To Peg:

Here's one! There once was a matron from Nantucket Who thought she had to have a SUVEE to truck it. One day so grand, She drove off into the sand, And dug herself in up to her bucket!

To the thread: I once was a vegetarian, might yet go back to it. I came from a family farm where we had to take care of the animals we slaughtered or we didn't eat. We also grew our veggies or we didn't eat. Did my share of game huntin' too. Mealtime choices were two: 1. Take it 2. Or leave it I STILL don't see the sense of salads (waste of garden space) or strawberries in the winter time. Where the hell do those come from? Times change, but I think we are all products of when and how we were brought up. This includes our food ideas.

I don't like waste and this Cherokee is beginning to think that we ought to buy as local as we can and support Community Sustainable Agriculture farms and REAL farmers markets! A CSA is usually a situation where you buy shares of an organic farm and you get what the farmer harvests. Up side - - good local organic produce. Down side - - you cityfied folks get to see that mother earth really does affect your food availability! Forming food co-ops are nice as well, but a whole wheel barrow full of work.

Check with your county extension agent ( every county in the U.S. of A. has one ) and see if they have a listing of CSA's and farm markets in your area. I expect you furrin' ( hillbilly for foreign ) 'catter critters have some sort of a similar government set-up.

Remember above all else, nuthin' beats a home grown tomato!