5 Changes We Are Making In the Face of Rising Food Costs (Parkrose Hausfrau Friday)

[@janesheppard9467]

When I retired 10 years ago I moved and shrank my veg garden and was working toward fresh eating and a permaculture garden. All was well until the pandemic hit. Food cost have been on a roller coaster so I stocked up on what I couldn’t grow, flour, sugar, rice etc. I have now expanded my garden and add on to both the permaculture planting and annual beds and gone back the the victory type garden that I learned 40 years ago. We learn to adapt and help those that are struggling to do the same.

[@SustainablePrepping]

I really appreciate these conversations. As a feminist who wants to create some system of homemaking (but also needs and wants to bring income in to my family), I feel like the “domestic” aspects of homesteading/sustainability are too often forgotten. I truly believe that we’re going to have to embrace more traditional systems if we’re going to have a more sasable future. I don’t like the idea of women being pushed out the workplace/incoming generating opportunities, but I also know that in heterosexual households, women still make up the majority of domestic labor. We’re going to need that labor, we’re going to need gardeners, canners, preservers, seamstresses, and other domestic skills if we’re going to chart a future that’s sustainable. We won’t be able to rely on global markets. Will have to rely on more local economies. So, I just wanna see how much I appreciate this conversation from a echo feminist perspective, as the majority of videos I see online are from a very conservative traditional is perspective! I think you’re great, and I so appreciate your channel!

[@cathymadsen2930]

I so understand what you are saying. I'm not a feminist but more of a traditionalist.... as times get tougher it will be the women that will be the backbone of the local community and we will be holding families and communities together. Men in my community are getting back to more traditional roles too such as hard labour in the garden and we have all been so much happier.... The new Modern living roles will be more inclusive of everyone.... Re not being a feminist... My dad raised all his kids the same... I can change washers in taps, mow laws, use power tools, and do anything my brother can... it is just expected that everyone does every job regardless... I think that is the model we are going back to and if your good at it then you will do it...

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

It’s a sad fact that homemaking labor is not even counted in GDP. Sitting out for 5 years reduces your income/advancement potential as well as your current and retirement income. Yet we all know that without women’s productivity in the present system, the economy would collapse. The global economy only benefits the flow of capital, but not Main Street markets. I agree that redeveloping local and regional economies are the answer. But that does require personal adjustments and altering spending patterns.

[@seane6616]

Modern Feminism is just sexism

[@seane6616]

Modern Feminism is just se xism

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

The only contributions I have is to eat seasonally, plan your cooking. Today’s leftover rice is tomorrow’s refried rice for example. Unrelated to any kind of gardening is making your trips more efficient. You can visit banks, post office, grocery store and pick up the kids in one big loop.

[@dfhepner]

In the eco village idea, talk with your neighbors and help them start a garden. Maybe see if the would save kitchen scraps for you.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I should definitely ask neighbors for kitchen scraps! I had not thought of that. Thank you!

[@cathymadsen2930]

@@ParkrosePermaculture I gave my neighbours a bucket with a lid and it made it easier for them to just dump their scraps into.

[@ingeleonora-denouden6222]

Yes, this is all Permaculture! Permaculture is not only about the garden, it's a way or life

[@cathymadsen2930]

I say that creators earning an income on KZbin can upload whatever they need to upload on the monitized channel. Thanks for the explanation and I'll look forward to the Friday video. I'm from a sub tropical area in Australia and I've learnt to appreciate the fact I can grow all year round...

[@ellens2476]

Hi again, I remember you mentioned that you don’t really have your bees for honey. I find honey an absolute “goldenDollar” and often swap lots of good for our honey. Eg we don’t have nut or olive trees or a grapefruit tree and I know exactly what trees are in which (front) gardens and put little notes with a swap offer and my phone no in the letterboxes. This gives people the opportunity to think about my proposal and don’t need to respond in the spot. I have also been part of a group planting edible trees in designated council parks and that is coming to fruit now. In regards to starchy food. During our lockdown Level 4 in Auckland in Mar/Apr 2020 we could exercise locally. So I gathered buckets of acorns from oak trees and processed them. Yes it’s a lot of work but it’s free food and apart from flour I roasted some for substitute coffee - though we decided it rather tasted a bit more like hot chocolate which ain’t bad. It can be nice family sessions talking and having fun or listening to podcasts and discussing them while peeling acorns 😁. I think that may be how I discovered your great channel.

