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RE: Inquiry to Homesteaders and Preppers- What Motivates you to do what you do?
I am not so definitively describable as a "prepper" but I do many prepper things. For me it's a quest for knowledge about who I am through struggle. I keep my free ranging livestock and garden remotely and it has been a crazy challenge over the last 5 years. I don't fear a thing or want a thing as much as I simply "drive ahead" and try to plan for my comfort. I don't keep chairs where I work because I shouldn't be sitting kind of person. The topic intrigued me however :D
And besides, when you have lil fluff waiting for her special treats who can resist.
lil fluff on a stripped down rv frame - photo by @empath
Thanks for your response!! Lovely little fluff! We had some like her when I was growing up. :) I find what you said interesting: "it's quest for knowledge about who I am through struggle." Gardening and taking care of animals can be a lot of work. You mentioned "planning for your comfort." If you don't mind me asking, what does that comfort look like to you? Thanks for engaging!
I guess they are creature comforts like the example of garlic. I love to roast garlic for my girlfriend. Growing it took me failing the first time (didnt realize its one you plant in the fall.) But I feel comforted that I have learned and stepped out of that box.
Mmmmmm roasted garlic IS yummy!!
I have planted it is the spring, from the small leftovers from the previous year, and it does just as well as the garlic that was planted in the fall. Why do you say it was a failure?
I just have too short of a season. We were able to use the tops from the spring garlic but the fall planted garlic grows all winter and almost into July for me. Just before July I recognize that 5 leaves yellowed and harvest. I suppose they just werent the size that I had hoped for until I tried the fall plantings.
I recognize this size problem from our first garlic crops. Since then I have read about and tried to cut off the garlic scapes, or flowers, so the development goes into the garlic bulbs. That has made quite a difference in our short growing season in New Hampshire. I do like garlic and we have enough to keep all year in our "cold room" and the little ones that are left in the spring I just plant.
The scapes, already cut off for this year, I keep in a jar on the counter and chop up and add it whatever I am cooking most nights.