Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

We aren't to this point yet but have a similar philosophy. For one thing, as you get older I think it's easier to weed out what is important and what isn't. We are going to build a summer kitchen with a woodstove as well as a root cellar (plans on Mother Earth) to hold more food for storage. I am intrigued by the iceless refrigerator. Any proven plans that can be shared would be appreciated. We have increased our food production each year. DH is 62 and I'm 57. We can still work circles around our kids so we are preparing for whatever comes down the pike.

--- In MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com, brchbell@... wrote:
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> Well for us, Taxes have gotten out of control. Retired so on fixed
> monthly income and with income greatly reduced our taxes thanks to our
> state was $1,500 more than ever before. Dryer breaks down every 6 months.
> At least $80 each time so I said no more dryer this time. When something
> breaks down we'll live without it. Dh made me an awesome clothes line.
> Can handle 3 loads of laundry at one time. Next my desktop computer died.
> Family hovered (probably praying!)to see if Mom would give in and get the
> computer fixed or get a new one. Nope It's gone and life goes on (now
> they are probably praying faithfully over their own computers!) I built a
> iceless, powerless fridge a few weeks ago and it works great. So during
> the summer we could have a place to keep milk, ect. if the power goes
> we'll be fine. Already had it go out for 3 weeks with minus temps and
> winds out this world and survived without the furnace and no we didn't
> have a wood stove (DH won't let me get one due to 3 of having severe
> asthma) We used little emergency heaters made up of TP soaked in rubbing
> alcohol. cooked over them and heated with them. Stayed above 50 the whole
> time. Have a good garden and our own water supply. we'll make it just
> fine. We do have horses and two are broke to pull a wagon but have no
> hardware to make that happen but do at least have saddles. US economy is
> going down hill fast. Hope you store food and prepare ahead of time so
> you will be ready.
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> > Georgiawoman, if you could pick one way that would help you get
> > along, what would it be.. have you looked at sustainability ???...
> > do you garden, plant, grow vegetables ???... what's the one thing
> > in your position do you think would make things easier for you.....
> > and l'll see if l can help... please reply.. thank you
> > To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
> > From: gamountainwoman@...
> > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:18:14 +0000
> > Subject: [MittleiderMethodGardening] No car, No job, No money, No
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