How Big Is Your Garden

OK so we are supposed to eat more fruit and vegetables but in some cities we are restricted from growing them.

Can you say oxymoron?

Lets wander down to Georgia where a man was fined $5K for his home garden.

Steve Miller a Clarkston, Ga., man was fined $5,200 for growing too many vegetables in his backyard.

So just how long had he been growing these illicit plants you ask?

Miller had been growing legumes for 15 years, selling them at local farmers markets and giving them away to friends, before he was cited by the Dekalb County Code Enforcement office for the first time last September. It's illegal to garden at such a level in the zone where he lives.

OK now you are starting to think he was growing those leafy plants that you dry, roll and smoke.

Oh no, he was growing the more dangerous plants like one and a quarter acres in production with crops like celery, tomatoes, lettuce, Swiss chard, beets, cilantro, carrots and cabbage.

That's the wrong kind of green in Georgia I guess.

Maybe he had he been growing pecans, peaches and peanuts, which Georgia is famous for, he would not have been fined.

Why I Eat Junk Food

So I hear on the news and read headlines that state: "Americans still skipping fruits, veggies".



Most Americans still don't eat vegetables often enough, and fruit consumption is actually dropping a little, according to a new government report released Thursday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that last year about one-third of U.S. adults consumed fruit or fruit juice at least twice a day. That's down slightly from more than 34 percent in 2000.

No state met federal goals of three-quarters of Americans eating enough fruit, and half eating enough vegetables.

Wow what a shock and the experts are scratching their heads wondering why.

Well I did my own survey as to why we were eating less fruits and vegetables and this is what the majority of people told me:

The fruits have either been genetically engineered to last longer or they are picked green to last longer and they just plain don't taste good.

Add to that when you buy fruit and there is no taste when you bite into them so you throw them out that is expensive as fruit is not cheap.

Here's a surprise, potatoes are the favorite vegetable. Well isn't that a shock could it be they still taste like a potato.

Take something as simple as celery and carrots that have always been a mainstay on tables across America, even they have lost their taste.

With Celery you have to slather it with peanut butter to make it worth eating, and even rabbits are starting to turn up their noses at carrots so what does that tell you about taste.

Health officials have been trying to promote fruits and vegetables — especially leafy greens — as healthy alternatives to salty, fatty and sugary foods.

Maybe the promotion should be to stop importing our fruit and vegetables and go back to growing our own food. It seems strange to me that celery is shipped into the U.S. in a container on a ship from China and it is supposed to taste good.

The best tasting fruit these days is a fruit jelly made into a sandwich or on toast.

The best tasting vegetable, other than the potato, is corn popped in a large bowl salted with a huge amount of butter drizzled over it.

I long for the days when fruit and produce were shipped from the farm to the store.

Wake Up

End Of A Bad Dream 1-20-2013

Mark your calendar

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN 1-20-2013

IT'S COMING

We can see November from our house!!!!!!