{"id":167,"date":"2012-05-05T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T02:08:16","slug":"growing-about-30-of-my-own-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/petaguy.info\/blog\/sustainability\/growing-about-30-of-my-own-food","title":{"rendered":"Growing about 30% of my own food"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rough calculation shows that I grew around 30% of the food I ate in the warmer 8 months of the past year. Most of that was from vegetables grown in Summer and then stored one way or another. I am still eating zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant and chilli from before the frosts. Raspberry jam from two weekends ago should last about a year. There is a kilo or more corn in the freezer and I made tomato puree that will do for a few weeks. If I am lucky I might be able to increase this percentage for next year with more garden beds and a better approach to growing corn and capsicum. \u00a0 What I cannot conveniently grow myself are dairy foods, cooking oil and most grains. So for the next two years I will experiment with:<\/p>\n