Sir_Loin_of_Beef
Chef Extraordinaire
The city of Port Hueneme limits backyard chickens to two, and no roosters. I go through an 18 egg carton about once a week. Who the hell am I going to scare with two crummy chickens?
I think the limit in my city is six and no roosters. I believe the limit is to prevent the noise and odor from becoming a nuisance to neighbors.The city of Port Hueneme limits backyard chickens to two, and no roosters. I go through an 18 egg carton about once a week. Who the hell am I going to scare with two crummy chickens?
Hi Casey. I didn't really see a lot of hostility, just differing opinions. And above all, taste is subjective. What one person says is amazingly awesome, the next will say ugh, no way. The bottom line is what you like. Keep doing what you're doing, and buying what you like.
(By the way - living here in the desert, I love Birkenstocks and yes, my feet do, too. )
And now for a completely different opinion..
Organic farming could feed the world.
Can Organic Farming Feed Us All? | Worldwatch Institute
...a recent study by scientists at the Research Institute for Organic Agriculture in Switzerland showed that organic farms were only 20 percent less productive than conventional plots over a 21-year period. Looking at more than 200 studies in North America and Europe, Per Pinstrup Andersen (a Cornell professor and winner of the World Food Prize) and colleagues recently concluded that organic yields were about 80 percent of conventional yields.
Very interesting read. I shouldn't have been so surprised that organic farming can actually out produce conventional agriculture in developing nations.And now for a completely different opinion..
Organic farming could feed the world.
Can Organic Farming Feed Us All? | Worldwatch Institute
That's one source that says so and they have an obvious bias. Important to keep in mind.Very interesting read. I shouldn't have been so surprised that organic farming can actually out produce conventional agriculture in developing nations.
I don't buy organic, but I might if I could afford it. I have tasted both organic and regular strawberries, though, and I have to say, I sure didn't notice a difference. To me, the only way vegetables that ever tasted good were the ones I grew and picked from my garden when I had one. I even grew watermelon one year and it was so delicious - unlike anything you can buy in a grocery store. That's one reason I so seldom eat any vegetables that are for sale in the store. I always say if I wanted to eat cardboard, I'd go chew on a box.
I do agree that plants seem to do well on their own when it comes to pests. I had roses that were covered with aphids one year. I was going to douse them with a soap mixture, but I was lazy so I kept putting it off. Then one day I noticed I had hundreds of lady bugs all over the roses and in a couple days, no aphids at all. The rest of my garden and plants were never sprayed in the 4 years I had a garden and I never had a problem. Not even with the corn. The only pests I couldn't get rid of were the ground squirrels that dug up and ate my beans as soon as I planted them and the birds that ate my lettuce. But they were all so cute I didn't care.
With so much controversy in this thread alone, I just stick to the foods and brands that I have developed a liking for over the years, I just ignore the whole subject.
I have found that if I collect cigarette ashes and mix them in the soil, I never got the black fungus. found on the leaves of rose bushes. Tobacco is a plant, the same as roses. Does that make it organic roses? Yet there is enough nicotine in just one cigarette to poison a two year old child. So does that make it a poisonous fertilizer? So much discussion over what is natural and what isn't. Not a subject I ever cared to get involved with.
Casey... I have never bought anything "organic"... at least not on purpose. Might have done so accidentally. I have never seen anything 'organic' on sale. That being said... I have never looked either.
so now, having tried organic butter... is the butter better? or bitter, or ... oh oh - didn't think this one through - ran out of rhymes...