Navigating Modern Farming Challenges: Balancing Crop Failures, Animal Husbandry, and Sustainable Practices

Once upon a time, we lived on a cow and a few chickens, especially if the vegetable harvest was small and famine was near. The cow has four stomachs and if she was too hot or too much water and could not harvest grass and grain, she would have to be killed. The meat would then be used, or the cow was let out into the wild and turned what she grazed into milk and muscle – at least in the spring, summer and autumn. – autumn

We got by on milk, butter, cream, eggs, meat and fish, if we were not residents of the town. We learned how to preserve and store meat and fish without freezing.

This year my potatoes had to rot and I had to harvest early. The leek likes water, so I have it all year round with the help of the greenhouse and the freezer. The snails attacked the carrots (perhaps the number of them is decreasing this year?).

How is it now? Do vegans want to eliminate our beneficial pets, or do they want to find “acceptable” meat consumption? Or do they just want us all to invest in crop farming?

If we’re going to have a decent harvest of vegetables, maybe it’s time to get out of the house and start cutting the deadly slugs that are taking over the crops. Or should we add poison?

Where our planet is going I don’t know, but fair enough it’s not that bad. But it is not so quick to eliminate our productive domestic animals, if the crop fails or is destroyed.

Mary