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Don in Colorado on March 28, 2006 - 3:34am

I tried this too, Agric, and we've still got a lot of potatoes, even though they want to sprout. And we canned 300 pounds of tomatoes.

Since I already live on a small farm, it was pretty easy to eat about 80 percent of our food locally. Especially since we have a herd of delicious Angus cattle.

But we also bought local organic pork, chicken and fish. We have a ranch co-op already in place that sells local meats.

We also have many organic orchards here, so we had lots of apples, apricots, peaches, etc. We also canned a lot of stuff from our big garden. Have you ever tried pickled green beans? Delicious ...

We still have to buy coffee, dairy products (no local dairy) sugar and flour. This year someone is starting a local wheat farm/mill so we can localize that, too.

And of course I still have to buy ice cream ... :-)

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p on March 28, 2006 - 8:53am

Tomatoes and potatoes? Don't you have a late blight problem? What varieties do you grow?

I have: I grow a very early variety that will produce nice excellent tasting tubers but is rather prone to blight (Dore). It will produce before summer though which is the main blight season. I also grow a late variety (Texla) which shows remarkable resitance to late blight. That way I circumvent the blight problem a bit. I hope.

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