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Those of us living in suburbia, small towns, or with a summer home in the country can also grow some of our own food. It yields better and fresher food than you buy at the supermarket and teaches the kids a good work ethic.
Here at the compound, we have always had a 100’x 100′ fruit and vegetable garden, this year we will actually plant 1/2 acre of food items. Seedlings have already been started indoors to be transplanted in late April. Our apple, pear and peach trees, were trimmed in the fall after harvest and will be in bud come May. Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, beans carrots, melons, cabbage are all easy to grow. Like our non-Jewish country neighbors, we can and freeze and fill the cold storage with root vegetables each summer, but this year will plan on a larger harvest for some of the extended family.
I have a 1/2 interest in several steers being raised by a local farmer. This summer, the Shochet will come from NYC and slaughter and process the animals, the farmer keeps the hides, my non-Jewish neighbor (owner of the other 1/2 interest) gets the hindquarters and my family will kasher and break down the forequarters and freeze in appropriate cuts.