These onions don't amount to all that much but they would be fresh and packed with all those good vitamins we had run out of during the winter. Interestingly, we still have some onions left in the refrigerator that were harvested last year and stored in the cold bedroom. So in truth, we are not really in a starvation stage. I was only pretending.
I am just saying, that if we had to provide all of our own food, May first would be the beginning of fresh vegetables. It is also notable we stored enough to get through the winter. However, almost all of the canned foods and the frozen vegetables are gone, so we would be down to onions. We were a bit short of the rest. The garden didn't give us enough carrots and the beets I bought to store, turned out to tasteless losers, which really ticks me off because they are a favorite. Our precious beets rotted in the ground due to excessive moisture. Boy, being a sustainable farmer is tough. I suspect that was a little reminder that man does not control all things.
It is intriguing to pretend we need to provide for ourselves and see if it can be done. While I do think it is possible to come up with adequate vegetables, berries and fruit, providing many real calories is not a possibility. We can't grow grains, but we did grow 18 cups of dried beans, fifty pounds of potatoes. We do not have a dairy animal and we are finding that many calories are a result of the sacred cow. The meat we can find or capture and the freezer is still partially filled. If we didn't have rice, pasta, bread or cereal, those grown beans and potatoes would not only get tiresome but would be gone in a couple of months. The grocery store is still handy and keeps my weight at a plump 210 cute pounds---well, not so cute. American Primitive Man just played on the I Pod.
In addition to the meager onions, we now also have our first flowers, so are spirits are lifted and we know spring is upon is.
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