[@renamarsland9642]

Thank you so much for the practical & timely video!! I really appreciate it! I’m starting out on my own permaculture path…having seen the writing on the wall when the pandemic began…and so I bought an acre of land in May 2020. While other people were buying toilet paper in bulk, I bought seeds…and a bread maker!! 🤣. As a mom to three young children, im learning the timely skills of growing crops, mending clothes, canning, etc. I watch my purse every week….keeping a budget binder is essential….and your ideas of how to consider permaculture principles during our current state of affairs (and beyond) has given me practical ideas of how to incorporate them into my own family’s life! Thank you for all that you do!! Many blessings to you from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

[@bels2521]

We appreciate your sharing how to grow usung the permaculture method. I've learned so much from the videos. Thank you!

[@darthfiende1]

As a micro addition: broths broths broths. You can get two to three batches of stock out of the same bones, and they're a great place to throw vegetable offcuts that would otherwise be wasted.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Yes!!!! We are all about broths and stock!!

[@acrow1714]

I think this is a great idea! And I cannot imagine running more than one page. LOL

[@rosem7042]

One thing you may want to look into for raising meat is rabbits. A pair or trio of rabbits can produce a LOT of babies (and therefore meat) quickly in relatively little space. They're vegetarians, the meat tastes great, they poop ready-to-use fertilizer that doesn't smell nearly as much as chicken manure, and they are infinitely quicker and easier to process than chickens. Plus, you get nice furs that you can tan if you want. The downside is that they're a daily chore... and they're just so cute.

[@GeckoHiker]

And this is why we eat a predominantly vegetarian diet. Eggs, goat milk, some barter for bison, and the occasional misbehaving cockerel. Chickens are kind of cute but mean little roosters are not!

[@rosem7042]

@@GeckoHiker the most obnoxious roosters always taste the best.

[@kirstmlarson1]

I pressure canned most of my pumpkin last year, and I was really happy with it. It also keeps it out of the freezer, which is needed meat and other big ticket items. If you haven’t tried canning winter squash, I recommend it. I’ve been able to use it more frequently because it is ready to incorporate into meals.

[@jonigarciajg]

Yes! I love the idea of combining the channels, I didn't know that you even had the other channel!

[@jonigarciajg]

Growing your own food is also a hobby that is much cheaper than shopping, ect for entertainment

[@thanielxj11]

Oh cool ☺️ I just found this channel and I am excited for more ideas

[@maplenook]

I’m on acreage 90 minutes south of you, growing as much as feasible year round, including sheep and geese. My garden is underperforming and a month late this year. I’m going to install a tunnel and greenhouse to increase heat available next year. Highly recommend Azure Standard for bulk food.

[@ImaCreativeKiwi]

This is the first video I’ve seen from either of your channels, and I have subscribed less than a minute in. I’m looking forward to more of your videos.

[@hometohomestead4536]

This is the first of your videos I’ve ever seen and I’m so happy to have found you. We do many of the same things. I love what you shared about giving. That’s how we’ve connected with our neighbours so well.

[@ellens2476]

Hi Angela, good Tipps. I suggest to approach your neighbours re food leftovers for the chickens. I have one family who daily put a 2l ice cream container with lid on our fence and I feed it out, wash it and put on fence lid down and a rock in top. This way the chooks get way better treats than from us which is near nil in edible food. They throw away a lot of nutrition that the birds love. You might have to go to rough and compost some but that’s great, too.

[@gtromble]

Great! I didn't know about the other channel - happy you're bringing them together.

