Personal consumption, Do you help produce some of what you use? Options

[Denise]

We all know how much we consume daily, especially when it comes to food and power.
What I want to know is how many of us produce some of the things we consume.

We use solor panels for our power and have a garden with many edible goodies. Every bit helps!
Do you hunt or raise your own meat, have a garden or fruit trees, use solor panels or a wind turbine, etc.?
We would love to hear about it!

[CP]

Very cool everyone, even if we don't produce all of what our families consume, every little bit helps. Especially in years like we've had lately with the poor economy on it's supposed recovery.

Now we have a drought which they say will effect our food prices even through the meats/dairy products not just produce over the next year.

This year is only our second year for the garden at this local and we are having much better luck this year than last. Our soils here are very dense heavy sandy soils so it's been some trial and error. We've had several isolated hail/t-storms one of which actually did some damage to the garden early on but lucky for us the only thing that really got damaged was the corn and it was all under stage V-6 so we should still get full yeild from them.
We also have some carrots, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, lettuce, tomatoes, habenaro and mixed bell peppers and some onions all of which are doing great thus far....barring anymore of the isolated storms.
Gonna' be some good salads!!

We also use solar power plus a wind turbine with 12v battery set up/inverters for power as well as a generator for days the battery bank (small) recieves no sun or we use more than is collected. But we produce 100% of our electricity used including running/up keep of this website.

Keep up the great work everyone and keep posting your production!

Get-R-Done'!