April 10, 2008
Food prices up 20% --
The local church I belong to runs a food pantry. If you're hungry, you can stop by and pick up a box of staples twice a month, no questions asked. Almost every day they have bread, milk and eggs. I think that a balanced meal requires veggies, too. So every week I take in the extras from my garden. Today it was lettuce and celery.
The most common thing people say is "how much?" and when they hear it is free they cannot believe there is no string attached.
For the regular person here in America, with gas at $4 a gallon and meat at $6 a pound and eggs at $2/dozen people are eating drek and it makes me sad. If only they started a small garden and kept a few chickens, we would all eat better.
I think that's my new slogan, "Take chickens out of factories and put them in backyards where they belong!"
Note brace on the hand....its still sore.