[@rayorkimrobinson2306]

I wanted to chime in and say I appreciate this. I'm glad you are integrating homemaking videos into your regular channel. Makes sense, and, at least for me, weaves together the two most major aspects of my life.

[@gregorys447]

Thank you, I enjoyed it and will enjoy content on one channel as well. Good luck 🍀

[@joannewolfe5688]

Have you switched to eating more nut protein? I make a great "meatloaf" that has no meat in it, but tastes like it does because it used finely chopped walnuts, alond with quick oats and chopped vegies. It not only have the texture of ground beef, it also has a flavor very similar to ground beef. Of course, walnuts have gone up in price as well, but other nuts (home-grown) could be substituted. I'm going to be purchasing a Heartnut tree, which is an Asian walnut that I hope to keep fairly small in my food forest. I'm also planting a lot of American hazelnuts. Being in the Northwest, you likely can get hazelnuts cheaper than we can in other parts of the country, or could grow the European varieties.

[@jonigarciajg]

I need help with timing. I live in central valley California. While we don't have to worry about cold winters we do have short springs and then really hot and dry summers.

[@welshhymnspontrhyd]

We have moved to be with our daughters family who are predominantly vegetarian, but sadly my 14 year old grandson has congenital gut issues which seem to be responding to a low FODMAP diet that means he will have to eat a different diet to the rest of us: more prep and meat to supplement shared starch elements of meals. Add a nut allergy in my younger grandson, and my daughter’s real hatred for mushrooms… it all gets a bit tricky! And just when I’d managed to get organised to grow a years worth of garlic and onions, which were the mainstay of every dish! We also have incredibly strict rules about feeding scraps to hens in the UK, ( as in nothing that has ever been in a kitchen!) so I’ll certainly be looking to collect and sprout seeds for them, and use them as active composters for all our green waste. Insect growing also going to be a thing to look into…. Going to be a busy year.

[@Snappypantsdance]

@ Mad auntie- I’m not clear on what you’re saying about the strict rules in the UK about feeding food to chickens that have been in kitchens?? Could you explain or expand?

[@welshhymnspontrhyd]

@@Snappypantsdance DEFRA who control all aspects of food production in UK ( department for environment, food and rural affairs) This is a summary from a uk pet site- “Given that things like cauliflower and cabbage are appropriate to feed to chickens, many chicken owners automatically assume that giving their birds vegetable scraps from the kitchen and possibly, compost bucket is fine too-but this is not the case. As mentioned above, DEFRA have placed restrictions on what and how chickens can be fed, in order to ensure the health of all of the flocks in the UK, and the people that might consume their meat or eggs. It is important that all chicken keepers make themselves aware of these things, and follow the DEFRA regulations-it is, after all, the law. In simple form, the DEFRA regulations state that chickens of any type-commercially kept, pets, layers, non-layers, those intended to enter the food chain and those that are not-cannot be fed kitchen scraps and waste, even if you only keep a couple of chickens and have no intention of ever earing them or selling them. The only exception to this rule applies to households that are 100% vegan, and that never have any meat or dairy products within the home (even if they are kept well away from anything fed to the chickens). This means that you cannot feed scraps of any type-even vegetables that have not come into contact with any meat or dairy products-to your own chickens, and you cannot feed them such scraps from any other source either, such as commercial kitchens, even if said kitchens produce only vegan food. Why are these rules in place? By enforcing fairly strict rules such as those outlined above, DEFRA can help to protect the health of all of the chickens in the UK, including those entering the human food chain. As well as the obvious potential issues that feeding scraps in general can cause for people that eat the eggs or meat of their flocks, keeping to the regulations will also help to ensure that your flock eats an appropriate diet of foods that are designed specifically for them, or bought just for them in the case of certain greens, and this helps to keep them robust and healthy. A great number of human foods are either unsuitable or outright dangerous for chickens, which is also worth bearing in mind-even foods as innocuous as bread are too high in salt to suit chickens, and keeping a clear boundary between your household’s human food and chicken food is important.”

