@@jackmorgan1677 incorrect

materialism is okay but it's the quality of it that is in question

Masteralistic people should care about the quality of the materials they are buying, right. Framing the issue as materialism is not that simple.

We need to stand up and do our bit ourselves. I am 61, disabled and grow food for me and my wife in a pollytunnel.🤗🇿🇦

I hope I'm not out of line, but I'd like to give you a few suggestions, which may or may not apply to your situation. If you're like me, when I was buying more from the store I tended toward prepared/processed foods, and when I bought the more basic 'ingredient' items I doctored them with a lot of flavorings, because store food is nasty & needs to be doctored to be palatable. When you buy local foods, they can be prepared simply and still taste wonderful - so you can save money on processed foods & spice combinations. If you can't manage the expensive cuts of meat buy the cheaper cuts (especially roasts) and cook them 'low & slow' (heat & time) - that helps them become tender & they'll still be tasty, certainly better that store-bought. Get used to cooking at home, from scratch, in season - it will take time, and experimentation, but be worth it. If you're able, buy bulk when you buy local - there are four pints of honey in a half-gallon, but I can buy a half-gallon jar for only 2 1/2 times what I pay for a pint; same for maple syrup, and milk & cream. Learn to preserve the food you buy in bulk. Be willing to buy the 'ugly' produce that may be priced lower (I once bought beets for 10% of the usual cost because they were "leftovers" from a farmers market a few days earlier in another town and they'd gone soft...except only the golfball size were soft, the other 99% of them were just fine...I pickled the whole batch and they lasted me a full year! There's a lot to learn when buying local on a budget, but the journey is worth it - and you can get to know your farmer(s), and they're nearly always really wonderful people! I wish you well.

For sure! I'd been buying from a local farmer for a few years when covid hit - suddenly everyone wanted to avoid stores & buy from local farmers - my farmers had more orders than meat to fill them - so they stopped taking new customers. Lucky for me I'd already been buying from them, huh?!

I agree, but 'locally owned' is far different than 'local', many miss the point.

Hi, don't even get me going about the corporatization in health care! I've always got some guy in a suit standing between me and my doctor.

@@JustaFewAcresFarm The guy in the suit is making sure the doctor is seeing enough patients to justify the doctor’s salary. And, making sure he will get his bonus. Good golly, what a country!

Sounds like you got the topic for another video here Pete 😂

@@JustaFewAcresFarm Pete, definitely would like to learn about health care for a small farmer. I still stuck in the corporate world with great health care coverage but I get to see the bills and I’m shocked when I see the prices they are charging for ER visits or other hospital services. I hope you can share some information without invading your privacy too much.

@@cathybenson5119 im down in portland Victoria 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Honor his process and find a small local producer in your area. I know I am trying to find one. We have a local guy who raises lambs so that helps.

I order baking supplies & such from Azure Standard, and our drop site coordinator has taken it upon herself to be a resource for locally available items. Is there any chance you have a local Azure drop, and could you check with that coordinator to see if they know of any local sources? Between what I found on my own & names she's given me, I can source beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken, milk, cream, chicken eggs, duck eggs, maple syrup, raw honey, and all kinds of produce. Our state also has a website where producers can be listed on the directory for a small fee (last I checked I think it was about $100/year & included "Minnesota Grown" bags to put their items in when selling to the customer) - I can search for just about anything I want, and the site navigation is OK (not nearly as good as it was a couple of years ago, not sure why they changed it). However, because I live near the state line I also checked sites for a couple of neighboring states. I don't remember finding anything for one of them - and the other one listed pretty much everything, so you searched for "chicken" you might find a small local farmer raising 500 broilers a year to sell in a 25-mile radius, or you might find a giant commercial operation with a "local retail shop" that was all about public perception rather than offering good food. On a rainy day when you don't feel like doing anything, sit down at your computer and start searching - it's worth the time & effort!

You mean sower note...?

@@marlan5470 yes I did typo on my part tech always trying to put what it thinks is best lol