it's hard to summarize, but here's what I think we all should do:
- Support small farms by shopping at farmer's markets and/or buying direct. I know it's not always easy to pay the (sometimes) higher cost but know that your money is going to families and fair wages, not corporations. Small farms often do depend on illegal workers but the more you buy from them the better the chance they'll be able to cover their absence or even get them on visas. And - pro tip - there are ways to reduce the costs**
- Wherever possible, plant your own gardens. Do this collectively to maximize yield for any one individual's effort. Take over unused urban spaces and or find or found community gardens if you don't have space.
- Let the leopards feast
** 1. Buying direct means a shorter supply chain and thus much fresher produce which is nutritionally denser and lasts longer 2. Buy only what's in season and what farms have more of - they will usually discount 3. Make friends with farms and/or volunteer some time and you will be blessed with free veggies 4. Go right at the end of market and ask for anything vendors want to get rid of - there are almost always things that won't keep and which they'll sell for much less or even give away.
Buy only what's in season
That gets a lot easier the further south you happen to be.
Not a lot of locally grown fruit and veggies in season for the next 6 months up here in the snowing latitudes.
Not a lot of locally grown fruit and veggies in season for the next 6 months up here in the snowing latitudes.
Oh how we've lost touch with our food :(
Root vegetables and winter squash are available all winter. Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage... Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer. Right at this moment I'm eating some very fresh blackberries that freeze perfectly along with some pears that I picked over a month ago and which will last probably until January. Later today I'm going to make a nice stew using some canned tomatoes, frozen garlic scapes and a bunch of other random things none of which were harvested recently.
Cole crops will grow pretty well even in weather well below freezing - e.g. kale, turnips, cabbage, etc. A good frost cover (remay/agribon/old blanket) will help greatly.
Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage... Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer
Obviously, but that's not fresh, in-season fruit and vegatables, which is what I was specifically addressing.
Why do you need a constant supply of fresh, in-season fruit and "vegatables?