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

I hope Brit’s everywhere are rebelling against that chicken kitchen scraps rule!

[@michellejarvis7878]

I'm wondering, who is going to know? If I keep chickens strictly for my own use I'm feeding them whatever I want. Chickens are omnivores as well, they will eat small insects and animals. I.E. they will eat meat from your kitchen, happily.

[@quantafitness6088]

For anyone wanting to eat more legumes but missing the umami taste: Try making tempeh! But make it from scratch with spores and all. Tastes so much better than tempeh bought in the store. (Also there are ways to make your own spores so you don't have to keep buying them)

[@angelknight7624]

Thank you for all of your insights and hard work. You are amazing and God bless.

[@zone6b481]

Rabbits are a great protein source, small space, chickens love scratching below them.

[@lauriecollins5588]

Love that you included #5!

[@alyssaduke2428]

Is there a place you recommend for getting great recipes using beans and lentils? I'd love to cook more of those, but I didn't grow up eating them and I don't have a lot of experience cooking them.

[@welshhymnspontrhyd]

I was the same, Alyssa, and my first go to for anything bean related is Rose Elliot’s The bean book. :-)

[@anne-marietuikka3036]

I would recommend learning to cook Indian food (if you like it). After learning few recipies I have been able to create new ones that fit my timetable and locally available ingredients.

[@williammcduff6531]

First off Happy Easter to you and your family. Yep food costs are going up luckily we garden also which helps quite a lot. A idea for supplementing you birds diet might be to grow some duckweed very prolific and nourishing.

[@michelleahuriri5027]

Do you farm black soldier flies for your chicken feed? Don’t know if that’s an option but I have seen videos where it has worked effectively.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Yes!! It’s on my list to expand this year. They are such a great sustainable protein source for hens.

[@adriaanbos9630]

Hi Rose, The story about your sun, reminded me of my own experience as a teenage boy in a vegetarian household. For some reason, I felt hungry all the time. This makes me wonder whether not just the food quantity but also the food quality would need to be adjusted (e.g. more proteins). I am not necessarily advocating more meat; I am largely vegetarian myself. Aat

[@LCamp-cr7fs]

That is a great topic and well worth researching. There are studies that suggest that the “new” produce varieties are lower in nutrition than those grown from seeds from the 50s. I would love to see statistics for that.

[@maplenook]

Yea teen boys need meat

[@SgtSnausages]

Half a cow and two full hogs a year. Sourced locally. Less than a mile away... but they have to be shipped (trucked) 60+ miles out and back to be processed. Bummer.

[@jameskniskern2261]

Zone Zero Friday.... :)

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

Ha! Love it!

[@trigelrice7291]

Very good video. Thank you.

[@permiebird937]

Feed costs for my ducks and hens are really worrying me. I've just started selling duck eggs this year. One project I'm about to start is raising meal worms for poultry feed. Meal worms can be eaten by humans too, the YT channel Emmymade did a series on growing and eating meal worms for "Bugmass 2018". As we get our greenhouse up and running, I may expand into Black Soldier Fly larva too. I plan to try eating my insects, but have no idea how that will go. If meal worms and Black Soldier Fly larva go well, I will start looking at raising quail for eggs and meat. Scaling up or down with quail is a fairly rapid process, making them a great meat animal for our current food inflation.

[@gravelsack7320]

May I recommend looking into duckweed? I've recently learned about it as an alternative animal feed. It has 35% protein and grows like mad. I've started up a tub of it and plan on expanding production once the weather warms up. Black soldier fly larvae are great as well. I get them in my compost bin which I keep in my duck yard, so it works as a food dispenser as they pupate and crawl out.

[@permiebird937]

@@gravelsack7320 I've been raising Azolla and Duckweed for decades. I use them for summer feed, but they don't grow in winter here. My compost bins get BSF every summer, but I want to experiment how long into winter I can keep them going in a greenhouse. These are both great elements for reducing fed costs.

