peaches

Growing on a farm makes you more resourceful. You can also grow part of your food. You can also forage. I thing being poor in a big city is awful, being poor in the countryside is more bearable.

Depends on the country I suppose. If you have adequate summer weather and a bit of garden, those tomatoes grow themselves. Bread is relatively cheap where I grew up and my grandmother even made her own bread. And lard would come from self grown pig that would be split with several families. It is not the same to live in a big city where you have to buy everything, and be in the country or small towns, where you can supplement with own grown stuff.

Nowadays people buy everything, they have no idea how to grow some veggies, care for some chicken, can food for winter. Out summers and autumns were full of canning after schools and my parent’s work hours, or weekend, vacations. You would buy the veggies when they were cheap in the markets, or grow yourself, if you had some land( we had a small garden, but sometimes we would find some strips of land outside the town via friends and colleagues of my parents, where we could grow more onions, garlic, beans, etc.)

And we had community. If you had surplus, you would share it. With a good community is easier to survive and thrive.

Also a big topic, people don’t know anymore how to eat seasonal. I have no problems eating cruciferous, root vegetables and potatoes the entire winter. In summer, if I get good tomatoes, I eat a lot of them. But I don’t buy them in winter. They taste like cardboard.

Really? I went into the first product, some cast iron pan snd did not see any mentioning of the origin. e.g. https://cookinglife.eu/products/cast-iron-frying-pan-cast-iron-o-25-cm-without-non-stick-coating

Spain

Wild garlic ( Bärlauch in German)

Yeah, well Spain does change its hour still. I also hope we stop thin nonsense, but no need to involve religion into this.

Yes, that is what I would have used, but it is difficult to select the text from the phone. Thanks again for the effort.

Thanks for translating

Dealing with incompetents and sociopaths working in big corporations and trying to keep sane.

Oh yes, the Swiss have a f-ing Trash Police!! My sister lives there, and I am sorry for her. I hope I never “have to” live there. I am generally happy in Germany, just the social interactions are harder to make. Luckily I found my tribe with Spanish people. But as I said, real community is hard to make here. But I think it is a specific south German issue, they are closed off even for Germans from other parts of the world. Anyway, they are missing out some nice food and good jokes.

Yes, I also live like this now. If feels like a village. I don’t have the small community vibe though. It is not easy to make community in a south German city 😆 And there are always some neighbours that don’t like the wild style garden and prefer that you trim the outside bushes every so often. I wish people would mind their own business and help the neighbours, not make their life miserable just because they have different approaches than them.

Big crowded cities. As a young person I loved the idea of big cities with so much stuff going on. More than 20 years later I was cured of it by living in big cities and I yearn for more solitude and small communities.