If you are blessed to have friends and neighbors with fruit bushes or the opportunity to forage for fruit you can grow your own food. Root cuttings from berry bushes, grapevines and other perennials to grow your own food that will reproduce year after year.
We started to buy seeds in the early part of the month while doing our other shipping in our usual leisurely way. Not a big deal until suddenly we were limited to the tiny selection at places like dollar general and the local hardware store with the same small picked over boxes of seeds.
Lucky me a friend from out of state found the spinach seeds I needed to keep our family in salads for the season leaving more room in my grocery budget for adding to our winter stockpile.
A small business owner on my Facebook who I used to order my Everglades Tomato seeds from when we lived in Florida offered to make sure my seeds made it out fast if I ordered from her site Mary’s Heirloom Seeds. She has made an effort to ensure several gardeners from states with limitations receive their seeds in time for early planting. I love supporting a small business and I love it when the same business is willing to support the community in our time of need.
Some of our seeds came from walking past small displays at the local dollar store when grabbing odds and ends. These selections are small and picked over but you never know what you will find.
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