[@amyjones2490]

Millions of poultry have been destroyed due to the bird flu. Scary for those of us with backyard flocks.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

It is. I’m thinking about how I’m going to protect my flock the next several weeks.

[@tinnerste2507]

I've lived with bird flue for a long time here in Germany. I have a covered run and when cases are high I don't let them free range. I've only had three potential deaths as it's hard to tell exactly if they died from the flue or not. I think things will balance out as American birds gain immunity. I've seen chickens recover from colds here, just keep your birds healthy and covered up.

[@maplenook]

Predators much bigger concern

[@robinlillian9471]

1. The extra fresh fruit & veg is nice, but a quarter acre will NOT make even one person entirely self sufficient in food. If that's what you want, move to the country. Your expenses will be lower, and you will be able to grow much more food on several acres of land. You can always transplant or take cuttings from your plants. 2. If you are overworked, give the children more responsibility. If they have reached puberty, they are certainly old enough to help produce some of the food they are eating. It will do them good.

[@GeckoHiker]

Honestly, with a permaculture homestead, we don't notice rising food prices except that we have a higher demand for our produce and eggs and earn more income as a result. Perhaps it isn't rising food costs so much as it is rising faux-food costs for manufactured products. We practice zero-waste principles and there is no place for manufactured faux-foods or consumer packaging in a $1 a day food budget. If I have to pay an extra $20 a year for bulk chickpeas (that I can't grow) it is worth it. You can save a significant amount of money by refusing to buy anything except one-ingredient foods that are purchased in bulk. Then you will have more plastic and cardboard to winterize the hen house and goat barn from the shipping materials. It's part of our permaculture life cycle. Like dried powdered eggshells going into the cabbage and greens beds and dried powdered banana peels used as an amendment for the other vegetables. A system of old screens hanging under a porch roif serves as a free drying rack for eggshells and banana peels.

[@robinlillian9471]

If you are relying so much on your freezer, consider getting a generator. You are only one serious power outage away from losing all your food.

[@patparsons218]

I have been setting things up so if the grid does go down I can can all my freezer foods. I have propane tanks and a propane burner to can on. Also i have a stockpile of lids and jars...so if it all goes down i can jar up everything in my freezer before it spoils.

[@sanctuaryplace]

watch out for that weather warfare geoengineering

[@sonjaambrosius731]

Does anybody supplement their own and the animals diet with foraging. I am not really doing it yet but since I live semi-rurally I think that might a feasible option.

[@ParkrosePermaculture]

I have thought about cutting weeds from a vacant field two doors down for the poultry, but have never gotten up the courage to go do it.

[@catherineemerson99]

We do eat Lambs' Quarters and feed them to our ducks.

[@anne-marietuikka3036]

Here in Finland, it is common to collect berries and mushrooms from forest to preserve them to be eaten throughout the year. Not sure how easily available they are in your area.

[@CampingforCool41]

Foraging is a lot of fun and while probably not going to give you all the food you need it can definitely offset costs of food you might otherwise have to buy. Not sure where you live but lamb’s quarter’s (aka wild spinach aka goosefoot) is extremely common and I cook it with olive oil and garlic salt- it’s better tasting than store bought spinach for sure. And it’s easily identifiable. Chickweed is another good forage. Deepfried dandelion flowers....there are endless options

[@sherrilynnnelson703]

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[@carolinaquanonne597]

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[@renamarsland9642]

Thank you so much for the practical & timely video!! I really appreciate it! I’m starting out on my own permaculture path…having seen the writing on the wall when the pandemic began…and so I bought an acre of land in May 2020. While other people were buying toilet paper in bulk, I bought seeds…and a bread maker!! 🤣. As a mom to three young children, im learning the timely skills of growing crops, mending clothes, canning, etc. I watch my purse every week….keeping a budget binder is essential….and your ideas of how to consider permaculture principles during our current state of affairs (and beyond) has given me practical ideas of how to incorporate them into my own family’s life! Thank you for all that you do!! Many blessings to you from Nova Scotia 🇨🇦